The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-12-22
TONY BROWN WILL SEEK REVENGE ON GUS
Four Great Track and Field Stars Of
1888 Expected to be Greater in 1884
Cunningham, sonthron, Brown
and MstcaIfs Sure to
Have Big Year
ny JIMMIE DoNAHuE


ny JIMMIE DONAHUE
Two great distance runners, IN
eastern pole vault sensation who
threatens to break the strsnglehold
Of the west on this event, and q great
negro Splinter were produced during
the track season Of 1888. These four
Will be even better in "a.
No sooner had the indoor season
started than out Of the prairies Of the
west came Glenn Cunningham, KAN
sas University miller. who stepped on
the boards to herald a brilliant year,
he defeated Gene venzke, PENIS SEN
sational distance runner: Carl Coan
OF Penn, Glen Dawson Of Tulsa. and
Frank Crowley Of Manhattan.
cunningham continued his brilliant
distance running when he sped to .
new American record in the mile run
OF the National Collegiate A. A. track
and field championships at Chicaro.
HIS time was 4 minutes 90 seconds.
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Bill Bonthron Of Princeton was the
other great distance runner revealed.
Though his feat Of winning both the
8OC and 1500-meter runs ct the I. g.
4.A meet at Cambridge was sensa-
tional. his greatest glory came in de-
feat.
Bill tangled will, Jack Lovelock,
New Zealand student at Oxford, In
tie Oxford Cambridge and Prince
ton Cornell dual track meet.
When the boys finished the mile.
both had broken Jules LadoumeRues
world record OF 1902. Loyelock,s
time In beating Bontlaron was 4:07.6.
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Keith Brown was the pole vault
sensation. This Yale sophomore start
ed out the year with q new world
indoor record In the K. OF 6. meet ct
New York, clearing the bar at II feet
IL inches. At the Penn RELAYS he
set new meet record OF II feet 4
inch.
Bill GRADER, Southern CALIFORNIA;
great vaulter, put in = claim for world
honors when he cleared IL feet -.
inches early In the year.
The indoor season saw Ralph Met
calfe, Marquette university,s great in
door runner, pass everything in shoes
IN the sprint races Mctcalfe was
Just Is good on the cinders, too. win
ming the 220-yard and l0O-yard DASH
e ct the National Collegiate and the
lOO-yards Of the Drake Relays. IN
the National Collegiate 200 he set q
new world mark of 20.4 seconds.
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Inc Penn Relays saw one new world
record. Manhattan colleges distance
medley relay squad set 3 new mark
OF 1914 in the 2h-mile event. Jack
Keller. Ohio State hurdler, came
within one-tenth Of . second OF equal
Ing the world l20-yard high hurdles
mark when he heaved himself over
the barriers In :14.3. He came back
IN the Big Ten meet to best the world
mark by one-tenth Of . second.
The real competition Of the year. OF
course. came In the /. g. "A and Ma
ttonal Collegiate meets.
In the former, held at Cambridge.
Mass, Southern California couned
Tor the sixth time since 1925. win
ming only one event-the llO.meter
high hurdles-the Trojans captured
enough points In the other events to
nose out their arch rivals, Stanford,
4o-42. Three eastern teams were tied
Tor third place, with 10 points each,
They were Cornell, Yale and New
York University.
Two meet marks were set In this
show when John Lyman, nuge orau-
FORD weight man, put the shot So
feet 81 inches, and George spitx.
lanky New York U. jumper, cleared
. feet 6h inches In the high jump.
The big upset Of the meet was the
defeat Of Joe McCluskey, Fordhams
iron man Of distance races and
steeplechases. Little Jack Ryan Of
Manhattan left Joe behind Ia the
3000-meter run.
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The National Collegiate champion
ship In Chicago wasn't decided until
the last event-the pole vault. A sur
prise team, Louisiana State, won this
meet through the brilliant running Of
Glen Hardin, who flashed to . new
record In the 220-yard low hurdles,
and = new meet record IN the 40
yard run.
Louisiana State was leading South
ern California, - points to 81. q the
pole vault came up. L. g. U. needed
. win or . tie to win the meet title,
and Matthew Qordy came through.
He tied Bill GRADER, Southern Cali
fornia's champion vaulter, ct IL feet.
In addition to Hardin's world mark
In the 220-yard low hurles, three other
world records were estahlished-
Charley Hornbostel Of indiana set 4
new time Of 1909 In the oe0-yard
run: Jack Torrance Of Z. 8. q. bested
the 16-pound shot mark with . toss
Of 81 feet 10 inches, and Ralph Met
Gales 20.4 seconds In the 220 bested
the previous mark Of :2O.6 made by
Roland Locke Of Nebraska In 1925.