Stanford's Third

In eight of the last nine annual meets of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, a track team from California has come out on top. Last year and the year before the winner was Stanford. Last week, on Franklin Field in Philadelphia, it was Stanford again, with 45 3/8 points, the highest total since the War.

Second, with 21 points, came the University of Southern California. Followed Pennsylvania with 18 7/8, New York University with 14, Yale with 13 5/8.

Stanford had a 14-man team. Twelve qualified, two twice. Though Easterners won ten individual titles to the Westerners' five, with one triple tie, eleven of Stanford's twelve qualifiers scored points in the finals.

N. Y. U.'s captain, Phil Edwards, a wiry Negro, dashed the half-mile in 1 min., 52 2/10 sec., breaking the intercollegiate record set in 1916 by famed James E. (Ted) Meredith. Stanford's Harlow Rothert put the 16-lb. shot 50 ft. 3 in. For 51 years college athletes had tried in vain to better 50 ft. Last year Rothert's teammate, Eric Krenz, succeeded with a heave of 50 ft. 1 in. This year Rothert broke that record twice in one sunshiny afternoon. Krenz came second with 50 ft. 5/8 in. Captain Jimmy Reid of Harvard, intercollegiate title holder, ran two miles in 9 min., 22 sec., breaking a record set ten years ago by Cornell's Ivan C. Dresser. Southern California's Jesse Hill broad-jumped 25 ft. 7/8 in., another intercollegiate record. Yale's Sidney Kieselhorst, champion last year, did the 220-yd. low hurdles in 23 3/10 sec., breaking a record which had stood since 1898--almost. Officials refused to allow Kieselhorst his record because of a "tail wind." For the first time, three intercollegians threw the javelin more than 200 feet--Stanford's Leo Kibby winning with 204 ft 7 in.

Harvard's athletes took examinations at their hotel, finished twelfth in the meet. Newscameras sought out the Dartmouth captain, because his name is Gerard Swope Jr., son of the General Electric president.

He finished fifth in the quarter-mile run.