Evening star., 1939-05-21
Michigan Big Ten Track Champ
Third Time in Row; Watson
Again Gets 3-Event Slam

Robert Lewis of Ohio State sue
| cessfully defended his 22O-yard dash
title. while the high Jump cham
pionship went to Illinois Bob
Diefenthaler with a leap of feet 6
inches.
The one-two finish of today's
meet duplicated the finish of the
1888 event, when Michigan was first
with 6l12 points and Wisconsin sec
ond with 81. Behing Indiana today
were Ohio State. %; Purdue. 49,;
Minnesota, II: Illinois, 10: Chicago,
9; Northwestern, 8 LIP, and Iowa,
1-12.
na45 45o-ysrd iTcs dash-Won by Warren B5eiden-
Ohio STATE: third Philip Balyeat Mlchi-
iG6-ysrd dashmWon by tsitsi Myron m Piker Pix
Northwestern; second Robert Lewis. Ohio
state: tRlTd Alan Smith Mchigsn fourth
Davenport. Chicago. Time 0:9.9.
1:o-yard high hurdles-,Won by Elmer
Gedeon; &c Michigan: second; Edward Smith,
nth. Stanley Kelley, Michigan Time,
Mchigan, 81 feet 6ss inches; second
Archie Harris. Indiana. 4S feet IoI4 inches:
inches iS Tour fourth Sn Forrest s WeSer Purdue due
feet 7's inches: fifth. John Sikich, Illinois,
As feet 6ss inches.
sso-yard run-Won by Edward Buxton,
State; third. Robert Petrie. Wisconsin;
fourth. Arthur Bodeau. Purdue: Fifth,
Thomas Jester. Michigan Time. l:5a,9.
ndsna m ee by ndRss beseF seeonG
third. Jerry sefert, Wisconsin. 81 feet feet
-, inches; fourth. Howard Ell, Ohio state.
ridge. Ohio State. $50 feet % inches.
One-me run-Won by Walter Mehl.
Wisconsin; second. Melvin Trutt. Indiana;
hTd EdTard BdTre' MShEsn fourth
Michigan. Time-4:14.3
a2o-yard dash--Won by Robert Lewis.
Ohio State; second Alan Smith Michigan;
culver Michisan: nth. Carl Teufei. Iowa.
Tlme-0.Hl.n %.
Discus-Won by William Watson. Mich-
gan. 100 feet ln's inches; second. William
hrehe aarr5 dans feft inches nahsd 5rd
fourth. John Rubbish, Minnesota, I44
feet :. inch; fifth Merrill Hardness. Iowa,
ference record made by Watson in prelimi-
nary Friday; old record 81 feet . inches.
made by Arlie Mucks. Wisconsin. in l916J
Two,mile run-Won, by Ralph schwarz-
kopf. Mchigan; second, Walter Mehl. Wis
fourth William Farm. Wisconsin: nth.
Irven Liljegren. Minnesota. Time-9:25.3.
220yard low hurdles-Won by Roy
Cochran, Indiana; second. Stephen Gut
ting Purdue; third Clinton Loste.ter,
Minnesota; fourth, Stanley Kelley, -Michi-
gan; fifth. James Allen. Indiana. Time
0:23.4.
One-mile relay-Won by Michigan fJack
Leutriz, Douglas Hayes, Philip Balyeat and
Warren Breidenbachl second. Ohio State;
third. Iowa: fourth. Purdue; fifth Indiana
Time, 3:l4.7. New western Conference
record; old record. 3:15.2 by Michigan in
1880
Michigan, 25 feet 5Is inches; second Riley
Wells Hodgson, Minnesota, "a feet ia
inches fourth. Carl Culver, Michigan, 90
feet | u inches; fifth. Fred Culver. Mich
igan, - feet. 1Os4 inches.
High jump-Won by Robert Diefenthaler,
Illinois. feet 8 inches; second. Alfred Har-
Butler, Minnesota; q feet ] inch; tied for
fourth and fifth places. Robert Burnett and
Edward Mikulas Indiana; Wesley Allen.
Donald Canham and Robert King, Mich-
Wisconsin; James A. Smith. Northwestern,
and James Wilson. Iowa. 5 feet inches.
Poule vault-Won by Robert Cassels Chi
cago. IA feet 234 inches; second. Milton
Padway. Wisconsin. 13 feet 10 inches;
third. Edward Davidson. Chicago. 12 feet
10 inches; tied for fourth and fifth Edwin
Thistlethwaite. Northwestern; Dale Roberts.
Gardner. Wisconsin. u feet 6 inches. New
Western Conference record: old record 3
feet 103s inches made by Vernon McDer-
mott. Illinois. in 1930)