Evening star., 1939-03-12
Michigan Is Big Ten
Track Champ Sixth
Successive Time
Watson and Gedeon Leud
Wolverine Team, Which
Scores Az Points
BY the Associated Press.

os VIC seSOC4cltO IISSe.
CHICAGO. March 11.-Michigan' s
powerful Wolverines won their sixth
consecutive Big Ten indoor track
championship tonight. compiling
the most remarkable string of in
door track titles in Western Con-
ference history.
walk away with top honors in a
meet at University of Chicago's
fieldhouse which saw three cham
pions dethroned, three retain their
individual titles and threw new meet
records established.
Wisconsins Badgers. counted on
to provide the stiffest challenge to
Wolverine supremacy, scored 24l2
points, with Indiana third with 20
points and the remainder of the
flela we'll strung out.
Husky Bill Watson, Michigan's S
Negro star. and Elmer Gedeon. high
hurdler, led the Wolverines to vic
tory. Watson retained his shot put
title with a toss which smashed the
conference indoor mark he set in
1887.
He hurled the ball 81 feet 8ss
inches tonight. compared to his old
mark of so feet "A inches. Gedeon
repeated in his speciality, stepping
the 10 yards over the barriers in SO
seconds, a tenth of a second off the
conference indoor mark and the
same time with which he won the
event sin 1898.
one-mile run.awon BY Mehl cWiscon.-
schwarzkopf tMichlsanl: fourth, Holder
man nan 'Purdge'; fifth "isner 'Michsan>.
6o-yard dash fnal-won by piker
lNorthwestern, second, Smith Mich
Ksufman" " 'wisconsin,: f nth, :" Davenport
44Q.yard dash-won by Howels Ohio
eocan See01e Sas eqs ourh iowa Fau2ner fRa
lMichiean, fifth. sulzman Cohio State.
Time. ne vs1d od9t s,ss ,u-a,o. sno, uo. ,v
aHn nutess sesand pu? gs
duel; third. Smith wisconsin; fourth.
Kelley IMichisan); FIFTH. wasem tchicaso).
STATED: second. Meh WISCONSIN,; third,
Heyl ,Michigan); fourth Lilisren MIN
9sSota'i Tlms a.ss sfth' i Williams 'ohio sta'e''
ssO-yard run-Won by Bodeau 'Pur-
due): second, Davidson (Michigan): third
Hoke undiana): fourth Eisenhart (Ohio
statel: fifth. Jester tMichigan. Time.
shotput-won by Watson. Michigan
t5l feet Sas inches. New Western Con-
ference indoor record-od record. so feet
4i4 inches. by Watson in 1892. Second
Harris. Indiana al feet "a inches): third
Rendleman. Chicago t46 feet 10 inches>:
fourth. Malisch. Wisconsin t46 feet q
inn,ches, fifth, silkey. Minnesota 45 feet
Pole vault-won by Padway. Wisconsin
14 feet lss inches; new Western Con-
ference indoor record-old record 13
feet 10 inches. by Esti Lexington. Illinois.
in 1889; second. Thistlethwaite. North
western G3 feet inches) third Cassels.
Chicago 13 feet inchesl; tied for
fourth and fifth. Davidson, Chicago;
Roberts Iowa. and Gardner. Wisconsin
I2 feet inchesl.
High jump-Won by Defenthaler Illinois
(s feet inches); second, Canham. Michi-
gan GO feet 3 inches); tied for third and
fourth, Allen. Michigan, and Best Wis
conStn &C feet l lnch) tied for fifth. Ray.
Chicago, and Smith, Northwestern CO
feet.
1-mile relay-Won by Michigan (Balyeat.
Breidenbach. Hayes. Faulkner second.
Ohio State: third. Indiana; fourth. Iowa
fifth. Illinois. Time 3 minutes 1S9 sec
onds (new Western Conference indoor
record-old A.cord, 3:20.3, by Michigan
in 1880.