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...Lawler of the B. A. A. and Eastman are rated on a par as the best men, while in the hammer throw Dandrow of the B. A. A. will give Marshall, the nearest competitor, a ten foot advantage. Plansky of Georgetown and Greendige are the scratch men in the javelin throw, while in the discus event Carpenter, Clapp, unattached, and Dandrow of the B. A. A. will all compete with no handicap...
...Gourdin '21, winner of the broad jump in the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge meet two years ago, will take part in his favorite event on Saturday as well as in the 100-yard dash, the shot put, and the discus and javelin throws...
While the University track team, winning third in the shot put, fourth in the javelin, and fifth in the discus, was collecting six points for eleventh place in the forty-seventh annual intercollegiate meet Saturday, the California athletes gathered a total of 39 1-2 points, only three of which were won on the track, thereby taking for the third consecutive year the title from all the eastern competitors. Princeton, with 33 points, was second best, while the Yale team, which won ten points less than the Tigers, took third place from Pennsylvania by a half-point margin. Following Pennsylvania...
...outstanding performance for the Crimson Saturday, was Greenidge's 181 foot 7 1-2 inch javelin throw, which gave him third place and establishes a new College record. The former mark, which Greenidge hung up in the Princeton meet last week was 180 feet 6 inches. Storrs of Yale, hurling the spear only 11 inches short of the 200-foot mark, won the event and established a new intercollegiate record. Eastman, making the best heave of his career with the 16-pound shot, won fourth place in that event with a mark of 45 feet 1-2 inch. Although falling...
Neufeldt of California, with five points in the discus, four in the javelin, and two in the shot put, was the high individual scorer of the meet. Although he falled to better his 181 foot 6 1-2 inch-hammer throw of Friday, Tootell of Bowdoin, was one of the outstanding performers of the meet, as was Comins of Yale, who broad jumped 24 feet 4 inches. Woodring of Syracuse placing first in the 440-yard and second in the 220-yard runs, and Taylor of Princeton, winning the low hurdle race, and following Woodring across the line...