Evening star., 1941-06-30
Two Rivals Equal Old
4O0-Meter Mark as
Bear Runs 46 Flat
Wolcott, Stewart, Brown,
Steers Crack National,
A. A. u. Standards
Bv DICK CRESAP,
Associated Press Sports Writer

PHILADELPHIA, June 30-Coach
Charley Hunter of the San Francisco
Olympic Club made two predictions
before the National A. A. U. senior
track and field championships
both panned out perfectly.
The veteran mentor forecast an
other victory for his squad 1t came
through brilliantly with 125 points
yesterday at Franklin Field to win
the team title for the third straight
year.
Hunter also singled out the 400
meter dash to provide the meets
sensation. 1t stole the show as 90
year-Old Grover Klemmer of the
Olympic Club raced to a world rec
ord in 46 seconds fiat, barely beating
a field that was matched almost
perfectly.
Klemmer, University of California
sophomore, noSed out Hubert Kerns
and Cliff Bourland of the Southern
California A. A., both of whom were
clicked in 461, which equalled the
old world record set in 1886 by
Archie Williams at Chicago.
Georgetown's Al Blozis, who was
competing for the New York A. c.,
retained his shot put title with a
heave of 54 feet So inches, but the
other Washington entrants were
shut out; Maryland's Gene Ochsen-
reiter and Tommy Fields dropping
out of the senior 800 and 1,500-meter
runs. respectively.
Three Meet Marks Broken.
Three meet records went by the
books.
Fred Wolcott of Rice Institute
raced over the 110-meter hurdles in
1877 to equal the world mark and
clip tWo-tenthS of second off the
senior A. A. U. mark he established
in 1910. Bill Stewart of the South
ern California A. A. and Less Steers
of the Olympic Club leaped 6 feet
ga inches in the high jump to equal
the listed world mark and beat the
A. A. U. record of 6 feet 81. inches
which Steers set last year. Stewart
was awarded first place over Steers
for having fewer misses.
Bouncing Billy Brown of Louisiana
State contributed the third meet
mark with so feet liz inches in the
hop, step and jump, which also
stands for a new American citizens
record
Brown led the individual scorers
with "a points, firsts in the hop,
step and jump and the running
broad jump and fourth in the 100
meter dash.
Cornelius Warmerdam, the Olympic
Club star who pole-valuted IS feet
52t inches earlier this year, won
first place in that even with a mark
of IS feet-and created some con-
fusion for the records. His mark
bettered the listed world record of
IA feet II inches. set by Earle
Meadows and William Seton in
1886 at Los Angeles, but was lower
than Warmerdam's senior A. A. U.
record of IS feet 11s inches which
he posted last year.
Davis and Ewell Split.
The Olympic Clubs Hal Davis,
billed as the current worlds fastest
human" equaled his meet record of
20.4 seconds in defending his 200
meter dash title by edging out Penn
State Colleges Barney EWell.
EWel squared his personal duel
with Davy by winning the 10O-meter
dash over the Olympic Club star in
10.3 seconds, squaling the meet
record.
Leslie MacMitchell of the New
York Ohrbach A. c., and Gregory
Rice, South Bend A. A, won firSts
in the 1,500-meter run and 5000
meter run, respectively. 1t was
MacMitchell's first National A. A. U.
title. He won it by trimming the
defending champion. Walter Mehl,
Madison, Wis, in 1881.
A crowd of $4,000, largest ever to
see the Nationals, turned out for
the second days events. The junior
championships were run off Satur-
day. with the Southern California
A. A. winning the team title.
New York A. c., with 851a points.
was runner-up to the Olympic Club
for the senior team title with the
Southern California A. A. third with
66 points.