Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1926, Page 42

S PORTS. THE EVENING - STAR.. WASHI GTON, D. RIDAY. MAY 28, . 1926. SPORTS. Southern California Team Is Pcked to Win Intercollegiate Champzonsth Meet HARVARD IS MAIN HOPE TO GAIN TITLE F OR EAST Yale and Princelon Also Seen as Possibilities. Records Are Expected to Be Broken—Prelimi- naries Being Tr the Assoriated Press C ANMBRID! track and fie'd games, heginn: Prelimimary trials, starting at 2 great part the winner of tomorrow’s The East's hopes rest on Harva track teams of the year, 813 coast feams Experts generally conceded that Mass. May 2R 1023 meet at_Philadciphia with 33 points ing this year's honors. Harvard scemed to have the hest chance of keeping the title on the Atlantic. It had only one man in sach event, except for Miller. who was entered in both dashes. The coast teams. especially strong in fleld avents, rious events. The Olympic_champion, Capt Houser fof L. S. C.. aims to shatter the existing shot-put and discus rec ords. He Has done befter than the existinz marks for hoth distances this <I>nn, GRE AT FEATS IN TWO BIG TRACK MEETS ; BY INDERS will iy merrily, Cambridge, Mass.. where the heid at the Harvard Stadium, and at Conference games. Michigan probably will win the Big Ten meet, tender for hrst place. _Ii one of the three California Unive sity of California and Southern California, do: 32 institutions were entered in the fiftieth annunal 1. C. while the Pacific Coast i< ambitious for California, rford or Seuthern California to win the fifth meet in six starts by | ane foot. {Azainst_the wall of the pool. entered each member In va-| Bud! Held Today 500 college athletes from | A A AA ing thiz afternoon. | p.m.. standard time, will determine in | finals. | rd. Yale or Princeton, it< outstanding More than which won the | Santhern California. | greatest chance of tak- . had the Lee Barnes, also of U. §. C., is an- other whose name may be written | upon the record page. The record for she pole vault is 13 feet 1 inch, held by Robert Gardner of Yale, now cap- tain of the Walker Cup golf team. Rarnes already has done 136 this r, while Sabin Carr of Yale has ched 13:3. | warm water impart a fecling of se- lout way ahead. ?Eb: chmmg Qtar BOYS GLUB just moved his arms and legs up and down as fast as they would go and re- mained afloat and moved a little. ‘The crawl stroke, the fastest known today and the one used by every sprint swimmer, s a modification of that same primitive system of swim ming. We'll have more to say ahout the crawl &roke mmnrrnu. N learning to swim the beginner should look for favorabfe condi- tions. A pool waist deep and l curity and comfort, A feeling of se- curity is the most important factor |in a swimming education. Get Into a pool ahout waist deep with your back to a wall. Lean for- ward until your head is in the water and stretch vour hands out in the water with your finger tipa sticking Remain standing on whils you place the other Then | take a deep hreath and shove off. “This shove off gives vou starting | momentum that enables ‘you to float | easier. Floating depends entirely on | the sense of security. Any one that | lies face downward in the water with arms and legs stretched out will float. Likewise, any one can remain afloat and swim as long as they hold their breath, however short that may be. Of course. one could not be expected | to spend an afternoon holding his hreath because he wanted to swim, Are vou puiling your serap hook SIX COLLEGES QUIT “these articles in COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 8. colleges, composing the Buckeye Ath- letic Association, voted unanimously last night to withdraw immediately from the Ohio Athletic Conference. ‘The colleges withdrawing are the Uni. versity of Cincinnatl, Denison, Miami. Ohlo Wesleyan, Ohio University and Willenbers. iy I The javelin record of 199 feet 1| inch seems i ely ‘to fall before the arm of Charles Harlow of Stanford, | who has ¢ tently thrown over ‘0(‘ foet. | ARE CERTAIN LAWRENCE PERRY. great bursts of <peed and exhibitions of ! strength and agility will prevail aver the week end at annual 1. ( lowa City, A AL AL A meet will be the scene of the Western with 1l'inois a con- sity teams, viz., Stanford. Univer- not capture first honors at Cambridge it will be surprising indeed No such band of college performers ever migrated from one section to another -and the easy victory last week of California’s team of 15 men rver the strong Princeton track and field team is a decided hint as to the wa Soldiers” Field at Harvard. Many Great Performers. ‘There are Miller of California, who did the 440 in 49 seconds at the Pacific Conference- meet at Palo Alto; Bill Richardson of Stanford. who ran the half mile in 1:54.2; Rey- nolds of Southern California, who did the 120-yard high hurdles in .14.8; Bud Houser of Southern California, who put the shot for a new record of 50 feet 71§ inches; Harlow of Stan ford, who threw the javelin 201 feet 1% {inches; Lee Barnes of Southern California,, who broks the American ole vault record, 13 feet R inche: who threw the discus 154 inches, and Bondshu 2% inche As to the mile relay Stanford's | quartet won the event in the Pacific Conference games:in 3:17.6 whereas In winning this featurs at the Penn relays the Georgetown four did 3:19 4- Bo it looks as though all the Cal fornians would need at Cambridge to make the week end complete would he a- grove of eucalyptus trees in-| stalled on the banks of the placid (“harles River. Of the Eastern teams. Yale, Harvard and Princeton and Cornell and Penn syvlvania and Georgetown are likely to figure to some extent, but the oui look ix all tinzed by the merged colors of the three Pacific Slope institutions Not Likely to Repeat. the wind is likelv to blow on | of | fdflmil who broad jumped 24 feet | | Merigold. Ponser, Hunzer and Makeev er has imposed ~ handicap greate than even a coach of Andy uill's caliher can overcome. Wisconsin has | been seriously crippled by the loss of Schwaize and Elleson through in- eligibility. but even so the Badgers | will by no means he a nonentity The fact that the Big Ten meet this | vear is a closed one will affect the | comparative times and distances as between the I. . A. A. A. A. and, Western Conference games. A study | of records turned in by conference and non-conference track specialists in | the Middle Wesi this season shows | that the colleges outside of the con. | ference have been superior in the ter distances. { | PADDOCK TO ATTEMPT | | NEW 100-YARD RECORD Br the Associatad Press. LOS ANGELES. May 25.—The nm\ of a series of thres attempts to shat- ter the mark of 9.5 seconds for lh.' 100-yard dash. which he was clocked | |in here recently, will be made this | | afternoon by Charles Paddock. blond- | haired speedster of the Los Angeles| | Athletic Club. The atiempt will be held on a 150- * vard straightaway track. - Golf courses for their own use are laid_out by farmers in the | Wallace Motor Co. Seldom ha= a Western Conference ! track team that has won the indoor title failed 1o follow up by capturing the big outdoor meet as well. Only twice has this falled to happen. Towa won the 1926 indoor meet but | there dses not seem to Be any zreat Itkelthood that the Hawkeves will re. at. Michigan has had several points added to her practically certain total hy removal of the ban of ineligibility from some of her star performers. fllinois may crowd Michigan and has. of course, a chance to win. but it does seem as (hough the loss of such stars as Evans, Kinsey, Micher, job of maki There is scarcely —is possible only direct through the bolon_nunnny any &ides! $3. w Spalding has been at this equipment for 50 years . . . Making the shoes of track men, and baseball players, and football players. wear anything but ‘Spalding shoes. We offer you the-Spalding Golf Shoe —an athletic shoé—not .just a street shoe dressed up to.look like golf. The pnce of these shoes—$10 for most models Wnunt teullowyo%.m Then you'll never Took AP 1338 G STREET, N. W. means NASH Sales and Service 1709 L Street N.W. Just Fast of Conn. Ave. . | ~ Main7612 “The LAIRD” $15 ing athletic an athlete who will because they are sold Spaldmg Store. ASHINGTON, D. C. pur I ther ‘ » !i NOT THIS and athletic .managers of the six schools followed adoption of a resolu tion at a special meeting attended by representatives of 17 of the 20 col leges in the Ohio Conference last Fri day night prohibiting formation playing leagues within the conference and ordering the Buckeye association te dishand. The Buckeye includes but this is to develop a sense of se. curity and confidence. After one learns o swim he feels the same way about it he did after he learned 10 ride a bi- eyele. He cannot understand where the trick was. Why couldn't he have done it in the first place” Remaining afloat is the primary rea. -nr I;n" movement ||l| flw' :rlawh \z'hcl‘n | rimitive man received his first duek- | collazes which i nc. he moved in the water not for the | g 28 SO YITE ARSI e vse of getting anvwhere, but ra- | (hich have heen membhers thronghout of saving himself, keeping his |10 iclance. head up. 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SARNOFF-IRVING OHIO GONFERENCEs The action of faculty representatives | of | will he | | Your Old Hat | \HAWKINS retaining block. Flexibility “around the head, for.comfort. And that’s what you clear, brilliant braid and beautifully hand- worked detail. Choose yours today. : THREE WASHINGTON STORES TED MEREDITH IS 'CALLED GREATEST QUARTI?RMILER By the Associated Press’’ HILADELPHIA, May 28 I present 440-yard record of 47 2-5 seconds for the L. C.A A A A meet he ran the 100 yards in 10 seconds, the 220 in 21 4-5 and the 440 in 49, winning all three events. against Dartmouth in 1916, assured That afternoon’s. work. turned in me that Pennsylvaria's greatest run- ner was fit and ready for record-smashing. So declared Lawson Robert- son, Pennsylvania track coach, in recalling that notable cvent. “The_ninth assault on Meredith's auzr!cr mile mark is being made today and tomorrow at the Harvard Stadium and that golden anniversar. meet will round out_just half a hundred I..C. ALA A A | Robertson said. ; “I have heen asked whether I | think Meredith's record can be bro- | ken. My reply is, ‘Yes, but-——" And the 'hut' is that .the man te hreak the record must be a sound 10-sec- ond aprinter. “The May afternon {n 1916 when | | Meredith came racing down the long | | straightaway on his record ‘440" he | was trailing at the But he was following orders. most respected rival in that race w#s Westmore Willcox of Harvard. Will- | cox had done 48 seconds on two oc- casfons, and this was his last college | race. Meredith had an 830 final to | run an hour later, so T told him to | | hang close to Willcox's shoulder for | | the first half of the ‘440." Willcox Sets Pace. “In previous clashes with Mevedith | Willecox had hung hack and attemnt- ed the ardunus assignment of heating | | Ted with a driving finish. In this race he elected to go out from the | | gun, and 1t was this fact which made the record a possibility. eredith wae at the Harvard man's shoulder ax they whisked pagt the furicng posi in 214-5 and Ted forged ahead er teting the home stretch. Willcox war cpent by his early efforis that he hed fourth. | “The one-mile relay rave or has heen included in the intercal leglate outdoor champlonships. but if I had an opportunity 1» cheose an all-time one-mile relay team, pick- ing the men on the basis of speed | experience and reliability, T would | choose the four men in this arder: J. E. Meredith of Pennsylvania, Maxey W. Long of Columbis. Frank . 440-yard races, 1. Shea of Pittsburgh and Charles 1. Heidpath of Syracuse. All of these | men have won'T. % A, A. A. A. titles. and o my way of thinking they | would he from 7 1 than any_eombination, of runners in the past 25 years. “In_apite of the fart that Mavey Long is the accredited holder of (he world record for the quartes mfle, which he was timed in 47 flat, in my opinion a hetter perform- ance was mads in 1915 by J. E. Mere- dith at the national champlonships | in San Franeisco in the sepior 140 yards, in which he equaled Longzs mark. but the record was not al- lowed. Made in Paced Ih('!. “The mark of 47 seconds by Long was in the nature of a_paced race, in which_two runners, P. J. Walsh of ew York Athletic ‘Cluh and W. % sdwards of Knickerbocker Athlet fl major ! seating 1200 1321 F Mireor May 28 Nunn-Bush Ankle-Fashioned Oxfords Two weeks before Ted Meredith set the | 10 yards faster | in | seconds | AN ENTIRELY NEW KIND OF COLLAR_ ¢lub paced him for half of the dis tance on a specially prepared course on " the ‘ol Guttenherg race - track | some 25 years ago. Long was a mar. | velous . runner and his record of | 47 4-5 around a. handicap fleld at Trav-| ers Island subsequently proved. to my way of thinking, that he was the sec. bnd best. quarter-miler on record, in- | asmuch as Meredith's 47 2-6 at Cam- bridge in 1916 was run under about simllar conditions, “Meredith's record of 47 seconds, made in San Francisco. was not of- ficially allowed, because it was alleged that the wind aided the runner. | Strange a= it may neem, during the course of the afternoon the straight- away runners were helped by the wind, but at the particular moment | l-and during a short period afier the | start of the race the starter. John| |'McHugh. and athers officiating made the .. usual teat . determining the strength of the wind and rémarked | | that thers was ahsolutely no wind helping the runners at that fime. "Ac a proof of Meredith's meritori | nus performance it may be noted that | in winning the race he defeated Dinga | Dismofid “of Chicago (niversity by {over 8 vards. Dismond, who was sec ond in the race. =ubsequently ran a quarter mile in 4725 seconds. “Of the two performances, Long's | and Meredith's—I would suggest that Long's be classified as a noteworthy performance and a paced race. the |same as that in which Norman Taber |created a new mile record, and Mere dith's 47 seconds should be placed on the record books. CHISWICK. England. May 28 (). | Mre. Molla Mallory defeated Mrs. J. | Hill, 62, 6—3, In the fourth round | of the Middlesex lawn tennis tourna- ment. 1 L ‘NEBRASKA TO CLAIM RECORDS FOR LOCKE By the Nebr., May 28.--The !'ni versity of Nebraska and fts sprinting act. Roland Locke, in particular, will he firmly intrenched in the firmamen! of track starg and record smasher< if the Cornhuskers’ 1326 feats are of ficially accepted by the National Ama teur “Athletie Union. Athletic officials at Nebraska tomor row will forward 1o hoth the Natlonal A. A. 1. and the National Interce! jate A. A. records of the Nebra Comet™ and his running mates. Re ognition “of the follawing feats songht 100 vard dash. 9610 seconds. made by Locke at the Migwouri Valley Con ference mest and at the Kansas re £ Ties the world record now held Charles Paddock 220-yard dash. 20 hy Locke at the dual meet. and 20 7.10 seconds. mada hy Locke at the Missour! Valley m Roth are lower than Paddock's time of 20 3-10 seconds. lalf-mile relay, made by Nehraska (Hein, Dafley, Davenport and Lacke) fn 1 minute 26610 seconds at the Kansas relays. i« | by 10 seconds. made fssouri-Nehraska The Fnglish Derby ix considered the greatest racing event in the warld. A long, tough ball that stays white ! You get even more than that when you buy the Goodyear. In addition you get accuracy and unexcelled re- sponse on iron club play. 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