Stanford in Philadelphia

For a Stanford Junior to win the British Amateur Golf Championship was a novelty last week (see above). The prospect of a Stanford track team winning the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America championship was nothing of the sort. California teams had won for nine consecutive years. When Southern California decided not to send a team to Philadelphia last week, Stanford's Coach Dink Templeton felt that a "skeleton" team of seven Stanford men would be enough to take 35 points and title against some 600 of the best athletes in the U. S. Points at Intercollegiate meets are scaled down from five for a first place to one for a fifth. Usually seconds, thirds and fourths add up to more than a few showy firsts. With a small team of versatile athletes, Stanford last week did almost exactly what Coach Templeton expected it would. John Lyman, with a throw of 53 ft. 2 3/4in., set a new intercollegiate shot-put record. Second place in the same event went to Gordon Dunn. Dunn and Lyman also placed first and second in the discus throw. Two more spectacular firsts--Blackman's in the 400-meter run, Klopstock's in the 200-meter hurdles--gave Stanford the bulk of her points, 35 1/4, for the title, to Yale's 25 1/2. California's five-man team was third with 20. Two firsts by Bob Kiesel (100-meter and 200-meter sprints), piled up half of California's score. P: Only man beside Kiesel to win two firsts was Princeton's famed Bill Bonthron. He won the 1,500-meter run easily, with Penn's Venzke second. In the 800-meter race, he started his sprint late, suddenly found himself blocked by a line of runners across the track, wove through the field like a football player to beat Manhattan's Bill Ray by inches.

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