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...come to see was Boss MacPhail's first big innovation-the first major-league baseball game played under floodlights in New York City.* With his customary extravagance, Larry MacPhail had made the baseball game an incidental of the evening's entertainment. He had invited famed Olympic Sprinter Jesse Owens to do his stuff before the game, had hired two fife & drum corps and a couple of brass bands. At 9:45 when the grandstand customers who had paid $1.10 (and the 3,000 bleacherites who had paid 55?) felt that they had just about received their money...
...track experts. Southern California's coach. Dean Bartlett Cromwell, an old track & fielder himself, has trained more world-record holders and Olympic winners than anyone else in the U. S. In 1912 he was famed for Hurdler Fred Kelly. After the War it was Charlie Paddock, fastest sprinter of his time; and more recently it was Frank Wykoff. Since 1928 he has been renowned for his record-breaking pole vaulters, most sensational of whom were the "Trojan Twins," Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows, who wound up their college careers last year by breaking the world record with identical vaults...
Coach Cromwell's 1938 crop of runners & jumpers who came East last week have been undefeated this season. Outstanding sprinter is Adrian Talley, who lived up to expectations by winning the 100-yd. dash last week. Outstanding pole vaulters, curiously enough, are another pair of "Trojan Twins," Loring Day and Kenneth Dills. Both soar 14 ft., 3 in. with ease, and Day's recent vault of 14 ft., 7 in. is the top pole-vaulting performance of the year. Although Day & Dills kept in trim during the transcontinental trip by chinning on a bar stretched across the Pullman...
Early in the season as it is, both teams appear to be in top shape. Harvard's only serious mishap so far has been sprinter Torbert MacDonald who was expected to break up the Blue sprint formation. There are reports, also, that Nicky Kerr of Yale pulled a muscle in the hundred at the Penn relays, but Millet and Burlingame will still display the teeth for the Bulldog...
Charley Smith is number one sprinter on a team weak in the sprints. Tom Lacey has been working up in the Javelin, hurling the spear 175 feet against Exeter, where he did even better as a student last year...