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' ¦¦ '*df"J > The Sport-Light RACE LADS DO THEIR STUFF! >• . —PHOTOS COURTESY MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL AND MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE (By Jimmy Lee)

Well, my friends, those of you who failed to attend the National Collegiate track meet held out at the University of Minnesota last Friday certainly

missed a rare treat. This, the seven- teenth meet, marked the first time the

event has ever been in Minnesota. The

meet was well attended both days (Fri- day and Saturday). Twenty colored athletes took part in the various events. Of the twenty, six

came out as champions of their event. The champions were as follows: of Ohio State, 880 yard run, Mozelle Ellerbee of Tus- time, 1:51.3; mmj: kegee, 100 yard dash—time, 9.7; Wil- liam Lacefield of U. C. L. A., broad jump—distance 25.114; Dave Albritton of Ohio State and Gil Cruter of Colo- rado tied for —height, 6.8%; !* of Oregon, 220 yard dash —time, 21.3.

Other colored stars who took part were as follows: W. W. Strode, U. C. L. A., the man picked by many as the most perfect built athlete of the meet. William Watson, Michigan, captain elect of the Wolverine

School and the man who almost single-handed won the Big Ten cham- pionship. Lilburn Williams and Lloyd Thompson of Xavier (New Or- leans). The boys are products of the great Ralph Metcalf, although Here’s Tuskegee’s Mozel Ellerbe winning the their coach was unable to make the trip. Ed. Burke, Marquette. This 100-yard dash in :09.7. So. California’s Adrian in the Burke fellow really made a great showing high jump. Wesley Talley, extreme right, finished second. Ben Allen, Michigan, also good at high jumping. Chas. Walker, Ohio State, Johnson, Columbia, was a close third. team mate of the great Albritton. Jas. Smith, Indiana; Jas. Herbert, N. Y. U.; Fred Allenice and J. Marion, Prairie View; Ben Johnson, and in the hard luck fellow of captain of Columbia team, our opinion HP the meet. When Johnson came to the meet he was the champion of i *¦> the 100 yard dash. Running in the same heat with Ellerbee on Friday V' (qualifying day), he finished ahead of the latter, but Saturday it was : ? : The fleet flashed the to a different story. Tuskegee past champion * cross the tape ahead of him. Now then, to make matters worse, this A ¦ti.4: f same Johnson, a strong favorite to win the 220 yard dash, up and 1 \ turns his ankle before he had run 100 him out of the I yards, forcing I j race. Too bad, we must admit; however, Johnson, in my opinion, is still plenty fast. A 1 Scisco, Tuskegee, was handicapped by an injury during the meet. - *f. For All-American track nominations allow us to make our choice,

and we refer to none other than Dave Albritton and Gil Cruter. These two sterling athletes really deserve special mention for their effort in the high jump. It seemed as though their event would have to be called because of darkness. Why? Because the boys had jumped and jumped for more than an hour. After their opponents had been elimi- nated, after they had broken the meet record, the bar was raised to 6.9%, each had three trials but neither could make the jump. Had the boys made the jump they would have broken the world’s record. Hence, these two boys who had come to the meet co-champions, departed the

same.

Coach Bill O’Shield, former Minnesota athlete, returned to his Alma Mater victorious. Yep, Bill’s boy, Ellerbee, turned out sensa- tionally. Bill was all smiles after the meet. O’Shield will enter his two boys in the A. A. U. meet to be held in Buffalo July 2nd and 3rd.

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legiate record in the climax of Saturday’s N.C.A.A. track meet. Albritton, attempts at a new world record of 6 feet, 10 '/2 inches.

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