Evening star., 1941-06-22
1rojans Easily
Pace N. A. A.
Track Meet
L.S.U.'s Brown Comes
Iron Man; BIozis
Shotput Victor
By the Associated Press.


PALO ALTO, Calf. June 21.-In
a meet marked by thrills. spills, the
inevitable loose dog and some stellar
individual performances, University
of Southern CALIFORNIA; Trojans
won the Goth annual National Col
legiate Athletic Association track
and field team championship today.
Victory for the Trojans has be-
come an old story. This was their
seventh successive team title. The
score was 8112 points. Others were
not even close. University of In
diana took second with so and Uni
versity of California was third with
49H.
Individual honors were shared bv
many, but the real iron man was
Billy Brown, rangy athlete from
Louisiana State University. He won
the broad jump, took second in the
l00-yard dash, third in the 22O-yard
dash and scored all of his schools
"a points. Brown. in fact, was the
L. S. U. team.
Ewell, Wright Double Winners,
Two double winners were crowned
Norwood Ewell, Penn State Negro,
and Bob Wright of Ohio State.
Ewell, defending champion in the
two sprints, won both events in
handy fashion. He was clocked in
the century in 9.6 seconds and in
the 220 in al seconds.
Wright won the high and low
hurdles about as easily as Ewell
fronted the sprints. He went over
the l20-yard high barriers in IA
seconds and came back to top the
low barriers over 220 yards in 23.4
seconds.
Les Steers of the University of
Oregon won the high lump at s
feet 107s inches to better both the
world and N. c. A. A. records. It
was the fourth time this season the
husky Steers had cleared the bar
above the recognized world mark of
feet ga inches. Last Tuesday in
Los Angeles he went over at 6 feet
IL inches.
Al Blozis of GEORGETOWN. one of
, the few Eastern athletes to score.
retained his shotput title with a
toss of 81 feet 101a inches, which
gave him plenty of margin.
Dog Balks Lang i'm Half.
The world record bettering discus
| throw made yesterday by Archie
Harris, Negro athlete from the Uni
versity of Indiana, held over to win
the event for him. 1t was 174
feet 8& inches and Harris merely
mad to go through the motions to-
DAY. The accepted world record of
ia feet 2l2 inches was made in
1885 by Will Schroeder of Ger
many.
The episode involving the STRAW
dog highlighted the s8O-yard run
and some 5000 fans will testify
the added starter provided inter
esting entertainment.
He followed the field for 2oo
yards, first yapping at the heels
OF the pace setter, Jim Lang n,
washington State College, and
nnally getting in front of him and
causing him to break stride An
athlete on the field tackled the
none chewer so yards from the fn-
lsn and held him until the leaders
nad broken the tape. The incident
undoubtedly cost Lang a bettrs
place than his sixth.
Campbell Kane of Indiana the
starting favorite, won the event
in 1:51.2. ei4'
Official Score Held Up.
because of number of rinse er
lSnes for some of the lesser nIaces
an official point total will not =,
available until next Monday, when
motion pictures are studied
Inc results. however. will not sf-
tect southern California's point To-
tai or team victory and probsblv
ing. s'ano-
One Of the photo finishes invo,vsa
aai sinclair of the University NJ
california at Los Angeles and Cor.
uon Learned of Colorado for sIytb
pace In the 100-yard dash, This
Judges were unable to decide which
MT the finish for the last place snoa
Otner unofficial point totals.
Penn State, 20; N. Y. University
Io' GEORGETOWN, Is; Nebraska ID.
oregon. 10; Notre Dame. 10. Miami
university, 5; Michigan. 81-7. nil
nols' q; Fesno State, 8: Minnesota
7A; U. c. L. A., 7; Colorado. 7: How.
ara Payne. 6; Ashland u, s: Michi-
gan Normal. s; Xavier, s; Oregon
state. 4; Utah, 4; Loyola (ChicaSo1
4; Wisconsin, 4; Washington state
s; Oklahoma A. & NJ, 8; Northwest.
ern' 2l-7; California Aggies, 2:
Oklahoma, 2; Stanford, III; Wash.
lngton, l; Baylor, II; Chicago. 1T:
Michigan State, 1t; Rice, 1T.
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