Front Row - Welch, Hutchinson,
Tomlinson, Keasey, Swain, Fulkerson, Michalson.
Back Row - Gibson, Chritton, Dixon, Wagner, Smith, Holl, Coach
Parker.
With only four lettermen back to build the team around, the
Corvallis
track team proved to be one of the strongest among teams all over
the
state. Several small meets at the start of the season helped to
line up and
develop the material, giving the men much more early experience
than in pre-
vious years.
Two school meets, a novice and an interclass, were held at the
first of
the season to find out who the best men were. The first regular
meet,
with Albany, was easily won by a score of 76-48. A triangular
meet be-
tween Albany, Eugene and Corvallis, was won by half a point,
Corvallis re-
ceiving 49.5 points, and Eugene 49.
The next was the Oregon Relays in which Corvallis carried off two
first place cups, Raymond Keasey taking the Pole Vault and Searl
Swain
the High Jump. A week later the Willamette Valley meet was also
held at
Eugene. In this the boys took a second with 44 points, Eugene
having 54.
Corvallis earned 11.5 points to take 4th place in the Oregon
State
Track meet. Wagner took a second in the discus and tied for third
in the
shot. Keasey, who has been doing outstanding work in the pole
vault got
a tie for first in this event.
On May 17 the Corvallis team will compete in the Northwest meet
at
Forest Grove. This is the last meet and Corvallis boys expect to
take
it like they did last year.