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Show n IFRRNIA TO j'IE aAJ jEj's Bw Eears Expect ad to Grab Honor in dar ard Title Meet CAMDPvIDGK. Mass-. May 27. (By The Associated Press) It was still the west against th- east today In the alignment in athli tic forces for the final events of th' intercollegiate A. I A. A. A., 46th an.iual tiack and field championships. Thousands of enthusiasts enthus-iasts went to fhe Harvard stadium to see the youth of .TO of the country's colleges In actlOh; with a general agreement that California would win the meet. ItlXORO EXCELLED. In the preliminaries California wifh a team of 15 moii. qualified entrants for 1T men. Johnny Merchant, the stocky Callfornian with the built and power of a Wrestler, qualified in four events and incidentally broke the intercollegiate in-tercollegiate record for throwlns the lG-pound hammer with his mighty heave of 171 feet, 2 inches Stanford. th rival of California University, with a 10-man squad, qualified qual-ified 10-atbJetes. The probabilities today to-day are that Cornel), 1'rlnceton. Stanford Stan-ford and Pennsylvania would fight it j out for second pla . Cornell qualified quali-fied 13 men. No direct conflict of strength between California and Cor- I ncll was Indicated as the former has strength In field events, in which all but four of its men advanced and the Ithaeans had their point possibilities more nearly centered In the runs HTJSA1 in i: Rl Ni I ; s GOOD. I It was expected mat lh' athletes would produce a high quality of run-ninr; run-ninr; and field efforts and that several sev-eral would surpass previous records Close finish' i wer i eitaln in nearly all the race', although the field events in some Instances Included outstanding outstand-ing athletes whose efforts were likely like-ly to stand unapproached. In the short-runhing vents, semifinals semi-finals were still to bo held before the competition that carries the points. Weather conditions, excellent Friday, Fri-day, were good again today. oo |
