| Show Backseat t Driving I By Frank K Baker Telegram Sports Editor Athletic 1 Fame Generally Flies Away The fame of ot the athlete is fleeting thatis that thatis giving way to a mellow memory is overshadowed by bj the brilliance of another rising s star r. r When Reid es outgrew East high school and rose to fame at fullback fullback full back for the University of ot Utah Ulah he was hailed as a near unit for the Redskin football ma chine He has been graduated a long lone longtime time now however and b big g as was the gap he left in the lineup the Redskins have been far for from suffering suffer suHer ing jag because of ot inferior Rather th the Utes have been happily hap supplied with great fullbacks ever e since The ink had scarcely before dried on Jewkes' Jewkes diploma Jack Howells product of ot West Vest and L. L D. D S S. S high schools was making the Utah fans forget torget the loss of Jewkes Shifted from halfback to full Howells played sensational ball Like Jewkes his graduation was the signal for mourning but practically cally unwarranted for one Earl Powerhouse Pomeroy drifted in from Mesa Ariz to carry carryon on the good work and he had no sooner laid aside the moleskins himself than Frank Christensen hove have on the scene to not only do a 3 splendid job of playing play in ing but also to prove pro such a congenial conS con genial virile leader that his hi mates broke a precedent to elect him captain cap tam tain for two years in a row It will willever willever I I ever be thus Stars rise and arc gone in a hurry Some it ft is true retain ri a mellow spot in the hearts o or orthe of the fans long after their playing days are arc over aver but always it is some sonic new player who rises to take a turn atthe at atthe th the fame iame which is so fleeting New Stars Make One Forget the Old When George Simpson the sprint sprIntS sprinter er or er and Dick Rockaway hurdler were graduated from Ohio State campus d nned the sackcloth sackcloth sack cloth and there was long and loud wailing Only once in a lifetime could such a pair of ol stars be expected expect ed to appear on the same team it was said Yet in two years Simpson and Rockaway are forgotten Now it is Donald Bennett the sprinter and andI I Kack ack Keller the hurdler Bennett Bennett- with his 95 for the hundred and for the furlong probably could match strides any day with Simpson truly a great sprinter too Rockaway never saw the day when he could accomplish what Keller Kel ler has done in the barrier races True the lanky Buckeye hurdler was aided b by a wind in speeding through the yard high barrier event in 14 seconds flat recently but there is no den denying ing him the glory of his world world breaking performance of seconds in the yard hurdles during th the intercollegiate meet at Chicago afterwards Expected to run a great greal race rac with Saling of Iowa in the high hur hurdles lles Keller got off olf to a bad start and re second place to a teammate team mate Black while the tho Hawkeye flashed on on to a new worlds world's record of of seconds clipping three three- tenths of ot a second from Earl Thompsons Thompson's Thompsons Thompsons Thompson's Thomp Thomp- sons son's accepted record at Dartmouth in 1920 Thompsons Thompson's mark was tied later by E. E of Sweden These new records make It a far cry from the old d days ys when a hurdler who did 16 seconds flat tint was fast enough for tor anybody's meet Or consider the achievements achieve ments meats of ot Ralph Metcalfe Ir Mar Mn quette queUe negro nero sophomore who broke three worlds world's records and equaled another In the same af d. Saling and Keller tithed their records By Dy his per Metcalfe becomes the greatest around all sprinter since Charley Chancy Paddock was In his hb prime a dozen years ago aro In equaling the accepted worlds world's mark of 95 sec for tor the century Metcalfe went wenton on to cover the meters In seconds two tenths of a second faster than Paddocks Paddock's world mark set In 1921 lie He also ran the in tenth one of a second eco ld taster faster than Roland Locke Locke's world record made In 1926 and the meters In three tenths of a second un an der Lockes Locke's world orld mark Times Change Even EvenIn In Athletics Boyd Comstock Los Angeles Ath letic club track coach once quite a hurdler for tor the University of South ern era California tells one of the best track yarns indicative of the changes that have taken place in track and field regulations In those da days s 's disqualification did not face fa-ce the runner who knocked over a given number of hurdles That lib erty inspired Comstock to develop the art art artof of getting to the tape first by a 1 practice of hurdle bumping He even went so EO far as to protect his ankles with shin guards In fact he developed the practice of bumping the hurdles over so well his lane often otten looked like a 1 swath of new mown hay with few if it any bar bar- remaining in an erect position after he had run the race It clearly was a case for the rules committee but somebody equally as cunning as Comstock himself beat the governing body to the punch In a dual meet between the Trojans and Occidental college someone spiked the hurdles to the track Com Corn stock says sas to this day he has not crossed the second barrier of that race What's Whal's more he be quit the tice lice of bumping Wrestling lg Last Night Dy cay ti the Associated Press New York York York-Ed Ed Strander Lew An Lewis is Lo Los eles threw Sam Barn Stein 20 Newark 70 47 New Haven nen Conn DIe DIck Dick Phil PhU adelphia threw Mc od Okla Okia- homa 2903 Roland Okla Okla- horns homa threw Lilo Nardi Italy ItAI 1423 Baltimore red I Fred H r m. m I Is 1 threw Kotsonaros 20 Holly Holly- wood Vi 1953 k J Jim e h threw r Frank t Now New o York qu Quebec qu-ji qu b Jim Browning Verona eron Mo Mo defeated Tacoma V Vh V h. h t two o of falls tails San Dr K Karl nl Cleveland defeated Bob nob Kruse Port Port- land Ore two of ot three falls flIs Me he he Coloman Coleman 23 New York and Nick NItI Pu ala Ia drew John Sweden Swede to toj-ed toj d Wild Bill Donovan New York 1100 CLUBS PLAY TIE TIC GAME GAltIE Batemans Bateman's Seeders played an 88 8 tie tic game with Temptation Inn the first half hall champs Monday in the Sandy San San- dy Comm Commercial baseball league Batemans Bateman's Batemans Bate Bate- mans man's Temptation tion but coul couldn't nt win on account of errors |
