Evening star., 1941-06-06
Coast Retains Lead in Track and Field
A.A.U. Check Reveals
Six DeadIocked in
Century at 9.5
Standards for Ferris
First Ten Club Reach
Dizzy Proportions

While the Far West still leads the
rest of the country in the excel
lence of its track and field perform
ances, there is more even distribu-
ton of first places this month as
the Amateur Athletic Union pub
fishes its monthly tabulation of out
standing performances in the June
Issue Of its official magazine, The
Amateur Athlete.
This is the final tabulation before
the SD annual National A. A. U.
track and field championships are
held at Franklin Field in Phila-
delphia on June % and %. Seven
of the leaders in the Is events in
the list will defend their titles this
month-Harold Davis, Grover KLEIN
mer, Cornelius Wamerdam, Les
Steers, Al Blozis, Billy Brown and
Greg Rice.
A six-way tie for first place in
the 100-yard dash and a two-way tie
for first in the high hurdles brought
fractions to the performance COM
pilation which found the Far West
with six firsts and two one-siXths for
6la, the Midwest with three firsts
and a half for 3l1, the East with
three firsts and sixth for 31s, and
the South with one first, half and
three one-SiXths for 2.
Far West Goes Ahead.
But it took performances over the
last week end to lift the Far West
ahead of the Midwest. Before Phil
Leibowitz of Idaho ran a 4:09.3 mile
In the Pacific Coast championships
and Harold Stickel of Pitt ran the
low hurdles in 231 in the I. c. "A
meet, the Midwest was leading the
Far West, 5l2 to So; thus Bob CHM
of Nebraska lost top mile honors
with his 4:101 and Bob Wright of
Ohio State lost low hurdles laurels
with his 23.2.
The Coast leaders in Dan Ferris
First Ten Club are Harold Davis.
Salinas Junior College, 206 in the
220; Grover Klemmer, California,
46.4 to equal the world record in the
440; Cornelius Wamerdam, Olympic
Club, IS feet 25s inches for a world
record in the pole vault; Bob Peoples,
Southern California, 234 feet 31a
inches for an American record in
the javelin throw: LeiboWitz with
his 4093 mile; Les Steers, Oregon,
6 feet 107s inches for world record
in the high jump, and two of the
men in the siX-Way tie with 9.5
hundreds, Davis and Peyton Jordon
of the Southern California A. A.
The Midwest offers Campbell
Kane, Indiana, 1913 in the $780,
Greg Rice, South Bend A. A., 9:02.9
in the 2 miles; Archie Harris of
Indiana, 174 feet l inch for an
American record in the discus throw,
and Wright of Ohio State with IA
fiat in the high hurdles to give him
q two-way tie in that event.
Blozis Among Leaders.
Eastern leaders are Blozis, the
Georgetown giant. 81 feet 3 inches
In the shot; Matt Flaherty, New
Hampshire, ITS feet 634 inches in
23.1 low hurdles and a new school,
boy wonder, Harvey Kelsey Of An
dover, with a 95 century, part of
that six-Way tie.
The other three in the 100-yard
deadlock come from the South.
They are Carleton Terry of Texas,
Billy Brown of Louisiana State and
Leo Tarrant of Alabama State. Pete
Owens of Texas Howard Payne Col
lege is tied with Wright at IA fiat in
the high hurdles, while Brown is
the best of the countrys broad
Jumpers at 25 feet 7 inches.
So rigid are the entry require
mentS to the First Ten Club that
the following is the tenth or worst
performance in the Is events: 100
yards, 90; 220 yards, PIP; 44O yards,
465; $50 yards, 1886; mile, 4:l9;
2 miles, 1929; high hurdles. 14.6:
low hurdles, 239; shotput, so feet
212 inches; discus throw, 155 feet
29s inches; javelin throw, 2O7 feet 5
inches: pole vault, 13 feet 634 inches:
broad jump, "a feet 42s inches; high
jump, 6 feet 624 inches: hammer