PAGE 8 By Warren Spitz Their hearts aglow like an eve- ning star, Five hundred athletes from near and for, Ron round the track, jumped over the bar, At the Thirteenth Illinois Tech Relays. The Midwest’s cream in the classic supreme, Giving their best to win for their team; Put on a show, like you’ve never seen, Another successful Tech Relays. It’s one more year, ’til they’re again here To be spurred on with o yell and a cheer, John Schommer all Illinois.- Tech will revere For the Thirteenth Annual Tech Relay . Let Us take Time Out to CGI’ESltL er the magnitude of people more senteci at an event such as the Tech Relays. Forty universities and colleges sent over five lion- dred athletes to participate in the games. If the average institute of higher learning has an enrollment of about 2000, then the llliuoie Tech Relays represents more than. 50,000 students alone plus thou» sands of Chicago sports cutlmulr fists, ofiiclalo and business men. Almost everything about the meet Saturday night get a cow record in the series of Tech Re.» lay’o successes. The oumimr of schools and athletes particlpailog excelled all expectations. The ou— diencc was large and the compell— tion was keeper than over. The crowd was surprised at the poor showing of Bill Williams, Wisconsin pole-vaulter, but few lmew that Bill was suffering from a leg injury and every step was a noble effort. Injuries kept lily- ron Plker, Northwestern sprint ace, and many other noto’olco on the sidelines. Don Olson, llllools hurdler and Big Ten Champ, bolt- ed his team and went to another track to steal honors there. We can definitely say that for many of the athletes their partici- pation in the Relays was the great- est event in their lives. This cer- tainly holds true for Bob lemme loo of the University of Cl‘licago. Bob is a sophomore and had nev- er vaulted above thirteen feet. Sat- urday he made thirteen feet, six inches and everyone will remem- ber Bob’s unsuppressed joy as he bugged Coach Neel Merriam alter attaining the best effort of his ca- rear. Many other participants and non-participants e x p e all e r. c e (l thrills during the night, as event after event ran ofi’ smoothly and with the precision and fine caliber of one race excelled only by the next. Congratulations, John J. Schommer, upon guiding another Illinois Tech Relays to a glorious success. @ —‘I Honor 1, Illinois Tech’s ath- letic honorary society, opens this season’s social activities with a theater party. The active mem- bers are going to see the outstand- ing movie of the year, “Fantasia.” March 26 has been set as the date for the event. All actives are requested to make reservations with Roger Mueller, Bill Bauch or “Sonny” Weissman. TECHNfllDOGE NEWS $wlosrolop lasso? Eoole gesture; lose Moots go we Poole; gulch limelvolcl lilocl-ecl ”limo floplolucy {it booed By Fred DeMoney Culminating a season’s cilort fighting the green waves of Bart-v lett and other pools, the Illinois Tech’s swimming team hold its last meet of the current year against DePauw university last Saturday night at Barlett Pool ol‘ the University of Chicago. The Techawks put up a valiant battle, which rose to a keen pitch at the finish but the Hoosier’s power was too great. and the lads in Scarlet and Gray went down in a glori‘ cos 4026 defeat. Lose to Boloit. On the night before the Dollauw fiasco, the llchillivroymcu drop poll 2: light meet to Bololt lo a return engagement. Illinois Tech drove to within six points of whipping the Wisconsin lads as the score 3030 indicates. In the Beloit contest, Tech relay squads won. The medley event of Hux— holll, Koos, and Ratlomachor paced the Belolt trio. Later Earl Huxl‘sold swam his best time of the your in the 100mm back stroke as all entries touched in o blanket finish. “l‘lux’s” Limo was 1:112 From the very beginning to the moment when the lads heav- ed manager Dick. l..arsou into the drink “with” clothes on ctol, the Bellamy encounter was without a (lull, moment. Each race was {730358, and Tech set an “unofficial” varsity record in the IZO—fllrtl medley relay. George Boeiemacher tool: a third in the «lllyord free style, Carl Kooo flipped his way to a close second behind the unbeaten Jack Ketch em in the lob-yard breast etrolte. cull Dick ‘l‘alcott and Earl Hurt» / bold finished second and third, ros- pcctlvclvx' in the 100-;varrl bacl»: ‘ race. In the (living event “5‘_ a matter of four points sep- arated coach of the first three men entered. Tech ‘Wlns Relays Alter the diving, the score stood at Dcl’auw 40, llllnois ’l‘ccb M. Then came the medley relay. Hux- llold got oil" to a quarter length’s lead over Johnson in the back stroke. Theo K009. plunged in and kept the margin the breast stroke leg. With perfect coordination, the liams—Rademacher exchange sent the free styler into the blue. Aft. or lecmuchcr had churned the waves: to a frothy white and had finished ahead of Paxton, the Hoosier flash, it was announced that the locals dad travcsed the distance in 1:084, an unofficial Tec- bawl: record. in the loll—yard free style relay, the Taylor, Mankus, 'l‘alcott, and Blumc combine whipped the De l’auw quartet in as tight a race as ever has been grunted in Bartlett. These last two Wins gave the Too hawks 12 more points for their to- tal. and made the final score 40- 26. After the meet, the team promptly gave Dick Larson the time-honored dunking ceremony. in a brief meeting that followed the swimmers elected Earl Hux' hold, junior civil, to lead them in next year’s campaign. Jerry Bunce, junior chemical, was elect- ed the new manager. ’Arnie’ Four Years On Team Blume Ends Free styler, back stroker, then free stylermthat’s the cyclic no ture of Arnold E. Blume, the cap- tain of Illinois ’l‘ech’s swimming team. Arnie was a free style man at Maine Township high school. At the time Mr. Blame was a Des Plainos B.M.O. and. Maine was state champion in the aquatic sport. For three straight years Maine kept the cup, symbolic of supreme swimming p r o w r e s 3 throughout the state. After Arnie g'uduated from door old Maine he enrolled at Ar- mour in the Architectural dept. That was way back in September, Captain ‘llmlo‘ Illumo 1937. l-lc immediately went out for Ibo swil'oming team, and won a berth not as a free stylor, but as a back strokes. For three years Blumc swam upside down, win- ning: bio specialty, the 100-yard beck stroke. Then this your, after being; elected captain he turned over and started to swim on his tummy again. He now swims the ll’lyoru climb, the 100~yard sprint end anchors the free otylc relay team. Holds Two Major Letters One minor and two major let.- tem has Arnold Blumc. He sports their; not uulrcquently in the pre- sence of his artist friend, Ginny hllrocbt. rod-headed native of Des l’lolucs also. During the summer mol‘atlle Arnie works as a life guard on the city’s beaches. As a membm of Honor “I", Mr. Blumc fulfills the purposes of that organ- lxallop by representing to the stu- dent body that type of an athletic loader whom all follow athletes admire. lxleeouerrEWAN RUNS 70 YD. DASH PRELlMS IN on Wine hours of thrilling track and field events began at three- tbmy last Saturday afternoon. Tbirtynine colleges and univer- sitieo adorned the University of Chicago’s fieldhouse at the time. in the preliminary 70vyard dash, Littler of Nebraska went the dis- tance in :07.3 but Milieu of Mar- quette did it in 207.2. Millen’s time was 1/10 of a second slower than the Relay record. Taylor of Wilson and Mayer of Iowa Teachers came through with :07.4 in the college division. III was able to qualify Barry in the 70-yard 10W hurdle but he missed out in the semi-finals. Again, Horvath and Kahler came through with fast time in the uni- versity division. Mayer of Iowa State Teachers pulled down the honors in the other section with an :08.3. Mayer then turned around, walked back; to the start and won his heat in the 70-yard dash semi-finals. Taylor of Wilson won the other heat. Both men were timed at 207.4. Eugene ’Red' Littler Proud To Establish Tech Relays Record By Earl Sherman Just a smiling little redhead; a more 100 pound young man. But every pound is loaded with dyna- mite, for this is a description of Eugene Littler, Nebraska’s great sprint star who competed in the Illinois Tech Relays; last. Satur— day. In 1940 as an unheralded soph- omore this speed demon came to the Tech Relays and pulled a start- ling upset by copping both the 70~yard dash and 4401:1111 run ti~ tlos. This began a series of pho- ncmenal victories for the Nebras» ka flash. llrcalw IMO-yard Record Last. Saturday at the Relays, Littler returned to the scene of his first conquest. This time he shone even more brilliantly in easily taking the 70-yard dash, and then setting a new Tech Ro- lays record in winning the M0 yard mug, in the speedy time of 40.3 seconds. After winning Little)" sold to your Technology News reporter, “I’m glad I cracked the record in the 440 to give an added thrill to this fine meet. I was trying es- pecially hard to gel; the record as this might be my last year at the Relays.” Rogers Upsets Favorites Another unheralded star rose to fame by upsetting the advance predictions at this year’s Relays. He was Winston Rogers of Lin- coln College, who soared to grout heights in the high jump. This tall colored lad from Jefferson, Missouri easily jumped 6 feet 3% inches to annex the open high jump championship. It was reputed that Rogers had gone as high as 6 feet 7 inches (his year. The highly touted Uni- versity jumpers, Don and Jimmy Smith of Northwestern, Moreau of Wisconsin and Ray of Chicago, were expected to take this college upstart, but when the high jump~ mg battle was over Rogers was found to have gone a wee bit high- er than his rivals. ltahlcx- ’Whipc Horvatln Another upset occurred in the 70yard low hurdles. Bob Kalxler a lanky Nebraskan shot to victory in a thrilling race. This Nebras~ ko upsetter beat the best efforts of l—lorvath and Finch of North- wcetcm, Towle of Wisconsin, and Hale of Illinois, the Big Ten’s outstanding hurlcrs. Leading the Wisconsin squad to a team victory was that stellar trackman and All~American full- back, George Paskvan. This soft spoken giant put the shot 47 feet 9 inches to give Wisconsin its only first place while winning the University team title of the Tech Relays. Fouls E’revcm Record Paskvan expressed his opinion that the large number of athletes blend perfectly with the many in- dividual stars to make the Tech Relays an impressive meet. Big George seemed disappointed that he didn’t come close to the record for the Relays of 51 feet. Several of his throws were slightly over 50 feet, but he had the misfortune to foul on these. Later Paskvan said, “Too bad my Big Ten rival Archie Harris of Indiana isn't here to really make the competition keen. I just beat him in the Big Ten indoor meet with a throw of 50 feet, and will be lucky to repeat when we meet outdoors." Here’s hoping for George’s continued success. MARCH 1‘0, will ”Hilltop colours W3 By Art lone ‘llll Editor’s note: This column is be ing written once again by Art Jens, FEE ’31 who was the first sports editor of what was then the Armour Tech News in 1929. He originated the sports column Tech Shorts. Year after year the Tech Relays are a success and year after year, Art Jens is on the job officiating, writing and repre. senting Illinois Tech good—will. Lucky thirteen in the long suc- cession of Tech Relays went into the dust of the University of Chi cago field house last Saturday with any number of notable per- formances but without a single record breaker of importance. It has come to be expected that the Tech most would in the course of events produce new records each year that would attract the atten- tion of the truck world Perhaps the answer may be found in the lofty heights these records have already reached and any Wholesale revision will be dependent ‘upon o superman athlete. of the class of Jessie Owens. After a frantic roundorobim soo- oiou of coaches, officials. mono. gem, clerks and directors to men sign positions in the many events numbing: up the program the ill-rot «went, the two-mile college relay. was started at 3:30 pan. and coiled eight minutes oixtoon and tom'- tcmlno commie later with Micki» prim filtrate Normal to the wiumor’o pooitiom. “With this; excellent @2th the Michigan lads inept piling up points and for the third common tivo time were declared the will- ncro in the college divloiou. [ll‘lnuo with their loom victory in 1034 Michigan Non-mull stands as; the only four timo winner in the lite- lays. Mun Among Men John Schommer, Tech’s indefar tigable director of athletics, is the man about whom the Relays re» value. It was his idea in concert with former track; coach Lonnie Stagg that the first of these meets was held. The present eminence of the meet is due largely to the efforts that John has expended. Your correspondent spent an hour in the University of Chicago tro- phy room last Saturday and was amazed to find the name of Sehom» mer on more trophies than that of any other of Chicago’s famous men. It is impossible to measure the contribution that Schommer has made to Tech since he entered the old Armour in 1912. He is re uered by every man that ever on tered the Institute’s doors. We have often wondered why the Honor “.1” has never conferred a letter award upon him. Officiating at a track meet, e8- pccially picking the place winners in a short dash or hurdle race. is a task that would try the patience of most men. Frequently the mun nets would come up to the finish line so that a blanket could cover all of the competitors. It is then. that the judges meet together and decide who wins the coveted med- ale. Generally two judges are as- signed to pick each place and whatever their decision is, it is taken as final. There were no protests Saturday which is will clent evidence mat the officials did a tough job in an acceptable fashion. After Twelve Home Thus for the. 75th time your coo respondent has put together a: Tech Shorts column. We always} look famed to the annual. run» using of the Relays and we always hope that the next one will be greater than the Lust. For £042 our hope is for a bigger moot anal for the institute a greater year. [til signs point in this direction. WEARCH H), 1941 Wmmmmmmm Mloolooo lgot Within o few \ ball will take tl only'at IIT, but a try. Opening be sure signs of s versoly, spring Baseball. is a n justly so, for m not only by the pating in the gt student spectato ’ baseball ranks sports at Illinois Support The student s1 100%, due to tl home games are Field, just acres: the Student Unlc freshman doesn’t In other words, v a larger attendal cago White 80} their nearby par] Full Card A complete 1: for the 1941 sea: this issue, that 1 should provide competition for the diamond. C games scheduled, We? ll]