Evening star., 1948-07-27
By Dorsey J. Griffith

Director Of The sior Track Comes
Our field men are the greatest We
ever have sent to the Olympic
Games. In four of the eight events
our qualifiers exceeded the Olympic
record. Not only the winners, but
in the shot and pole vault all three
bettered the record.
Despite the failure to qualify of
Charley Fonville, Michigan's shot
put world record holder at So feet, he
bettered the present Olympic record
of So feet 1a4 inches made by Hans
Woellke of Germany in winning the
1886 event in Berlin. Fonville's 54
feet 13s inches gave MIN only fourth
place in the tryouts. James Francis
Delaney of the San Francisco
olympic Club and former Notre
Dame great got off the best put of
his life to reach 55 feet 1A inches.
Wilbur (Moose) Thompson of the
Los Angeles A. c. and James Fuchs,
Yale's sophomore halfback did 81
feet 11B inches and 81 feet 83s
inches, respectively.
| ALI May Break RECORD.
There seems no doubt in this event
that one-perhaps all of our boys
will break the present Olympic
standard.
! In 1886 Earle Meadows of Brown
vile, Tex, established an Olympic
standard of IA feet ga inches in the
pole vault. Twelve years later Earle
made a valiant effort to represent
the United States again in the
vault. His highly respectable 13 feet
I 6 inches got him only sixth place,
however, and John Montgomery of
the University of Southern Cali
fornia broke Meadows Olympic rec
ord with a IA feet, AS inches effort,
but it meant only fourth place.
| A. Richmond Morcom of New
Hampshire State and Quinn Smith
of the Olympic Club of San Fran
cisco scared IA feet 81s inches. while
the Rev. Robert Richards of the
Illinois A. C. did two inches less.
incidentally, Rev. Richards is the
same competitor who as ministerial
student at Bridgewater College came
up to Catholic University in 1945 for
the Mason-DiXon. championship
meet and went home with six gold
medals. He set the present MD
record of IL feet 6 inches (being
stopped from further heights by a
cloudburstD In between vaults he
won the javelin. broad and high
Jumps and both hurdle races. Com
petition was not so tough in those
war years, but winning six events
in one day is quite feat in any
league. Rev. Richards is short,
stocky youngster, about 5-feet-6, $50
pounds and is married.
In the dicuss Fortune Gordien of
the University of Minnesota did 166
feet 2 inches, Vic Frank of Yale Z
native of Philadelphia, tossed t.
platter 165 feet 10s4 inches. Both
of these boys exceeded the present
Olympic record of 165 feet 73s inches.
held by Ken Carpenter, another OF
Dean CromWell's stars, made in Ber-
lin in 1886. Master Sergt. Bill Bur-
ton of the All-Army team and for
merly of Williams College exceeded
his collegiate marks by over 20 feet
to become our third qualifier with
toss of 1853 feet 94 inches. Burton's
heave was exceeded only by Car
penter in the Berlin games as Cor
don Dunn, also of the United States,
was second with 161 feet 113s inches.
In the high jump it was just
question of who had a good day and
who had an off day, as all II final
lists who entered the meet had
jumped 6-8 on at least one occasion
this year. In the AAU semifinals
on July 4 Tom Scofield of Kansas
and Bill Vessie, New York A. c., tied
at feet 75s inches with Dick
Phillyn of Brown and Vern McGrew
from Houston. Tex, and John Wis
locky Of the N. Y. A. c. tied at one
inch less. George Stanich Of Los
Angeles A. c. did 6 feet AS inches.