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Fifteenth men are entered in the 75-yard dash, major event of this afternoon's competition, with trials scheduled for 3.30 o'clock and finals for 4.05 o'clock. The javelin throw at 2 o'clock will see new performers given handicaps of as much as 15 feet, while the handicap in much as 15 feet, while the handicap in the high jump, set for 3 o'clock, generally varies from one to eight inches. Other events are the shot put, staged in the old cage at 3.30 o'clock, the 70-yard high hurdles at 3.45 o'clock...
...A.U.S. team of track & field athletes: a meet against the combined teams of South African and Transvaal Universities, at Johannesburg, South Africa; by winning ten out of twelve events, in four of which (discus, pole-vault, shot-put, javelin-throw) Pennsylvania's Bernard ("Barney") Berlinger made new South African records...
...skinny legs are well suited to the high hurdles; Leo Lermond, New York Athletic Club miler, who got off to practice on the way to Lincoln every time the train stopped; Wilson Charles, Oneida Indian decathlon champion, whose foremost rival was large and angular Jess Mortensen, onetime Southern California javelin-throwing champion; George Spitz, N. Y. U. freshman who high-jumped well over six feet when he was a school boy and now holds the world's unofficial indoor record; Barney Berlinger, Pennsylvania's all-around man; Herman Brix, blond Los Angeles giant who had won the shot...
There was not much doubt about the early events on Saturday. Kenneth Churchill won five points for California and set a new intercollegiate record by throwing the javelin 220 ft. 11? in. No one else could do 200 ft. Stanford's Jones won the discus throw without much trouble, with a Southern Californian second and Henri Laborde of Stanford third. Eddie Tolan, Michigan's little Negro sprinter who holds the official world record (9.5 sec.) for the distance, was entered in the 100-yd. dash, but Frank Wykoff of Southern California, whose unofficial record is 9.4 sec., beat...
...mile from as field including McNiff of Pennsylvania and the defending champion Bullwinkle, made up for Sutermeister's forced absence from the vaulting. Fox placed sixth in the two-mile; Harding, a duplication of whose 190-foot throw in the Stadium would have earned him points in the javelin, did only 179 feet. The Crimson's other points came from a fifth place in the half-mile by Cobb; and second place in the low hurdles by Record. The Crimson's 15 3-7 points, a fraction over eight less than the number scored last year when Harvard finished third...