1. Thorson, McFarland, Smith,
H., Bailey, Nash, Gaskins, Washburn, Alexander, beach, Lemon,
Anderson, Mershon, Craig, Blackledge.
2. Johnson, Davis, Hunt, Almgreen, brandy, Rexford, Gallagher,
Kraft, Delancey, Lindsay, Tunison, Smith, M., Joseph, Mannheimer,
Martin, Dalton, Adams.
Under the guidance of Coach Ed Adams, the
Corvallis High track team opened
their season with a three-way meet with the Oregon State Rooks
and Salem High School.
The Rooks easily won the meet with 103 points to 31 for Salem and
17 for Corvallis.
Blackledge, sophomore field star, won first place in the shot put
and second in the discus while
several other Spartan cinder men placed in other events.
In the Willamette track and field meet Corvallis tied with
Roseburg and University
High for sixth place. Althought they did not win any first
places, the Spartans took
enough second and third places to keep up with the rest.
Albany won by a 10.5 point margin in a dual meet held there.
Blackledge won
individual honors with 11 points by placing first twice and third
once. Josephe, Hunt,
Bandy, and the relay team also won first places in their events.
In the district track meet on Bell Field, Albany nosed out
Corvallis for top honors
with 51 points against 44 for Corvallis. Dallas was next in line
with only 15 points.
The district meets fell before the determined cinder artists of
Corvallis. blackledge
threw the shot 45 feet and 9.5 inches and the discus 121 feet 8.5
inches to break two records
and gain the individual honors for the day. La Fond also bettered
the record of the
meet by four seconds in the 220 yard dash. Lemon and Joseph won
first and second
in the broad jump while Hunt placed second in the high jump and
Gaskins second in the
440.
All track and field men who placed first or second in the
district meet were
qualified to enter the all-state track and field meet on Hayward
Field, Eugene.
-Peter Batcheller