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Superlatives
describing the outstanding success
of the Sixteenth Annual illinois Tech
Relay games last Saturday. ~What
with the competition of other sim»
ilar meets having been removed even
to that old bugabon, the Butler Re—
lays, the Tech Games hit a high
that may never again be reached.
Spectator interest was at fever pitch
even during" the afternoon trials and
did not cease until the final pole vault
at about midnight.

    
  
 

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A long day indeed it was for the
ofiicinls and with the necessity of
certifying the record breaking per-
formances the details required much
effort. At about 12:15 rum. Sunday
we pinned the oiiicial scorer’s sig—
nature on the A.A.U. applications
for the American records established
or tied by Herb Melienley, Bill Por—
ter and Dick Houdcn. "l‘was a plea» —
nrc indeed to have done our small
part in this matter.

Twentwsix teams hit the scoring
column in the college division while
fourteen did likewise in the univer—
sity section. This is as many teams
as took part in many of the previ-

at any time during the evening that
Illinois and Michigan Normal would
top their respective divisions al-
though at one point in the scoring it
appeared that Baldwin—Wallace, the
Small Methodist college of less than
1000 students located at Berna, Ohio,
might, with victories in the final
two college events, out~point the
.mighty aggregation from Ypsilanti,
Michigan.

in. observing the rimming style
of iiiinois’ lien-h McKcnley we were
L host reminded: of another whisky
”marvel, Jesse Owens, who rates as
7 the greatest of any track performoi'
in «om-"hook. McKenley‘s sweepiri ,-
cilortleiss stride was no steady at the
end 5i)? yards of the 440 as at the
Start. His counterpart in the iron—
man mile is ill of Us famous Jimmy
Lighthotly, who won three champion»
shine in the 1904 Olympic Games at
St. Louis. it would not he impossihie
for McKenley to winthe 2M} and
4% meter titles at this London 1948
Olympics. Only. instead of represent;
ing lilinois. line will be running under
the flag of the British Empire, since
he is n .iamaiican.

‘A few observations . . . We-ltip
, our literary hat to Wilfred Smith,
Chicago Tribune’s track expert, for
his exdellent account of the Relays
in the Sunday final editions of the
Tribune . . . Also kudos to the peo-
ple who put together the Press
Book and designed the beautiful red—
greynhlack program . . . ’Twas good
to see one 111‘ tracliman wearing an
ARMOUR TECH sweatsuit . . . John
Schomrner hal time to argue the
Norris LaGuardia Act with Judge
Hugo Friend at the officials’ dinner
in Reynolds Hall . . . Next thing to
look for at the Relays is for team
representation from the east and
west coasts, could be you know . . .
That 03’ debil ”probation” sure put
athe skids under Roy McCauiey’s IIT
tracksters as it did to John Ahern’s
swimmers . . . And to think that
back in 1930 a small band of stal-
warts, Captained by Don Paul, took
away the Relays title for NT earn-
ing for the team some very neat
littie gold track shoes Two
wonderful events put on by the ln~
stitute in two days—Friday the
Interfraternity Formal, and then
the Relays . . . For some first class
help our thanks to Jim Olds‘nue, Hen-
ry Py‘pe and Paul Hermann . . . For
those who “Vii? still be reading, this
is the 78th t is your correspondent
has put» this column together and
his 16th Beings . . . Next year 79
mid l'?, hope to see you then . . .
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Michigan Normal ............. 58% Detroit ...................... 5
Baldwin-Wallace .............. 44% Central Michigan . . .\ .......... 1i.
Wheaten ..................... 261/3 lindiana Teachers .............. 4
Ohio Wesleyan ............... 23 South Dakota ................. 4
Loyola ....................... l8 Carleton ..................... 3
Western Michigan ............. iii Milwaukee Teachers ........... 3
DeKalh ...................... 12 North Central ................. 21/;
9 Grinneli ........ . ........ . 2
.. 9 Che ................... . l
.. i5 Cronell . 1
.. ti Mochlestcr ...... . l.
Augustana ........ .. 5 Mammh . 11
Case ......................... 5 Iowa State Teachers .......... 1,4;
UNHVERSETY DlVlSION
lllinois ...................... 751/7 Missouri ..................... iii
Michigan ................... 3811/” Michigan State ................ ?%
Wisconsin .................. 2935/23 Marquette ................... ii
Notre Dame ............... HEW/7 Kansas State ....... . ......... i“:
Indiana. ................... . .24
Purdue ........ . ........ . . . . .19
Northwestern . . . . . .181/7

  

 

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In tight @onc theistic @cooion‘s
The University Brood Jump was held during the afternoon,

with George Kailas of Wisconsin tossing the shot 23’5” to Win.
While the Broad Jump was going on, the lndiana Medley

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surnassed all expectations as he
shipped to new meet records in both
the high and low hurdles, and tied
the American indoor low hurdle mark
of :07.8 set by Bob Wright of Ohio
State in 1942. Bill Porter, North—
westcrn’s phenomenal hurdler, tied
the American indoor mark in the
highs twice, repeating his afternoon
time of :08.5 in winning the evening
finals. ’

The third recordequalling event
came unexpectedly in the university
seventy yard dash, when Dick How
den of Wisconsin topped a great
field of sprinters in the second track
event of the evening: in 7 seconds

flat. This time, in addition to shat- .

tearing the Tech Relays record, tied
the American indoor mark which

had not been equalled since 1933

when Ralph Mctcalfe of Marquette

tied Loren Murchison’s original rec-

ord set in 1926.

A brief recapitulation of records
affected includes:

AMERKCAN ENDOOR RECORDva
Broken: 440 Yard Ron. Tied: ’70
Yard Big-h Hurdles, '70 Yard Low
Hurdles, 70 Yard High Hurdles.

Fifihillimilfih‘. RECQRDS—«Broken:
Distance Medley Relay, Shot Put,
70 Yard Dash, 440 Yard Run, Mile
Relay. Tied: 70 Yard High Huh
dies, 70 Yard Low Hurdles.

COLLEGE R E l.. A Y RECORDS-m
Broken: Two Mile Relay, Broad
Jump, Distance Medley Relay, 70
Yard High Hurdles, 70 Yard Low
Hurdles, Mile Run. Tied: 70 Yard
Dash.

UNl‘VERSlil‘Y RELAYS RECORDS
—Broken: Distance Medley Relay,
Shot Put, '70 Yard Dash, 70 Yard
High Hurdles, 440 Yard whum, Mile
Relay. Tied: 70 Yard Low Hurdles.

 

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By Ari. Eisilon
J ohn Makielski has probably

splashed more water than any other
man at Illinois Tech. He gets this
distinction as the top diver on the
Techawk

swimming team, having
won 9 first places
in 11 meets this
season. He first
began (livingwhen
he was swimming
for his high school
in South. Bend,
lndiana, won the
state. diving
championship in
his senior year.
When he came to
UT in 1944, he swam in the relay
events, later switched to diving.

 

Makielski does not let swimming
interfere with his social and aca—
demic life. He was social. chairman
of his junior class, and secretary
treasurer 0," Honor 1, and is at pres»
ent pledgemaster at Delta Tau Delta
fraternity. A popular-student, who
has the confidence of the student
body, he was elected vice, president of
lTSA, voted into Pi Tau Sienna, and
has been president. of Tau Beta Pi.
Last semester he was president of
lTSA.

John got his degree in Ml?) last
January, and is now working for his
bachelors degree in industrial engi—
neering, which he will
Juno.

receive in
The success of this year’s swim-
ming: is (ion. John thinks. to a good
Well balanced foam. . .He admits that
the pi‘oimtion policy played havoc
with the team, but chin s that that
is part, of the game. (lo . Ahcrn
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All those who witnessed the Tech Relays last Saturday got
a full Program of broken and tied records. Herb McKenley of
lllinois showed everyone why he is the greatest quarter—mile}:
in the world; he shot ahead like a rocket at the gun and glided

in to finish 25 yards ahead of the
field. The night before at the Central
AAU meet, he established a new
worldys record in the 300 yard sprint
in a pair of borrowed track shoes;
someone had stolen his own shoes
just before the AAU meet.

The Chicago g‘rihnne’s shorts
writer, Wil Smith, said that the
Tech relays. had the greatest
gathering of track talent ever
seen in one day.

Nels Anderson did a grand job
in arranging: the events so that the
finals were run off very close to
schedule. With a record of 90% en—
tries, officials estimated that the
meet would be up to two hours oi’i~
schedule. But despite the fact that
there were, 10 heats in the college
70 yard dash, other similar unusual‘
ly large events, the finals were fi~
iiished within 20 or 30
the scheduicd finish.

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a portion of those who wanted
to watch the meet. Over a
thousand others had to be turned
away because of the lock of
room. The downtown press was
well represented at the meet
with representatives from all
the daily papers and press serv-
ices.

The odd fractions of a point that
appear in the point table are due to
a four way tie for fourth place in
the high jump (3/4 of a point per
man) and a seven way tie for fifth
in the pole vault (1/7 of a point.
per man). This grave Scorer Ari. Jens
a hit of, high mathematics to perform.

'i‘he Tech track team! has no
piece to practice any more. They
had been using: the if 05 (‘ lField‘
house each evening out t‘hicago
has refused to let them practice
there any more. so the boys are
iefi out in the cohi waiting for
the weather 2o warm on so om»

door practice mm iicgin.

The lllinois 'chh NR??? Cnii lost

  

After a brief intermission, Rich-
ard Honden of Wisconsin set at“ new
meet record and tie the American
Indoor record with a time of 07:93:;
the 70 yard dash. The two mile relay
was Won by Michigan in 7248.1.

Bill Porter of Northwestern then
streaked over the '70 yard High
Hurdles in 08.5 to set a new meet
record and tie the American Record.
Wisconsin then came through to win
the sprint medley relay.

McKeniey Sets Record

in the 440 yard dash,yHerb Me—
Kenley of lllino‘lo clipped a tenth; of,
a second of? of his former American V
record to win in. 317.9. The 70 yard
low Hurdles were won by George
Walker of Illinois. John TWomey
added five more points to Illinois’
total by winning the one mile run.

In the 880, Don Gehrihann, of Wis—
consin came in first. Illinois then set
a new meet record of 23:18.8 in the
One Mile Relay.

Norm Wesser of Illinois the}:
tossed the shot 524%" to set a new
meet record. Dwight Eddleman and
Harry Andersen, both of Illinois,
tied for first in the high jump with
6’4". The last event of the evening,

the Pole Vault, was won by Edwin

Sewell.

College Division

During the afternoon the College
Broad Jump was won by Lorenzo
Wright of Wayne with a jump of
238%". The College MEclley Relay»
was won by Ohio Wesleyan. These
two events were run for the first
time in this meet.

The College Two Mile Relay was
won by Wheaten to set a new meet
record of 8:043. The College 70 Yard
Dash was won in the evening by
Barion Campbell of Michigan Normal
to tie the meet record of 207.1. The
One Mile Relay was won by Loyola.

Diilard Sets Record

‘The 70 Yard High Hurdles was
won by Harrison Dillard of Baldwim
Wallace in :08.6' to set a new meet
record. The 440 was won by Gene
Blackburn of Ohio Wesleyan. Horri—
son Dillard then won the 70 Yard
Low Hurdles in :07.8 to set a new
meet record and tied the American
record.

In the One Mile Run, Quentin
Brelsford of Ohio Wesleyan set a
new meet record of 4:213. Don Smith
of Michigan Normal then came
through to take the 880 Yard. Michiv
gran Normal added more points to
its total in taking: the Sprint Medley.

The Shot was tossed 432%" by
Tom Loui'ek of Augustans. Jack
Heintzman of Bradley jumped 6'4”
to win the High Jump. The Pole
Vault was won by Bernard Archer
with a height of 18'.

 
   
  
 

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