At Evanston

Michigan and Illinois have been winning the Western Conference track & field championships since 1917. There seemed no reason to believe that Michigan would not win again at Evanston last week. Illinois' ace hurdler, Lee Sentman, was likely to be beaten by Jack Keller of Ohio State; Michigan had Eddie Tolan, who holds the official world's record for the 100-yard dash, and a crack one-mile relay team. In the first events, run off on a raw dark afternoon. Michigan piled up what looked like a safe lead till Sentman, equaling the world's record (14.4 sec.), beat Keller in the 120-yd. high hurdles.

At a big track meet, the spectators are sometimes likely to overlook the field events because it is easier to spot the athletes who are running races than the ones who are throwing the discus, javelin, hammer. Late in the afternoon, Michigan and Illinois were still ahead, nearly tied, with four events still undecided. Wisconsin, almost overlooked, had won the high jump and the two-mile run (establishing a new Conference record), placed second in the mile, the 440, and the shot-put. Kabat's discus throw, 150 ft. 10 1/2 in., nowhere near the record but five feet better than Purma of Illinois could do, decided the championship--for Wisconsin. Michigan's relay team (Eknovich, De Baker, Glading, Russell) broke the Conference record in the mile relay, but Illinois won the hammer throw, finished second to Wisconsin, 1 1/2 points ahead of Michigan.

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