Evening star., 1946-04-28
By Hugh Fullerton, Jr.
Assoeioted Press Sports Writer

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PHILADELPHIA, April 27.-Ili-
nois athletes were the hottest thing
on chilly, windswept Franklin Field
today. They took the most coveted
of events at the Penn relays, the
mile relay; barely missed sweep
of the four relay events in which
they were entered, and wcn one
individual event.
But for a bad pass Of the baton
in the trials for the 880-yard relay
this morning, Illinois might have
become the third team in the So
year history of the meet to win
four relay events. The Illini had
taken the 440 and the sprint med
ley yesterday and made the best
time in the half-mile trials.
At the start of the anchor leg,
however, Herb McKenley fumbled
the pass from Jack Pierce and didn't
receive the baton until he was out
side the passing zone. AS a result,
the Illinois team was disqualified
ana Navy went on to win the final
McKenley more than atoned for
that slip when he ran great 46.9
quarter as anchor man on the mile
relay team to turn what had been
a close race into a rout. BY virtue
of that leg, Illinois won its third
title by some Is yards over Navy,
with Michigan third.
Eddleman Wins High Jump.
Just before the mile relay thrilled
a crowd of about $4,000, Dwight Ed
dleman won the high jump for the
second straight year with leap of
6 feet inches to score the only
individual triumph for Illinois. Bill
Mathis, Big Ten indoor sprint
champion, could finish no better
than third behind Bill Carter, for
mer Pitt star, now competing for
Tuskegee Army Air Field, and
Charles Jupiter of Howard Univer-
sity.
Michigan, four-race winner a
year ago, failed to take a single
event this year. Besides Illinois,
Manhattan was the only college
team to take more than one relay
event, winning the distance medley
Friday and the four-mile relay today.
Army and Navy were pushed into
the background after dominating the
wartime track picture. The Cadets
won one relay, the 2-mile. and
turned up one individual winner,
William Chyneweth in the Javelin
throw. Navy teams usually were
contenders but their only victory
came in the half-mile relay after
Illinois and New York u, another
contender, had been disqualified.
Despite miserable weather for a
track meet, with frequent showers
during the early afternoon and
biting wind that swept the field, the
athletes turned in some surprisingly
good performances.
Army Relay Dethroned.
Illinois mile relay time was 3:18.4;
Garter won the 100-yard dash-aided
by following wind-in 9.8 seconds,
and Ohio State, surprise winner of
the shuttle hurdle relay, was clocked
in 1:01.7.
The hurdle event probably was the
biggest upset of the carnival. 1t
had been figured as a duel between
Oklahoma A. and NJ, anchored by
Ralph Tate, and Army, winner for
the last two years. The Cadets,
however, failed to qualify when An
chor Man Lee Christensen pulled a
ter,o on at the start and the Aggies'
first three runners just weren't fast
enough to keep up with the Ohio
State boys.
The Buckeyes were about five
yards ahead when Tate, winner of
the individual high hurdles, took
over. He almost caught up to Ohio S
Lloyd Duff but dropped back again
and trailed by about two yards at
the finish.
Manhattan's distance runners
were too good for their field al