Evening star., 1940-07-07
Stella Walsh Earns
Individual Trophy
Al A. A. j. Meet
Her Cleveland Combine
Runs Second to Team
From Tuskegee
BY the Associated Press.

OCEAN CITY, N. j., July g.
Stella Walsh OF Cleveland ran of
with individual honors in the wom-
ems national A. A. U. track and
field championships today.
Miss Walsh retained her 2O0-meter
dash and running broad jump
crowns and placed second in the
100-meter event to annex the in
dividual trophy with % points.
Cleveland Squad Runnerup..
Her efforts, however, were not
enough to carry her team, the
Cleveland Polish Olympic Women's
Club, to the team championship,
which was successfully defended by
Tuskegee Institute Of Alabama with
IS points. The Cleveland combine
had 46ia for runnerup honors.
Miss Walsh took the 200 meters
in 26.1 seconds and the running
broad jump with leap of II feet
ia inches. She placed second to
17-year-old Jean Lane, Wilberforce
University, Ohio, Negro star, in
the 100. Jean won in IL seconds.
Jean also captured the 50-meter
dash in Sc seconds to tie Catherine
Fellmuth of Chicago Park Hurri-
canes for second-place individual
honors.
Retains Two Titles.
Miss Fellmuth retained her diSc,ls
throw crown with a toss of ia feet
II inches and her 8-pound shotput
title with a heave of 38 feet 35s
inches.
Summaries:
Running high iump--won by Alice
Gerada- Gottlieb, Canton, Mass; third,
bsrssI Betty Hennns ni1 Philadelphia; fourth, tie
Jacksonville. Fla. Height feet IL inches.
Discus throw-Won by Catherine Fell
meth, Chicago Park Hurricanes; second,
III; third. Frances sobezak. Polish %! olympic t;
Momen,s Club. Cleveland fourth, Hattie
Louise Moore, Jacksonville, Fla. Distance
ia feet IL inches.
po;,e0 zoo meters meters.Won by Stella Walsh,
Edna Gustavson. St. Louis A. C.; third,
Hester Brown, Tuskegee Institute: fourth,
E, Hilda Plepis' Philadelphia, Moose; fifth,
0:261.
,orss 90 msterwWon nstfTs-.iI by Jean Lane WilbeE
Long Island University: fifth sybil Cooper,
GarH de shayes 5H9ssn Mdosa o
Time-0:6.6.
s-pound shotput-Won by Catherine
Fellmeth, Chicago Park Hurricanes; second,
third, Frances sobezak. Polish Hec OLYMPIC nIh
St,t Yetter Phadephia haaaaa Moose Lodge IS
Hattie Hall. Tuskegee Institute. Distance
3S feet 3ss inches.
S0-meters hurdles-Won by Sybil Cooper,
German american A; c.. BROOKLYN second.
A.. C.; third, Lille Purify. Tuskegee Insti-
tus th sylvia satb ansn German
loO-meters run-Won by Jean Lane,
WHfrf0Tss WasS Polish bun!yspsIty osmnis
third Lula Hymes. Tuskegee institute;
fourth; Rowena Harrison. Iuskegee insti-
tute; ntth; jeanette Jones Harrisburg A.
versity., Time. 0:120.
G.. Baseball throw-Won by. Angela Mica,
~. T.. StCOnQ, irene Romano,
Eastern Womens A. c., Brooklyn: third.
Katherine O'Connell, Boston Swimming
Association: fourth, Jean McGunnegle, Bos-
ton Swimming Association; fifth, Pearl
Auerbach. Eastern Womens A. C.. Brook
lyn: sixth, Nevarte Koshgarian. Taylor A.
inches
4OO-meters relay-won by Tuskegee In
Abbott, Rowena Harrison, Lulu Hymes,:
Moose Moose Lodge "a" team, Philadelphia;
fifth. Moose Lodge b. team Phiiadelphia;
sixth, German-American A. c., Brooklyn.
Time 0:49.3.
Running broad jump-Won by Stella
Walsh, Polish Olympic Womens Club,
Cleveland; second, Lucy Newell. Tuskegee
Institute; third, Etty Charters, Philadel-
phia Moose Lodge: fourth, Lula Hymns,
Tuskegee: fifth. Elizabeth Clancy. Ger
Gerda Gottlieb. Canton, Mass. distance,
II feet 7M inches
Javelin throw-Won by Dorothy Dod-
son. Chicago Park Hurricanes; second,
Miriam Melton. ST.. Louis A. c.; third,
Marie Sostar, Harrisburg A. A.; fourth.
Margaret Barnes, Tuskegee Institute;
fifth. Jean McGunnige, Boston Swimming
Association: sixth Angela Mica. st. Louis
A. c. Distance. 1875 feet inch.