Show Texas Jack Rabbit Acclaimed Greatest Hurdler of Them All NEW YORK June 10 INS INS INS- White-haired White Dan Ferris who Ferris who is Mrs A. A A. A U Ui himself s himself summed it all up today when he said Never in my 40 years association association association with track athletes have a aseen aseen aseen seen a hurdler like that Texas jackrabbit Several eastern coaches nodding nodding nodding nod nod- ding in stunned agreement knew that Dan was referring to Fred Wolcott a scissor-legged scissor hombre from Rice institute We were all an sure continued Dan that if any world records would stand up for years it would be those set by Jesse Owns And yet there comes this lad Wolcott and erases Owens' Owens best marks for forthe forthe forthe the meter and yard hurdles hurdles hur hur- dies in one race And just to make it a perfect day he clips the American mark for the yard hurdles We thought we ve had some great hurdlers here in the east And we have Jay Shields Ted Day Ed Dugger and others are wonderful timber toppers But they dont don't class with marvels like Wolcott or Boyce from Texas university It was Gatewood who chased Wolcott almost to a dead heat Inthe in inthe inthe the high hurdles and then in the shuttle relay between Yale and Texas spotted Shields a three- three yard handicap on the last leg and beat the Yale star by four yards All this happened Saturday at atthe atthe atthe the Princeton invitation meet where the west vest and southwest captured captured captured cap cap- six of the seven events |