The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-17
use. Tops
Title Meet
Indiana u. Looms a Threat
to Trojans in u. S.
Track Carnival.
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY
United Press stan Correspondent

CHICAGO. June IT. = Two ma
tional track and field champion
ships weee at stake today in the
Worlds Fair athletic carnival at
Soldier Field. Chicago's gigantic
lake front stadium.
After a day of trials, in which
almost 1000 athletes from nearly
every state in the union partici-
pated, the stage was set for the
high school finals this afternoon
and the college finals tonight.
The preliminaries, run off Friday
on a loose cinder path between in
termittent showers, stamped South
ern California as the favorite for
the collegiate championship, and
East Tech, Cleveland, as the most
formidable contender for the high
school crown.
Southern California, already VIC
toriouS in the 1. C. A. A. A. A.
championships at Cambridge three
weeks ago, led all other schools in
qualifierS with ten in the eleven
events in which trials were held.
Louisiana State and Michigan
placed seven each. and Indiana had
six. Stanford, which had been ex-
pected to vie with Southern Califor-
MIA for the title, qualified only four
and seemed hopeleSsly out of the
championship competition
HOLSTERS in Features
The Trojans placed a man in
every event except the discus. ham,
mer throw and broad jump, and
qualified two men in the 100-yard
dash and quarter-mile.
The feature events are expected
to be the quarter mile duel between
Ablowich, Southern California:
Hardin, Louisiana State, and Fuqua,
Indiana: the half-mile race between
Glenn Cunningham, Kansas, and
Charlie Hornbostel, Indiana: the
mile battle between Cunningham.
Ray Sears of Butler and Woolsev.
Illinois; the pole vault competition
between GRADER, Southern CaIifor-
MIA, Miller and Duncan. Stanford.
and the high jump between Marty.
Fresno State: Ward, Michigan, and
Van OSdel and McNaughton, South
ern California.
Keller, Ward Fail
The biggest surprises of the trials
were the elimination Of Jack Keller,
Ohio State star, from both hurdle
races, and Willis Ward, Michigan
Negro, from the 100-yard dash and
120-yard high hurdles. Keller, who
tied the worlds record of al Sec
onds for the high hurdles in the Big
Ten meet month ago and who has
bettered the worlds mark of twenty
three seconds for the low hurdles.
stumbled on the seventh hurdle in
the 120 low hurdle trials and fell.
He injured his knee in the fail and
was Shut out when he ATTEMPTED to
run the low hurdles later. Ward
knocked over three hurdles and was
disqualified, and was outrun in the
100-yard dash.
Ralph Metcalfe, Marquette Negro.
won his two sprint trials, breezing
IN 9.9 for the 100 and 21.9 for thu
22O, and promises to score a double
victory tonight.
Indiana was expected to give
Southern California a real battle
for the title The HOLSTERS are de-
tending champions. Fuqua in the
22O and 440-yard events, Hornbostel
IN the mile and half mile, Busbee in
the discus, Biddinger in the ham
mer, Watson in the two-miIe and
crouch in the low hurdles are In
dlana's chief poit threats.
Several other Hoosier state ath-
letes will be in action today Duane
PurVis of Purdue qualified in the
Javelin and Fribley of DePauw in
the quarter mile.