Evening star., 1937-03-12
TRACK ACESLURED
BY FIVE BIG MEETS
|. c. "A Games in New York
Tomorrow Night Biggest
Week End Show.
By the Associated Press.

n YEW YORK. March 12.-1t's
nj going to take . lot Of long
distance getting around to
coved the track and field do
ings this week end.
The action, largely collegiate, is
spreading over its biggest front Of the
season.
Collegiana presents three all-star
cards, headed by the classic I. c. "A
games in New York Saturday and in
cluding the Big Ten proceedings at
Chicago tonight and Saturday and the
Midwestern intercollegiate at Naper-
vile, ILL.,, Saturday Outside the COL
legiate fold there's the annual Maple
Leaf games at Toronto tonight, fea-
turing the headline mile duel OF the
week. with Glenn Cunningham and
Archie San Romani among the entries,
and the 9lst Highlanders A. C. games
at Hamilton, Ontario, Saturday.
San Romani's entry is on file for
both Toronto and Naperville At
Toronto, in addition to Cunningham,
he will find New York's veteran Joe
McCluskey, Elmo Pentti of New York,
Bill Daley Of Detroit and the Canadian
champion, Art Clarke, in the field.
Pitt in Midwest Meet.
A NAPERVILLE, where some 300
athletes will see action, his prin-
cipal threat will be Abe Rosenkrantz,
the Michigan Normal ace Pitts
burgh's crack running squad, headed
by Olympic Champion Johnny Wood
ruff and 1896 I. c. "A sprint cham
pion, Art Thomas, also will be at the
Midwestern wars.
The I. c. "A games in Madison
Square Garden has hot team fight,
with Columbia and Manhattan IA
vorites, and Princeton, Cornell, Dart
mouth and Harvard regarded as
threats. Most OF the. seasons top
sprinters will be on hand, along with
the years stars at 500 yards.
A. A. U. Champion Ben johnson
from Columbia Teammate Herb
Weast, who turned in disputed world
record time for so yards last week; the
Syracuse Olympic dash man, Marty
Glickman, and Dartmouths hurdler-
sprinter captain, Jack Donovan head
line the sprint field
Eddie O'Brien, Syracuse Olympian
and the seasons leading 60O-yard per-
former In point Of times posted; Dick
Gill Of Boston College, and Ham
Hucker, Cornells returned athletic
star, top the 600-yard field Burns,
Manhattan's flyer at 1000 yaros,
headlines the mile entry list. The
meet will attract around 400 athletes.
Stars in Big Ten Games.
THE Big Ten tussling, beginning
with trials today, fnds 1ndiana's
iron men, Don Lash. Tommy Deckard
and Jimmy Smith, going out for both
the mile and 2-mile. Charles Fenske
Of Wisconsin is a big gun in the mile,
while Neree Alix Of Chicago and Bill
Staehle Of Michigan are rated highly
in the 2-mile. although that event
generally is regarded as the personal
property Of Hoosiers Lash and Deck
ard.
In addition to the renewal Of the
San Romani-Cunningham clash at q
mile, the Toronto meet offers several
others Of the United States top per-
formers Torontos Sam Richardson,
| who is U. S. A. A. U. broad Jump
champion, will take on Temple Uni
versity's Eulace Peacock, sprinter and
jumper, in both his specialties. New
York's Jim Herbert, the years find"
at distances from 500 yards to three
fourths Of a mile, is favored in an
international field at 600 yards. Olym-
pic Champion Cornelius johnson Of
Los Angeles and Al Threadgill of Tenn
pie battle in the high jump.