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Married. Frank Clifford Wykoff, 24, onetime University of Southern California sprinter, joint holder of the world's 100-yd. dash record (9.5 sec.): and one Ethel Mae Richardson of Glendale, Calif.; in Glen- dale...
...Lovelock's run was merely one of the six meet record-breaking performances of the afternoon. Stanwood, a former Bowdoin man, did yeoman service for Oxford with records in both hurdle events, Brown's pole-vault, mentioned before, was a record; E. E. Calvin '35, tenacious Crimson sprinter equaled the meet mark with a 9.8 second century run; Jackson of Yale beat out J. H. Dean '34 in the shotput for a clean record; E. I. David, diminutive sprinter clocked a record 220-yard run for the Light Blue; Mabey of Oxford ran a beautiful two-mile race...
...last year's seniors were off the U. S. C. team, it looked as though Stanford had a fine chance to come back-even though everyone knew that Quarter-miler Ben Eastman has been off form this spring, that Pole-vaulter Bill Miller had hurt his foot, that Sprinter Les Flables had a bad knee. When Stanford qualified 14 men in the trials to Southern California's 15, the case still looked hopeful. The 14 were mostly field athletes whose records were sure to stand up for points while U. S. C.'s runners might be beaten...
...runners pile up a lead of 42 points to 22, after eight events. Stanford's total went up as the field event results became final. After 13 events, the score was 42 to 42, with one more race to run. It was the 200-metre final. No Stanford sprinter had qualified and all Southern California's lean, blond, curly-headed Charley Parsons-son of Coach Dean Cromwell's college and teammate Charles B. Parsons-needed was a fifth place in the six-man race. The runners crouched at the start. The field spread going away from...
...month in an auto accident, watched Penn's one-mile relay team (Edwards, Schaeffer, Jones. Healey) run the second fastest race in Penn Relay history, with Yale second and N. Y. U., the favorite, third. In Des Moines, at the 24th Drake Relay Carnival: Ralph Metcalfe, famed Negro sprinter of Marquette, after three days of outdoor practice, retained his 100-yd. championship (but failed to set the new record of 9.2 sec. he had hoped for), ran as anchor man on the Marquette team that beat Nebraska in the 880-yd. relay. Indiana's Big Ten champion hammer...