Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-06-17
Thru The
SPORT MIRROR
By RUSSELL j. COWANS

\ Field as in former years. MetcaIf,
viii compete in the 100 and 40
yard dashes.
Metcalfe's chief competition vii
come from Jimmy Johnson and
Willis Ward Johnson finished see
ond 10 the Marquette flyer in his
great races last year Ward was
close second 70 Metcalfe in In,
Drake Relay i0O-yard sprint this
spring.
| Metcalfe looms the winner in
both short distance races with
Johnson providing he Is eligible
second and Ward third.
Jimmy Luyallc. University of
Southern California al Los Anee-
les because Of his great running
at the recent National lntercolleg
late A meet at Cambridge recent
ly. is fayorite TO win The 40
Willis Ward. University Of Mich
igan's one-man track team. will
have to beat Howard spencer. &C.
neva College. 10 win the running
high jump John Brooks. l'niyer-
sity of Chicago. is layoritc to win
the running broad jump with
Ward second Ward Will finish see
ond TO Jack Keller if he runs the
high and low hurdles
Leroy Dues is the best shot put
ter in the middle west He has
been near the so foot mark sew
eral times this year. His chief ri
val will be Harper. University O
Southern California who won tn
National intercollegiate "A me,
MN M
Every great Negro sprinter fro
s. Howard Drew on down TO Raly
l. Metcalfe has been able 10 make
/ creditable showing in the bro
TO jump. Several of them were Am
UT lean champions and one was wo
u and Olympic champion.
ne Ned GOurdian GA "A bright =,
en- mer day in 1922 ran the hund
ca yard dash I'm 10 seconds and n
n went to the jumping PIT a
Z. broke record of rs years dun
- ton by leaping 20 feet 3 inches
: his first attempt.
y Howard Drew and Sol Butte
0 who preceded Gourdian in nation
Ial prominence. were capable jumI
ers. Butler was American champ
ion for several years,
| DeHart Hubbard. first Negro 4
win an Olympic title. climaxed hii
IUniversnty of Michigan athletic
career by breaking the world's
recording in the broad jump at the
| 1926 National Collegiate Associa-
ton meet Hubbard leaped p feet
10 3-S inches.
Willis Ward has done - feet 4
inches and has not been training
more than four months in the
event. Ralph Metcalfe and Jimmy
Johnson can also hurl their 1.-the
bodies for distance in the running
broad jump.
Eddie Tolan is the exception
The olympic champion concentrate
ed his athletic activities on the
short dashes. Eddie proved he was
right at the Tenth Olympiad, win.
ming both tho 100 and 200 meter
runs from the cream of the sprint
world.
%*%%#
Looking back through the must'
records of the Detroit Stars, W.
fail TO find a series of games e
> equal the series between the Chi
, cago American Giants and the De
troit stars which closed al th'
: TIamtramck Stadium Monday.
Nowhere in the record is Their
game where IA runs were mad
in any one inning This also !
, good with other teams In the lea
, que. And the record score OF %
! I'm Chicago's favor sets up anothe
record. II is the worst defeat eve
administered to the Detroit team
q While we have no records OF a
the teams in the league. we ar
Z firmly convinced that II is III
highest score ever run mp againi
b. a league team.
A And then take the total scoi
I for the series. Fifty-nine rur
O were made by the Chicago team
four games. They also accumula
ed Ga hits. Both of these can :
4 on records as far as we can fin
Then there were the II erro
n contributed by the local club.
q Buford's five misplays almo
Q equaIled the remarkable perforr
4 ance Of Rodger Peckngpjaul
4 while the former Cleveland ma
p ager was member of the was
ington club i'm the 1925 world Sc
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