Evening star., 1933-06-18
SCHOOLBOy OWENS
IN AMAZING FEATS
Does 9.4 for Century, 220 in
20.7 and Broad Jumps "a
Feet 9 So Inches.
BY WILLIAM WEEKS,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

~ HICAGO, June l7.-Three
[ amazing performances by
~ bronze Jesse Owens of East
Technical High of Cleve-
Observation-Disclosures of which
any college athlete would have
been proud - completely domi-
mated day Of record smashing as
his school won the twenty-ninth
annual University of Chicago in
terScholaStiG track and field cham
pionship meet at Soldier Field to-
day.
Nine records were affected one way
or another, but the work of the Cleve-
land Negro made spectators, officials
and athletes alike almost forget every
thing else.
He started by equalling the world
record Of "a seconds in the 100-yard
dash Taking time out from the broad
Jump. he sped over the cinders in POT
for go yards-then returned to the
jumping pit for another record per-
East Tech. paced by Owens 80 points,
ran up total of 81 to win the team
title. North High of Wichita, Kans.,
had 35 for second, and Fort Collins,
Colo, three-time winner of the meet,
landed third with 80 Ill points Cher
okee, Iowa, scored "a for fourth. All
told, "a teams broke into the scoring.
OWENS got what help he needed
~ from Davis Albritton, who won
the high Jump with an effort Of
feet inches, and finished third in the
l20-yard high hurdles. The East Tech
team picked up its other s points by
finishing second in the half-mile relay.
The astonishing Negro tied Frank
Wykoff's record in the century and ran
the fastest schoolboy 220, to set q new
record. His broad-jump mark surpassed
by 7 inches the meet and national
interscholastic record established in
1924 by Eddie Hamm of Lonoke, Ark,
and later of Georgia Tech.
Ranking next to Owens came Ross
Bush of Sunset High, Dallas, Tex After
John Graves of Cherokee, Iowa. had
broken the meet record for the half
mile by winning the first section of the
ran almost by himself In the second
section to win in 154.4, better by six
tenths of a second than the accepted
national prep mark set in 1912 by Ted
Meredith. Later he returned to win
the third section of the 440-yard run
in the creditable time of 49.8 seconds.
In the first section of the quarter
mile, Ralph Brown of Kansas Voca-
tional, Topeka, Kans., burned up the
strip in 493 seconds to clip a tenth Of
a second of the meet record set by Ivan
Fuqua, now of Indiana. running four
years ago for Brazil, Ind, High School
THE national prep and meet records
i for the 120-yard high hurdles fell
before Phil Cope of Classen High,
Oklahoma City. Winning with ease. the
Oklahoma youngster sliced over the bar
riers in 14.7 seconds, knocking two
tenths of a second from the former
Okla, In 1882. Cope later finished third
in the 22o lows, which went to Phil Do
hertv of haywood, ILL.,, in 237 seconds.
Raymond Noble of the unsuccessful
defending champions from Arkansas
City. Kans.. did the only record break
ing in the field events. He pole vaulted
over IS feet, Al inches, to replace the
Is feet, 3 3-16 inches accomplished by
Lowell Allen Of Salem, Ohio, in 1928.
East Tech of Cleveland. which landed
second, in spite OF a great anchor leg
by Owens, in the half mile relay today,
Yesterday set new meet record Of
1908. Ottawa. Kans. won today In
1:31. partly due to interference Owens
suffered on the last turn. North High
OF Wichita set the other new record,
5:263 for the mile relay, in the other
event decided yesterday