VINE MIxchIAN DAIL.Y
Jesse Owens' Greatest Day
By The Associated Press
One of the greatest legends in
< sports history was created in Ann
Arbor 25 years ago today.
On May 25, 1935; at the Univer-
sity of Michigan's Ferry Field, a
slender young Negro named Jesse
Owens rocked the sports world
when he flashed to three new
world's records and tied a fourth.
Owens, then just a 21-year-old
Ohio State sophomore competing
s in his first Big Ten Track Meet,
cracked world marks in the 220-
yard dash and low hurdles and'
the broad jump, while tying the
world record in the 100-yard dash.
Disbelief
As 10,000 fans watched in stun-
ned disbelief;, the smooth-running
cinder whiz ignited his amazing,
drama-packed 45-minute perform-
ance by tying Frank Wykoff's
world record; of 9.4 seconds in the.
century.
Ten .minutes later, Owens took
his first-and only broad jump of
the day, catapulting 26' 8%" to
break the world mark by more
than half a foot.
His third effort was a 20.3
clocking in the, 220-yard dash-
three-tenths of a second under.
the previous record.
The roar of the crowd grew in
intensity as each new record was
announced. Tension and excite-
ment reached electrifying pro-
portions as Owens lined up for
his fourth event of the day, the
220-yard low hurdles.
The "ebony antelope" respond-
ed with his third world record of
the afternoon as he shaved twos
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In', TourneyD/%
Gary Lewis, Michigan's only
representative to the National
Junior Weightlifting Champion-
ship in Schenectady, New York,
last Saturday, finished third in
the 132 pound class.
Lewis lifted a total weight of
635 pounds to place third in the
national meet. He pressed 205,
snatched 185 and lifted 245 in the,
clean and jerk.
.lirk Krell of Cleveland, Ohio,
aibo competing in the 132 pound
division, set a record for the Jun-
ior Championships with a lift of
269% pounds in the clean and
jerk.
Lewis is hoping to go to the
Senior National Championships
which will be June 12 and 12 in
Cleveland. This meet will also
feature the judging for the Mr.
America Contest.
Lewis' performance in Schen-
ectady is a tribute to the weight-j
lifting. program instituted by the
Michigan I-M department. The
men down there have hopes that
more Michigan "lifters" will be
able to represent Michigan with
equally fine efforts in the future.
fifth of a second from the pre-
existing mark with a time of 22.6.
Owens' broad jump-mark, which
has withstood the assaults of
thousands during the past quar-
ter century, is the only one of
those famous marks still standing.
Phil Diamond, now a retired
Ann Arbor businessman who
served as head timer at the Big
Ten meet on that historic day,
said there was no doubt about any
of Owen's records.
'Same Times'
"All three watches caught Ow-
ens in the exact same times for
the 100- and 220-yard dashes,"
Diamond said. "In fact, in the
100-yard event all three were just
a fraction over 9.3 seconds."
Diamond explained that Michi-
gan traditionally has used a con-
servative timing method, based on
when the lower portion of a run-
ner's body crosses the finish line,
instead of the chest which usually
leans forward.
"You can talk all you want
about 9.3 hundred's today," Dia-
mond said. "No one has ever run
100 yards faster than Owens did
that day."
Different Times
He added that three different
times were recorded in the hur-
dles, but that Owens' mark had to
go into the record book as the
slowest of the three to qualify as
a new record.
Owens, now at 46 a Chicago
disc jockey and .sports specialist
for the Illinois Youth Commis-
sion, said an ailing back almost
kept him out of the :meet and
that only at the last minute did
he decide to enter.
Larry Snyder, who stillisOhio
State's track coach, observed:
"There never was or has been
anything like that performance.
Owens, combining an ability to
relax with the qualities of a great
sprinter, astounded the world."
LECORD HOLDER-Jesse Owens appears as he must have looked 25 years ago today when he broke
liree world records and tied a fourth here at Ferry Field in a Big Ten Track Meet. His broad jump
ecord of 26'8:/" still stands as a world mark, while his track records have since been tied or broken.
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