Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-05-23
SP 0 RTS SLANTS
By Lucius Melancholy Jones
Hal Davis, White Coast Flyer, Equals
World Record OF 9.4 In 100; Alabama's
Leo Tarrant Wanted Benedict Rival!

SOME TIME AGO-over year back-certain national
sckpapar magazines carried predictions that coast white
boy by the name of Harold (Ha) Davis then Of Salinas
Junior College the lad to do what the track experts
said couldn't be achievedrn the 100 yard dash in nine
seconds flat.
So far, Hal Davis hasn't lived up to the promise of
clicking off nlneflat century. But don't say it's impos
sibe Remember they once said foot high jump was
out OF reasonhat feet ga nches reached by Cornelius
Johnson of Compton Junior College California; and David
Abron of Ohio State for joint world record was about
the point of human limitation.
Yet despite the latter claim Les Steers white OREGON
University crossbar artist has already cleared the height
cf feet inches for the present world record in the
eventand it is just possible he may swing at least one
inch before he hangs up his track thnes and ceats
What is more the experts thought Seton Meadows pole
vault mark of Ia feet IL inches would defy generations to
But friends longer than the past Sunday in
the 1912 West Coast Relays at Fresno California Cornelius
Warmerdam, teaching high school at Piedmont Cali
fonla cleared Is feet for the twentysecond
in two years Warmerdam, present. has heart set on
16foot pole vault He holds the world record at Is feet
5A inches.
simultaneously to Warmerdam's Is feet inches pole
vault at Fresno last Sunday Hal Davis was equang the
world record of 9 inches in the 100 yard dash for
time in his He achieved the feat in 1885 and 1896
but neither pertornnce got official recognition from the
bigwigs of track
Clyde Jeffery of Stanford beaten by Moze Eerbe of
Tuskegee for his second straight NCAA 100 yard dash
at Los Angeles 1910 has been clicked in "a
in the century happened in 94O but crack white
sprnter was not given credit for the mark by
Official holders of the world record in the yard dash
are just two in Frank Wykoff white formerly of the
University of Southern California and Jesse Owens late of
Ohio State Besides running the 100 in a. did the
fulong in 2G the broad jump &c feet 8 inches and
the 22o yard low hurdles in 22 econds three world
records while fifth bit of world acclaim las brought out
by scrutiny of the records books Owens way as
result of his participation the u S. 4OOeter relay team
which covered the required distance in 1877 seconds
1850 oympad at Berlin That is world record which still
sianis.
Ii is lust well for Mr. Edward big Eddie) Green
idge the 200pound first sprnter of Benedict College
Columbia C., who halls from New York City, that he
didn't touch the greenery Of the Atlanta University oval the
past Saturday where the fifth SAC Track and Field
Championships were being run off.
Leo Tarrant of Alabama State the 1912 Penn Relays
100 yard dash champion who by Greenidge in the
sixteenth annual Tuskegee Relays May g. had blood in his
eyes Make mistake about it, Brother Tarrant was all
SET had Greendge been the to him into the
ground
The Hornet star won both his 100 and 22O ward dash
heats in SO and 21 seconds respectively Saturday morn
ing In the finals he hotfooted his way to impressive
victory in $40 in the century and then lifted eyebrows galore
by clicking off the furong in the recordequang time of
206 seconds.
The Greenidge boy won this column over as one of his
admirers the strength of his great performance at the
Tnskegee Relays But it satisfied Tarran would have
licked the Benedict lad twice had he been available the pass
week end
That statement is just personal opinion and of course
be taken for better Before the meet the col
nmn would have taken Greendge to repeat this victory
arran IN the century The race was predicted that way
in pre-nleet article.
But Tarrant changed the columns mind Saturday. It
is impossible to forget the impressive sight of the Brmng
Bullet in those two flat the other day ap-
peared to have both wings and propeller swiftly did his
powerful pisonke legs annhate the cnders of the A. u
obIong.
Fans missed something of an extravaganza last year
when the Fort Valley State mdandy, Ernest Marshall
unable to contest Warehouses Ulysses Champ) Amos Tus
kegees Upshaw Sans and the other great quarter mers
Of the conference the finals after Keeling off the
ing trials in AIT seconds.
But the folk missed bigger treat the past Sat
urday when fate cheated them out of showdown
the grudgenurturng Tarran and Greendge who the
latter been entered would thrown at odds in both
the 100 and 220 yard dash.
Tarrant's undergraduate is ended now. The
poised senior hangs up his togs after the NCAA meet
Freshman Greendge has chance rule the STAG with an
iron hand for years to coend knows he may sue
coed Tarrant Penn Relays champion too