The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-25
Experts Dope" On Yankees "'OH The Beam
Stars Get Headlines, But All-Around
 Point Gatherers Win The Track Meets
By ROBERT MELLACE NEA Staff Correspondent

New York, May 25.-It's pleasant to have record-breaker on your track squad, a specialist for one event, but Coach Emil Won Filing, the Ancient Mariner of Eastern track coaches and producer of the Violent Violets of New York Univer- sity, champions of all they survey along the Blackout Belt, leans to- ward the versatile lad who can do many things well, if not good enough to mar the chronicles of the sport.
 Commenting on one-man gangs, predominant with manpower short ages, Von Filing believes the col lective effort and success of the team over balances the individual glory of one athlete. Give him the points, he says, scatter the firsts, and he'll take the meets. He has taken them all, five successive in- door and outdoor during this cam paign.
 Stretching this philosophy around the land, Michigan proved the best argument by taking the Big Ten title without scoring a first.
 Tn that meet was another young man who didn't make the headlines but who is known to the cinder sleuthS as highly efficient in the matter of getting points. That would be Herb Matter, 158-pound red headed junior of Illinois.
 EQUALS BIG TEN RECORD
 No Mo been called the best all-around trackman in Illini history because he scored p points in a triangular meet with Minnesota and Chicago, "A each in dual meets with Indiana and Purdue, 13 in the Big Ten in- door meet, against Michigan State, three fourths and third in the conference outdoor, and tied for first in the pole vault of the Drake Relays. His 13 in the Big Ten outdoor equalled an all-time record. Matter high jumps feet 3 1-2 inches, pole vaults 13 feet 2 5-8 inches, broad jumps 23 feet 9 inches, does the 100 in 10.1, the 220 in 22 seconds, the 60-yard dash in :065, the 60 low hurdles in :07.1, puts the shot 4l feet, throws the discus l20 feet.
 To keep himself busy Matter is also a member of the basketball squad and one of the Orange and Blues outstanding golfers.
 Then, there's New Hampshires Alfred Richmond (Boo) Morcom, the jumping jack who scored a triple in the vault, high jump, and broad jump to break the 67-year precedent of the I. c. A.
 For the benefit of the bush beating brethren of the coaching coterie, there's a kid in Fayette- vile, N. C., (Atlantic Coast Line, Norfolk Southern, Aberdeen and Rockfish) breaking high school rec ords in mass murder.
 CLAYTON OF FAYETTEVILLE
 Don Clayton entered 10 events out of IA and won nine first places and one second. The team he was competing against was Durham's state champions, and he defeated individual titleholders in five events.
 Held to five events in the State meet, Clayton won the high jump and discus and placed second in the broad jump and pole vault. Several of his best marks would do credit to a college star, such as p feet for the broad jump 178 feet 4 for the javelin and 6 feet l-l6 for the high jump, or two inches than the Southern Confer ence winning mark this year.
 Clayton, feet 2 and weighing l78, is also a star in football and basketball.
 His availability is quetionable. however, as he plans to enter the Ar Corps when he turns 18.
 It's beautiful thought, this business of getting the points and being a decathlon strong guy, but track fans aren't quick enough with a pencil to keep up with the SCOT ing
 Like hoss maniacs, they want to see who is coming down front and donts care whether or not he's in another event.