Evening star., 1950-06-25
AttIesey Sets
Mark Of 1876 at
Park
10 Defending Champs
Out of Is Successful;
Most Races Are Close
Summaries on Page B-3.
By George Huber

Dick Attlesey. big raw-boned
Los Angeles A.C. athlete, bettered
the worlds record for the 1l0-
meter hurdles yesterday in the cd
annual National AAU track and
field championships at the Uni
versity Of Maryland. The 21-year-
old Southern California senior
bounced over the timbers in 1876
seconds one-tenth of a second
under the accepted world figure
held jointly by Forrest Townes
and Fred Wolcott.
Attlesey had to come from be-
hind to catch Jim Gherdes of
Penn State, passing him on the
fifth hurdle and beating him by
about 2 yards. Two of the official
clockers caught Attlesey in 1876
seconds and another called it 1875.
There is no reason his mark
shouldn't be accepted as a new
record. There was only a very
slight and immeasurable wind in
Byrd Stadium yesterday, and
what breeze there was was blowing
against the runners. The tenn
perature was in the middle COS.
1914 Record Finally Goes.
But AttleSey wasn't the whole
show in yesterdays senior events,
held before a sweltering crowd
of about 1000. One National AAU
record was broken and another
tied. The record went in the
16-pound hammer throw where
Sam FELTON,. jr., of the New York
A.C. twirled the ball out to 1877
feet, 324 inches to repeat as
champion. The 183-foot 334-
inch record he shattered was the
Oldest in the books, having stood
since 1914 when set by P. J. Ryan
of New York's I.AA.C.
I Tying the meet record was
Yale's Jim Fuchs, representing
the New York AC. yesterday. He
repeated as shot put champion
with a distance of 1877 feet, 21s
inches identical to his record-set-
ting heave of last year. Fuchs
tried for another championship in
the discus yesterday, but the best
he could do was second with 1853
feet, II inches, nearly 5 feet short
of the winning 173 feet. 2Ha inches,
by Defending Champion Fortune
Gordein Of San Francisco's Olym-
pic Club.
Altogether there we're 16 de-
Tending champions competing in
the 19 events, and 10 of them
repeated and four others won
places. Only ones to miss scor-
ing at all were Craig Dixon, of
the Los Angeles A.C., beaten for
sixth place in the ITO hurdles by
Billy Mitchell of Georgetown, and
Richard Phillips of Brown Uni
versity, who was unplaced in the
high jump.
Stanfield Withdraws.
Dixon did not elect to defend
his 200-meter low hurdles cham
pionShip, and Andy Stanfield of
the Grand Street Boys Associa-
ton, New York, was a last-minute
scratch from the 10O-meter and
200-meter dashes he won last
year. Stanf1eld actually was on
his mark for a heat in the 100
and made a false start. He then
withdrew because he was both
cred by an old muscle injury.
The 100-meter provided one of
the afternoons big thrills, with
three runners in a photo finish
for first place. The pictures
showed Arthur Bragg Of Morgan
State College the winner in 1914
seconds, a tenth off the meet
record and ahead of Lloyd Le-
Beach of the Circle A.C., Los
Angeles. and Bob Tyler, also from
Morgan State.
Morgan produced another win
ner in another exciting race when
George Rhoden repeated as 400
meter champion. Herb McKenley
of the Grand Street Boys Associa-
tion, the worlds record holder,
set the pace until Rhoden passec
him about so yards from the
finish to win by S yards in 46.5
seconds.
Even some of the longer races
were close. Little John Twomey
of the Illinois Track and Field
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