Evening star., 1933-01-23
"A. A. j. SECRETARY
| NAMES j. 5. STARS
East Leads in Weight and
Distance Events, Midwest
in Sprints.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
n yEW YORK, January 23.-s
M The East in the weight
i Y events and distance runs;
the Midwest in the shorter
track events, particularly the
sprlntS; and the South and Far
West giving strong argument to
all the champions, but producing
few. Such is the lineup of the
Nations track and field stars as
shown by the all-America team
selected by Daniel J. Ferris, Sec
retary- treasurer of the Amateur
Athletic Union.
From all over the country, 80 star
performers were selected as the all
America aces for the 35 events with
the leaders in metric races being picked
for the first lime. Three of them we're
picked for two events each and one,
big Leo Sexton of New York, holder
OF the worlds Shotput record and the
Olympic title, filling three places.
nF THIS list, IA Eastern athletes
~ occupied II places; the Midwest
had eight performers for 10 events:
the South had three men and the Far
West five. all in single events. Sexton,
being picked for the shotput and the
35 and Sc pound weight throws, gave
the East big edge in the weight
events while stars from the Atlantic
Seaboard were chosen fer all the dis
tance runs from the mile to the mara
then with the exception of the 5000
of r.1n rr-1i ian 81 Do1, L
Of San Francisco, and the 10000 meters,
which was given to Tom Ottey of
Michigan State.
Two Midwesterners divided the sprint
places. Ralph Metcslfe being chosen at
100 yards and Eddie ToIan at 100 and
200 meters.
WITH three exceptions, national or
w Olympic champions were picked
for all the places Ferris selected
Pete Zaremba of New York University
and Ken Churchill. San Francisco,
for their consistent hemmer and javelin
throwing performances and put in
"Blazin' Ben Eastman of Stanford at
the half mile.
The AE-America Team.
go yards. Emmett TOPPING, Loyola
New Orleans: 100 Yards, Ralph Met
calfe, Marquette; 100 and 200 meters.
Eddie Tolan, Detroit; 800 yards Hor-
ace Whitney Colgate; 440 yards Bill
Carr. Pennsylvania; eco yards, Alex
Wilson, Notre Dame: $50 yards Ben
Eastman, Stanford: 900 yards, Dale
Let's. Illinois A. c.
Mile, Gene Venzke. New York A. c.:
5000 meters. Ralph Hill, Olympic Club,
San Francisco; 10000 meters. Tom
Ottey. Michigan State: 10 miles. Paul
Munoy. Nativity C. c., Philadelphia:
Is miles Albert Nicholson Millrose A.
A., New York; 20 miles, William Stein
er, New York; marathon, Clyde Martak,
Baltimore; cross-country and steeple-
chase, Joe McCluskey, Fordham: 3-mile
walk, Harry Hinkel, Los Angeles A. c.:
7-mile walk, John Knackstedt, German
American A. c.. New York.
Running broad jump, Ed Gordon.
Iowa City; running high jump George
Spitz, New York: running hop. step and
jump, Sidney Bowman. Louisiana State,
pole vault, Bill Miller, Olympic Club.
San Francisco.
16-pound shotput, 35-pound weight
throw and 56-pound weight throw, Leo
Sexton. New York A. c.; l6-pound
hammer throw, Pete Zaremba, New
York University; discuss throw, John
Anderson, New York A. c.; javelin
throw, Kenneth Churchill, Olympic
Club; decathlon, James Bausch, Kansas
City A. c.
70-yard high hurdles, Percy Beard.
New York A. c.; 120-yard high hurdles
and 220-yard low hurdles, George
Sailing, Iowa: 40O-meter hurdles, Glenn
Hardin, Louisiana State.