Track & Field

In the National Collegiate Athletic Association championships at Soldier Field, Chicago:

P:Glenn Cunningham, Kansas University's famed middle-distance man, ran away from his field in the mile, won with a new U. S. record of 4 min., 9.8 sec.

P:Ralph Metcalfe, huge Negro of Marquette, equaled the world's record (9.4 sec.) in the 100-yd. dash, set a new one, of 20.4 sec., in the 220.

P:Indiana's Charles Hornbostel, beaten in the mile, lumbered past Cunningham in the stretch of the 880-yd. run, won by two inches with a world's record of 1:50.9.

P:Jack Torrance of Louisiana State threw a 16-lb. shot 52 ft., 10 in.--two inches farther than the accepted world's record.

P:Bill Graber of Southern California, whose pole-vaulting won the intercollegiate championship for his team in 1931, was unexpectedly tied by Matthew Gordy of Louisiana State, at 14 ft. The tie gave Louisiana State the points it needed to win the meet, with a seven-man squad, in the most surprising upset of the season, 58 points to Southern California's 54. Competing in the 29th Annual Interscholastic championships at Soldier Field the same day, Jesse Owens, Negro star of Cleveland's East Technical High school, tied the world's record in the 100-yd. dash; broke the interscholastic record in the 220; won the broad-jump with his third record of the day, 24 ft., 9 5/8 in.

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