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There is still time to enter the broad-jump, javelin, and all running events, which are to be held tomorrow...
...Johnson is favored to take the 100. His 9.8 in the Metropolitan Intercollegiates last Friday is just two-tenths of a second better than King of Dartmouth, and Millett of Yale have done thus far this season. Not so easy will he find the 220 and the broad-jump, however, for Millett has done 21.4 against Columbia's 21.6, and Ethridge of Yale creates a threat by his 21 ft., 4 in. jump of last weekend...
...House page. Christened James Cleveland Owens, he became Jesse when a teacher at Cleveland's Fairmount Junior High School to whom he gave his initials mistook them for his first name. He was too shy to correct her. Before he left high school he had won the U.S. broad-jump title, run 100 yd. in 9.4 sec. The 100-yd. world record, set by Southern California's Frank Wykoff in 1930, has never been broken but it has been tied so frequently that until this spring it appeared closer than any other to a final definition...
Like the Penn Relays, Drake's were distinguished by the performance of Negro sprinters. Ohio State's long, limber Jesse Owens placed a scrap of white paper 26 ft. from the broad-jump takeoff board, just 2 ⅛ inches short of the world's record made in Japan four years ago by Chuhei Namb. His legs twinkled down the takeoff. He shot into the air like a brown bullet. When he landed he was f of an inch short of Nambu's mark but his 26 ft. if in. was a new U. S. record. Next...
...Woodward, all of whom were scoring men for last year's Varsity or Freshman teams. Crimson runners should not lose a first place in the distance events, with Captain Scheu, Woodard, Playfair, Pier, Roys, and Webster to take the mile and two-mile. Calvin and Green in the broad-jump; and Woodberry, Schumann, and Dubiel in the pole-vault complete the roll of top-scorers...