The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
Team Balance
Tips Scales in
Contests Here
Detroit Police Roll
up Total in Heavy
Weight Events

The visiting Detroit
Police Department, University OF
Michigan and all the rest-were
rudely pushed aside Saturday as
Michigan Normal retained It's
Michigan A. A. U. track and field
championship at Briggs Field.
The enduring HGFoEs had seam
balance, still the prime essential IN
large-scale meets OF this sort. and
they finished ahead of the field
with total of l2a points. Detroit
Police, through near monopoly of
the weight events. rolled up 1l9
points, two more than Michigan.
Michigan Normal trailed most OF
the way, finally taking the lead
with three events TO go after pick
ing up II points in the two-mile
run, The Hurons placed in is out
of the 20 events on the day-lonS
program.
Charles (Whitey) Had paced the
happy Hurons with victories in
his specialties, the 120-yard high
and 220-yard low hurdles. Though
running on a muddy track, dotted
here and there by STABLE puddles.
the sure-footed junior cracked
meet record in one event and tied
the existing mark in the, other.
Had bounded over the low hur.
dies in :23.S to clip four-tenths Of
a second OF the record Charley
Doan. Wayne. established two
years ago. His winning time in
the highs OF :14.7 tied the stand.
ard which AL Tolmich, then OF
Wayne. hung up in 1898.
Tommy Quinn, making his last
running appearance on the Briggs
Field course, and Tony Rasmo.
vich, New Hampshire junior, also
captured flrsts for Normal. Harold
Stein tied with Bob Harris. OF
Michigan State. at 10 feet in the
pole vault.
Michigan Normars great long
distance runner set the pace all
the way TO decisiyely trounce Roy
Fehr, former Spartan racer and
champion, by a 40-yard margin in
the mile run. He was clicked in
4:23.2. for Quinn, an incredibly
slow time.
Qulnn's aspiration OF defeating
Michigan's Warren Breidenbach In
the SS0-yard run was doused as the
Wolverine luminary uncorked
fast sprint with 300 yards to go TO
easily triumph over the Huron.
Rasmovich boosted his Michigan
Normal record In the javelin throw
to 191 feet three inches. He also
placed sixth in the hammer throw,
an event in which he had never
before competed.
Besides Had, four other indivi-
duals shared starring roles in the
meet. They were Joe Matyunas.
Michigan Normal freshman: George
Huber, Detroit Police; and Al Piel-
and Francis Mccarthy. both OF
Michigan.
Huber, 30-year-old patrolman in
the Accident Prevention Bureau.
scored 80 points on wins in the
shot put, discus and hammer throw
and a fifth place in the 56-pound
weight throw. His heave OF 1856
feet eight inches in the hammer
established another meet record.
Mccarthy compiled 30 1-3 points
on triumphs in the broad jump and
hop, step and jump, a second in the
high hurdles and a tie for fourth
in the high Jump. Piel, Michigan
captain-elect, scored a double" In
the 100 and 22O yard dashes. setting
record OF PA in the furlong.
The prize upset OF the meet was
turned in by Matyunas, who
nipped Breidenbach, former West
ern Conference champion, in the
44o-yard dash. Matyunas turned
the distance in 4s.9 seconds.
Bert Copeland, Benton Harbor.
was the outstanding high school
competitor. Copeland won the
100 in :10.2. which equaled Piel's
time in the open century: took
second in the broad jump and an
chored his school to victory In the
half-mile relay.
Bill Mihalo. Detroit, set rec