Evening star., 1942-04-28
Flock Of Records 10
City Unusually d,
IN Timber r-Toppers
Club ond Interhish
Meets Slotted in Moy;
CentroI Team Hot
BY GEORGE HUBER.

The MARYLAND interscholastie meet
Saturday will open a month of bic
competition for high school track
athletes, q month that on past per.
formanccs In dual and triangular
Affairs this spring should produce
more than the usual number oi
records.
The Tome meet Is missing this
year, leaving open It's usua! spot IN
the second week of May, but other
wise there will be the &C" Club
about the best high school affair
on the Atlantic Coast. scheduled
for May is, and the interhigh meet
set for Lay 81 and "a.
Hardest mark Of any TO crack is
IN the lo0-yard dash, standing at
e.s seconds at Maryland, 81 in the
&C" Club and 10 fiat In the inter-
his.., but IL any one does 1t this
season II probably viii be Courtney
Renshaw OF George Washington
High. His time of 104 made two
weeks ago at the Duke interscholas-
tics was lowered 10 l0.1 last week
In q triangular meet and he is point
ing for a real effort within the next
few weeks.
Coed Hurdlers Abound.
Among records likely to 60 are
those I'm the hurdle, pole vault and
shot. Washington is rich in hurdlers
this season, including Floyd Brook
ems and Frank Nelson at Eastern,
Calvin Weems at Coolidge and Bob
Landmark at Tech. Brookens and
Nelson have been aiming at the
hurdles for three years and this
should be their season, but those
other two boys are not to be ignored,
In two weeks weems has won both
the high and low hurdles twice each,
but unfortunately the races were
not even standard distances so his
times cannot be compared.
Landmark In a dual meet at Epis-
copal two weeks ago ran the 120
high hurdles In 159 seconds, q tenth
OF q second better than the current
intcrhigh mark and only one-tenth
OF the Maryland record. with all
these good timber-toppers pressing
each other it's almost a certainty
that some, and perhaps all, Of the
records win 60.
Landmark particularly Is noted
for his pole vaulting. In Philadel-
phia. where he competed last year
he twice cleared IL feet 8 inches
That's much better than both the
&C" Club and interhieh standards
and only an inch short of Mary
lands record. Although he hasn't
reached II feet this season it's only
because he hasn't been pressed
Coach Dutch Usilaner of Tech is
certain he will do close to Is feet
II he can locate a long enough pole
There's shortage of bamboo, and
90 far Landmark hasn't found quite
the stick he needs.
Kurx Manhandling Shot.
Big Jim Kurz of Central, who
would have been Washington's best
schoolboy fullback last season but
for any injury. Is knocking the shot
record around. He's heaved the
12-pound ball 81 feet 3h inches and
81 feet 51s inches on successive week
ends. These do not top the Mary
land or &C" Club figures, but they
are much better than the interhigh
mark and Jim will be heaving for
records starting this week end.
As for team championships Gen.
tral appears to be tops in Washing
son. 1t has balance with strength in
both running and field events, and
aside from several potential first
place winners 1t owns the depth to
pick up needed points for second
third and fourth and fifth places
often deciding factor in the big
meets.
Washington-Lee also is among
the good teams. being especially
strong In the field events.