This Day in Track & Field History, May 1, 2024, Jackson Scholtz wins Penn 100 yard dash (1920), Carey Pinkowski runs 8:56.2 (1975), Jos Hermans sets WRs at 20k/Hour run (1976), by Walt Murphy News and Results Services

This Day in Track & Field–May 1

1920—A combined Oxford/Cambridge team set a World Record of 7:50.4 in the 2-mile Relay at the Penn Relays with a lineup of Wilfrid Tatham, Henry Stallard, William Milligan, and Bevil Rudd, who would win Olympic gold in the 400-meter in Antwerp.  udd, a native of South Africa, also won a bronze medal in the 800-meter. Earl Eby was winning the silver medal in the 800 and anchored Penn to wins in the Mile Relay (3:22.4) and Sprint Medley (3:29.0).

Penn State won the first two of its 32 Relay titles, finishing 1^st in the 4-mile Relay (18:16.8) and Distance Medley (10:37.2).

PennPenn’srman Landers scored a unique double, winning the Pole Vault(12-6[3.81[) and the Triple Jump

(46-7  ½[14.2]).

Miss Missouri ‘skson Scholz won his second title in the 100-yard dash (10.2/also won in 1918).  Later, Cholz won Olympic gold in the 4×100 in Antwerp and ihe 200 at the 1924 Olympics in Paris.

Another Olympic Champion-to-be (110mh) in Antwerp was DartDartmouth’sl Thomson, who won the 1^st of his 3 Penn titles in the 120-yard hurdles (15.2).

This was the only year that the Relays were held in May!

Results

Jackson Scholz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Scholz

Earl Thomson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Thomson

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/05/02/112658333.html?pageNumber=19

1954—Stan Lampert threw 59-5  7/8 (18.13) in Asbury Park, NJ, to break Parry O’BrO’Brien’srican Record in the Shot Put (59-2 3/8 [18.04]).  ’BrO’Brienained the record a week later when he broke the 60-foot barrier with a toss of 60-5  ¼ (18.42) in Los Angeles.  ampLampert’sk was never ratified as a World Record.

Lampert was an All-American at NYU, finishing 2^nd and 3^rd at the 1949 and 1950 NCAA Championships.

http://www.gonyuathletics.com/hof.aspx?hof=193&path=&kiosk=

1975–Carey Pinkowski, a senior at Hammond H.S. in Indiana, ran 8:56.2 for 2 miles on a cold and blustery day.  y the end of the spring, teammates Rudy Chapa, a junior, and fellow senior Tim Keough had run 8:51.0 and 8:52.8, respectively, giving the school an unprecedented trio of sub-9 2-milers. The coach behind the team was Dan Candiano, a 4:09 miler at DePaul.

            Pinkowski, an All-American at Villanova, has been the Director of the Chicago Marathon since 1990.

            Chapa, who…