Evening star., 1938-06-05
NEW MILE MARK
IS SET BY BORCK
Woodruff, Woodstra Score
Doubles in Title Games
Drenched by Rain.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor,

records, rare track and field combi-
nation, fell in large quantities today
as Southern California's invincible
Troians spread-eagled the field in the
SD intercollegiate A. A. A. A. cham
pionship meet at Randalls Island
Stadium.
Three meet marks were shattered,
among them the classic 1-mile record
that has stood for rs years, and two
others were equaled in dazzling bat
tie for individual titles that accom-
panied Southern California's one
sided team triumph.
Dean Cromwell's Trojans. picking
up where they left off in 1885, had
not the slightest trouble recapturing
the team trophy. They Tailed in 10
OF the Is events, nearly doubled the
point score of their nearest rivals,
Michigan State. and won the cham
pionship for the eighth time since
1929. All told, Pacific Coast colleges
have Won IS of the 16 I. C. A. A. A. A.
meets in which they have participated
since 1921.
Southern California tailed 47h
points, Michigan State, "a, and the
University of California, 22Ha, to make
It 1-2-3 for the invading forces from
the West Pittsburgh, 1887 victor, led
the Eastern brigade by finishing
fourth with 2o1a points. Manhattan
was fifth with Is points, Harvard
sixth with II points. with the others
scattered as follows:
Other Point Scores.
Princeton, 1012; New York Univer-
sity, 10; Rhode Island State, 8;
Columbia, 812; Cornell and Penn
State, 7 each Yale, 6la; Brown, S;
Boston College and Maine, 4 each;
Syracuse and U. c. L. A, 3 each:
Fordham and Colgate, 2 each; West
Virginia and Pennsylvania, / each.
Double triumphs for Long John
Woodruff, Pittsburgh's great Negro
runner, and Michigan States crack
hurdler, Harvey Woodstra, shared the
y individual spotlight with the record
breaking mile victory of Edgar Howard
Borck, slender Manhattan College
Star, as a series of amazingly fine per-
formances was unfurled in the rain
before scarcely 1000 spectators hud-
died in the stands.
Borck, making his first start in the
/ c. A. A. A. A. mile, came from be-
mind with beautifully timed last
lap flnish to beat Alex Northrop, Har-
Varos favorite, by 20 yards and wipe
OUT the classic record of 4:14.4 set by
John Paul Jones of Cornell at Cam
prloge In 1913. Borck clipped a half
second from the long-standing mark
Oldest on the meets books, when he
was clocked in 4:139.
Jones performance was a world
record rs years ago, when the Cor
nellian was king Of the college milers,
but Borcks time this afternoon on a
ran-soaked track was barely within
mailing distance of the present world
outdoor standard of 1904, held by
England's Sydney Wooderson, or the
indoor record Of 4:044, ste last winter
by Americas Glenn Cunningham.
Borck Presses Woodruff.
Borck had enough stuff left later to
run 1888 half mile and give Wood
run the only serious challenge as the
long-striding Negro completed his
second straight double" Long John
proved equal to the occasion, however,
by pulling away to a 2-yard victory
over Borck in the 880-yard final, timed
IN 1;52.5, after equaling the meet
\ record Of Al seconds in capturing the
440-ysrd race.
Woodruff thus duplicated a feat
achieved by only one other athlete in
I. c. A. A. A. A. history. Ted Meredith
OF Pennsylvania, who turned the trick /
In 1856, is the only other athlete to
win both the 44o and $50 in successive
years.
Woodruff's time for the 440 eouaIed
the meet record set in 1892 by Little
BIZ Carr Of Pennsylvania and du-
plicated by Long John himself last
year.
Woodstra's timber-topping double
was marked by record-equaling
performance. The rangy Michigan
State senior upset Southern Califor-
MAS favorite. Jim Humphrey, to cap
ture the 120-yard high hurdles in i4.4
seconds. This equaled the meet rec
ord set by Earl Thomson of Dart
mouth in 1920, at which time it was
o world record. Woodstra came from
behind to take the 22o-yard low hur-
dies f1nal In 1913 seconds, beating
George Anderson Of California by a
etx1de as well as two other Far West
eTners.
i Thurber, Moclair Get Marks.
\ The remaining two record smash
ers were Delos Thurber, Southern |
California's Olympic high jumper, and
Joe Moclair, who added to Manhat-
tan's laurels by whirlwind dash to
Victory In the 2-mile run.
Thurber cleared feet 6M inches |
b wipe out the former meet mark Of |
Q feet 6h inches, set by George spitz
OF New York University in 1893.
Moclair came from behind with an |
unbeatable rush to lead two Michigan |
6eate rivals, Kenneth Waite and Rich |
ard Frey, to the finish of the distance
race. His time Of 9:21.2 erased the |
Sormer record Of 9:22, established In |
.Ae2s by James Reid of Harvard.
Photo finishes marked both sprint |
nnals. The judges gave Adrian Talley |
Of Southern California the nod over
wilbur Greer Of Michigan State in |
tho loo-yard race as they hit the tape
coeether. Pittsburgh's Edgar Mason,
caeholder IN 1895, was picked over
1Allsy IN the 22o-yard final, In an
other thrillingly close finish.
johnson Out Of sprints.
Motion pictures Of both races will |
oe examined, officials announced, to
determine If any changes in the placing
order are justified.
The dashes otherwise featured the
downfall Of Columbia's Negro ace,
Ben johnson, who won both events
last year. An attack Of measles put
johnson out OF competition this spring
and he failed to return to top form.
He qualified in both sprints, but with
drew from the seyoi-fiy,o1e 80 ~. ooo