The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-19
Rough Riders
Place Second
in Meet Here
Herbie Smith Breaks
School Record in 440
Yard Dash

Senior Herbert Smith broke the
Roosevelt High School 4iO-yard
dash record Saturday as the
Rough Riders placed second in the
Glass c division OF the Michigan
Normal regional track meet.
Ann Arbor University High scor-
ed 81 points. six more than Roose-
welt, to win the Class C champion.
ship. Milford was third with 24t
points, Milan fourth with 23a and
Lambertville fifth with 1874.
Smith burst in front at the
3OO-yard mark and pulled away to
a 10-yard margin at the finish. He
was clicked in :54.S. one-tenth OF
a second under the former Roose-
Welt mark which he set in the
Huon League Field Day last year.
Three other Rough Rider per-
formers qualified for the state fin
ais at East Lansing this week.
They were Dick Meldrum. who
won the half-mile: Roger Smith,
who finished second In the ZOO
yard low hurdles. and Bob Hops.
who took third place in the mile
run.
Roger Smith, who also ran
fourth in the 120-yard high hurd-
les. will not compete in the STATE
meet, Coach Matt Lappinen said
Sunday.
Running much the same sort OF
race as Herbert Smith. Medium
allowed RA1eigh Schorling OF Uni
yersity High. to set the pace for
$50 yards before starting his
sprint to the finish. Meldrum's
time in the half-mile was 2:07.3.
Other Roosevelt point-winners
were Bob Northrup, fourth In the
mile; Lamar Miller, fifth in the
220-yard dash, and the Rough
Rider relay team. which came in
third.
Nelson Boik. runner-up in the
Glass B shot put, accounted for all
Of the points Tailed by Ypsilanti
High School. The team coached by
Jack Starwas was eleventh IN,
its division. which was won By
Birmingham.
The meets individual performer
was five-foot-seven-inch Forrest
Naveaux, junior from Monroe. who
bettered the state high school re-
cord in the pole vault with a
leap OF IL feet s inches.
Forrest led his school TO the
Glass A championship by also TAX
ing firsts in the 100 and 220-yard
dashes and running the initial leg
on Monroe's victorious half-mile
relay team.
Defending state champion In the
low hurdles. Russ Reader. OF
Dearborn. captured both Sof the
timber-topping events. equsling
the regional record OF. ;15.S In the
highs. He also placed second In
the broad jump and ran in the re-
lay.
Glass A records we're broken by
Walt Nasarzewski, of Wyandotte,
in the broad jump and Frazier
Luckett. OF Dearborn, in the half
mile. Howard Oehmke pushed the
shot as feet 10 3-4 for a Class B
mark.
Point scoring: Class A-Monroe
6Ss, Dearborn 3s "a, Wyandotte
80. River Rouge 81 "a, Plymouth
~.
Class p Birmingham 81 "a,
30 ga. Belleville 90 is.
Albion 20 "a. Wayne II lilo. East
Detroit and Melvindale 10, Rose
Vile 8. Trenton Z, Berkeley IA,
Ypsilanti Central 4, Howell l is,
Ecorse, Pennington and Van Dyke
I, BEDFORD Union 0.
Glass Gam Arbor University
High 81, Ypsilanti Roosevelt 25,
Milford 24i. Milan 23s, Lambert
vile 1871. Keego Harbor Is, Tee
umseh 81. Flat Rock 8, Morenci
and Saline 7, williamson s,
Michigan Center 5. Romulus 2,
Dundee and Vandercook 0.
Class D Michigan School for
the Deaf AZ. Clinton 24A, Byron
II. North Adams is, Clayton II,
Fraser 1oi. Bloomfield Hills s,