Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-08
BIG SEVEN MEET
FILLS A BIG NEED
Outstanding Men on All of
Teams-May Determine
Eastern Champ.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.

n TEw YORK. May s.-Havins
nj resigned themselves to seeing
the I. c. A. A. A. A. track and
field trophy go west this sea-
son for the fourteenth time in IS
years. the ivy League" composed Of
seven of the oldest Eastern institu-
tons of higher learning. is conduct
ing its own private athletic party
this week in the clustered confines Of
Palmer Stadium at Princeton.
This by no means implies that any
"sour grapes" are festooned to the
situation or that any move Is on
foot to undermine the traditional
championship meet the latter part Of
this month at Cambridge.
All seven universities concerned
Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Har-
ward, Pennsylvania, Princeton and
Yale-already have banded them
selves together in nearly all major
sports. The decision to hold their
own private track meet is natural
outgrowth of this community spirit.
1t also is a welcome addition to
the Eastern program, heretofore lack
ing anything but an indirect means
of deciding the best sectional track
team, because of the Far Western
domination Of the I. G. A. A. A. A.
championships.
Keen Competition Due.
TT SHOULD be q holly contested
meet. Cornell has a well-balanced
team which may rule the ia
vorite, but Columbia looks to have
the spirits sewed up. Harvard Is
we'll fortified, especially in the hur-
dies; Yale has the versatile Keith
Brown to tackle the high Jump, as
well as pole vault. and Pennsylvania
can depend on Gene Venzke in the
middle distances
With Manhattan, I. c. "A indoor
title holder, outside the ivy" fold,
Saturdays meet will actually do no
more than decide the best all-around
team among the Big Seven" who
monopolized the outdoor champion
ships until the Western tidal wave
ingulfed them.
Since 1920, Yale has been the only
member of the Eastern "Old Guard"
to break the succession Of I. c. A.
A. A. A. triumphs by California, Stan
ford and Southern California. The
Ellis broke through in 1924 and were
runners-up last year, but it's gener-
ally one-two finish for the native
sons.
Trojans Back In Saddle.
4 FER years lapse Southern Cali
n fornia will be back to pick up
where the Trojans left of with
their fourth straight team victory in
1888. Dean Cromwell's latest aggre-
CATION Of track and field stars mopped
up Stanford last Saturday and figures
to be pressed in the Invertebrates
mainly by the University of Cali
fornia, ably coached by Brutus Ham
nton.
Stanford lost more than so per
cent of its team through the gradu-
alton OF John Lyman and Gordon
(Slinger) Dunn. This pair picked I'D
ID points in two weight events as the
Indians romped of with their fourth
I. C. A. A. A. A. title at PHILADELPHIA.
The leading survivors of the cham
pionship team are Capt. Allen Black
man, 440 winner: Sam Klopstock,
hurdler. and John Mottram, runner
up in the javelin. These three &C.
counted for II points and should get
enough help to keep Stanford in the
running, anyway.
Southern California, with few ex-
ceptions, will bring on a team of ath-
letes new to Eastern track followers.
Bill GRADER, who scared to a new
world pole vault record recently. still
is a student at U. S. c., but is no
longer eligible for varsity COMPETE
ton.
CALIFORNIA; sprint ace, George An
derson, is being carefully groomed for
the 1886 Olympics, and ranks with the
fastest dash men in the country, in
Guiding Jesse Owens of Ohio State.
Eulace Peacock of Temple, Herman
Neugass Of Tulane and Ben johnson
of Columbia.