The Washington times., 1935-06-01

College
Meet
BY GENE LORICK

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 1.
If Uncle Sam wants to win the
Olympic track and field games in
1896 all he has to do is send the
Southern California team to Der.
lin.
And what a team!
Twenty strong, these men of
Troy came 5000 miles across the
continent to participate in the
elimination trials of the fifty.ninth
annual intercollegiate association
of amateur athletes of America
championships, but as far as they
were concerned, there were no
Examinations.
All twenty were back in action
this afternoon for the finals, and
victory for the Trojans was a
cinch, their seventh victory in
eleven years.
One old record fell and there
were thrills galore in the trials but
this faded before the combined eff
forts of the Trojans.
Sixteen men were seen in action
yesterday, and all sixteen qualified
for the finals. Four others are
entered in events which did not
require pruning.
The East had looked to Harvard
or Cornell to Stave off another
western triumph but the Crimson
and Cornell qualified but five
men each.
California Second
California was second to South
ern California, in the number Of
qualifierS with 8, Pittsburgh had 8
and Stanford S. Bates, Columbia,
Manhattan and Pennsylvania had
3 each, Bowdoin, Dartmouth,
Holy Cross, Maine, Michiga
State, New York University, SYRIA
cuse, U. C. L. A., William and
Mary and Yale, 2 each, and Bos-
ton College, M. I. T., Rutgers and
Williams one each.
The new mark was established
by Ben Johnson, dusky Columbia
filler, who stepped the 100 meters
in los seconds, to eclipse the old
mark made in 1888 by a tenth Of
a second. The record, made with
a three-mile following wind was
allowed. A few minutes later
George Anderson, California, fav.
ored to show the way, won his
Semifinal heat without any wind
in the same time credited to John
son. In his trial heat of the 200
meters, johnson was clicked in 81
seconds, a tenth faster than the
inter collegiate mark, but it was
disanowed due to the wind.
The same east breeze bothered
javelin throwers and shot putterS
as they worked into the teeth of
it. At that, John Mottram, Of
Stanford, hurled the spear 213
feet / inch. Almost nine feet
ahead of Wilho Wink of Rutgers.
Southern California looks to
pick up first and second in the
10 high hurdles. Both Roy
Staley and Phil Cope won their
Semifinal heats.
In the longer races, Gene
Venzke, of Pennsylvania, has the
inside track. He qualified easily
for the 800 in 1858, without ex'
tending himself, and seems un-
challenged in the $500 meters.
In that heat Ray Cartwright, Of
Southern California, gave an eX-
ample of Trojan fortitde. With
the race but a quarter completed
he was spiked in the heel during
a brush for the pole, and he lost
his shoe.
Undaunted, he continued in his
bare foot and nosed out Harold
Connolly, of Pittsburgh to take
third place and qualify.
James Lu Vale, of University
of California at Los Angeles, who
won the 400 meters in 1888 and
set a record of 46.9 seconds, is
certain of another victory. His
time of All, in the first heat.
was nine-tenths Of a second
faster than Eddie O'Brien, Of
Syracuse, who won the second
heat.
The only event in which the
East dominated was with the
hammer throw. Perhaps that was
because they don't throw the
hammer on the West Coast.