Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-06-03 | Page 29 | Coloradoans Win National Meet Fort Collins High Boys Triumph

S SI I Win National Meet Sore Score A All ii Six Places Place in ill Han Hammer jiner Fort Collins High Boys Triumph STAGG FIELD FIEL Chicago June 2 AP AP-A AP A group of high school boys I who knew the art of ot hammer throwIng throw throw- I Ing Ing- g led Fort Fort Collins Colo Cob to its is third national track an ted title tte in four years year today ThE ThO mountain boys bos made a clean cean sweep s of all al six places in tho the hammer ham ham- mer meg to score 31 of ot their 56 points incidentally four tour national interscholastic lastic records were shattered and andone andone andone one new meet mark bettered FROEBEL HIGH SECONDo SECOND Fro o bel high of Gary Ind was rU to the Rocky MountaInS Mountain S te team m with 38 points poInts Libbey high of ot Toledo Ohio and Tilden Technical Technical Tech Tech- of ot Chicago tied ted for third place honors with 26 points each DI Okla Okla ranked next next with wih 22 2 points Cass CUs high of ot Detroit and Baton ton Rouge following each with wih 20 points pints While Fort Collins carried off of the team honors a large share of ot the glory went to Lowell Allen Alien Alen of ot Salem Sa Sa- lem Olo Don Bennett Bennet of ot Libbey high Toledo Ohio and Stanley Stanle Stokes of ot Baton Rouge La L. L Allen Alen a slight youngster who bear bears tho the nickname Little Lite lUb soared to a new record height heigh in the pole polo vault He pulled lt over the bar at 13 1 feet 3 3 16 inches to better vetter the mark of ot 12 feet 10 2 1 Inches made by Thomas Thomas' Warne of i Kokomo Ind 2nd In 1927 N NEW W HURDLE RECORD Stokes set a new national interscholastic inter- inter scholastic record for the tho yard hurdles taking the time barriers in th remarkable time of ot 15 2 After Af Af- Af- Af ter his performance in the hl high hish h hur hur- dies he came back in the low hurdles hurdles hur hum dies to defeat Beatty Beaty negro star of ot Northeast high Detroit Detroi and holder of ot the national interscholastic record record record rec rec- ord for tor tho tOrn low hurdle event Bennett furnished two events of the da day defeating a trio of ot negro stars in the dashes In the century ho led Jed Ralph of and Willie Fowlkes Fowikes of ot Central high hight of t Ind md to the tp tape tapo with wih three yards ards to spare Holder of Marion Marlon Kan Kan the other negro dash favorite failed to place The furlong furlong furlong fur fur- long was a reproduction of the century cen tury with wih Bennett Bennet running a beautiful beautiful beau beau- race to defeat Metcalfe Fowlkes Fowikes and Holder who finished in the order named RELAY MARKS F FALL LL A national record and meet meet record record rec rec- ord smashed in a series of ot brilliant relays Tho The Morristown Tenn Term quartet of ot half milers haI raced to the new v national record in irs the two rule event event In 82 7 10 four seconds under the old mark made by the Galesburg III team in 1927 Central high of ot Columbus Ohio with a a great quartet quartet of ot quarter milers broke the University of ot Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago Interscholastic record for tot the themie mile mie relay Time was 3 10 more than four seconds better beter than Brazil Brazi Ind made last year car With the exception o of a lone point picked up in the high hurdles hur hur- dies Fort Collins concentrated all al of Its scoring In the field events and relays Froebel of Gary Ind md counted counte 20 of ot its Is points in the the- quarter mile mie when Kelley eley won the second division division division divi divi- sion of the tho event and led the field in the third section Nug Nug- nis' nis time was 51 seconds