SPORTS
10 Records Broken in "5 de Mayo" Meet
the greatest field of Mexican track stars ever assembled showed their wares when the Confederación Deportiva** of Mexico City met Southern California at the Tenth Annual Track Meet and Fiesta held at the Los Angeles Coliseum on Sunday May 4, under the sponsorship of the Mexican Athletic Association of Southern California.
Breaking 10 Association records and 3 Mexican National records. Southern California won over Mexico for the first time by copping first in 10 of the I 7 events.
The Cazares brothers, Art and Gabe, of Fresno State set a new Mexican record by tying in the 1500 Meters at 4:00 Minutes flat. Bobby Madrid also set a new Mexican record in the 5,000 Meters at .15m. 34.2s. after winning the 800 Meters. The third Mexican National Record was set by William Morales of San Diego State who heaved the javalin 193 feet 4% inches.
Phil Diez of U.C.L.A, was high point man of the meet with three firsts in the 1 00 Meters, 1 10 Meters Hurdles, and 200 Meters Hurdles, and a third in the high jump; and Elias Castañeda of S.C.A.A. was a close second. He won the shot and discus and placed third in the 1 10 Meters hurdles and fourth in the Javalin.
Ventura Flores, the little Indian from Tepozotlan chalked up the only victory for Mexico in the distance events by winning the 10,000 Meter Run in the excellent time of 33 minutes 30.5 seconds. He and his running mate also from Mexico, Manuel Martinez, lapped the whole field at least once. This race is an open race, and everyone can compete, whether he is a Mexican or not. Special trophies are given to the first three non-Mexicans to finish. James Wells, Edwin Errett, and Jack Powell won the trophies.
Coronel Ignacio Beteta, Chief of the Physical Education Department for the Republic of Mexico, was present at the meet. He was very well pleased at the marks and stated that Art and Gabe Cazares, Bobby Madrid, Phil Diez, Elias Castañeda, and William Morales would be given a chance to represent Mexico in the Pan-American Olimpic Games to be held at Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1942.
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RESULTS OF THE MEEJ 10,000 Meters Run—33i3<K5 1st—Ventura Flores, Mexico, D. F. 2nd—Manuel Martinez, Mexico,
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3rd—Miguel Hidalgo, independien-tCe
4th—Frank Sanchez, independiente.
5th—James Wells, independiente. 1500 Meters Run—4.00.
1st—Art Cazares, Fresno State. 2nd^-Gabe Cazares, Fresno State. 3rd—Francisco Collazo, Mexico,
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4th—Alfredo Cortez, Mexico, D. F. 400 Meters Run—50.2.
1 st—Gilberto Castruita, Mexico, D. F.
2nd—Rodolfo Curiel, Los Angeles,
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3rd—Manuel Ceja, Chapman College.
4th—Hcriberto Ortiz, Mexico, D. F. 100 Meters Run—10.9.
1st—Phil Diez, U.C.L.A.
2nd—Lazaro Hernandez, Mexico,
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3rd—Antonio Z^apata Quijas, Mexico, D. F.
shot Put—42’ iy4M
1st—Elias J. Castañeda, S.C.A.A. 2nd—Raul Urquijo, Mexico; D. F. 3rd—Domitilo Alquicira, Mexico,
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Pole Vault— 11’ 9”.
1st—Jesus Centeno, independiente. 2nd—Florentino Gbmez, Mexico, D. F.
3rd—Manuel Benavides, Garfield H. S.
4th—Dean Henninger, independiente.
110 Meters Hurdles—15.4.
1st—Phil Diez, U.C.L.A.
2nd—Roberto Sanchez Ramirez, Mexico, D. F.
3rd—Elias J. Castañeda, S.C.A.A. 800 Meters Run—1:58.
1st—Bob Madrid, Fresno State. 2nd—Gabe Cazares. Fresno State. 3rd—Luis Cortez, Mexico, D. F. 200 Meters Run—21.9.
I st—Lazaro Hernandez, Mexico, D. F.
2nd—Rodolfo Curiel, Los Angeles c. c.
3rd—Antonio Zapata Quijas, Mexico, D. F.
200 Meters Hurdles—24.1.
1st—Phil Diez. U.C.L.A.
2nd—Mario Nuncio Gaona, Mexico, D. F.
3rd—Ray Atzet, independiente. High Jump—5’ 9%”
PAISANOS DOMINATE
In the five divisional high school meets, that lead to the southern California finals, an unprecedented thing happened when all of the mile races were won by Americans of Mexican descent! The winners of their respective districts were: Diaz of Capistrano in 4:42, Flores of San Bernardino, brother of Nick, last year’s National Junior college champion in the 2 mile, “four lapped” in 4:37.7, Aguilera of Compton in 4:37.2, Flores of Santa Paula in 4:39.8, and Salmon of San Diego who chalked up the best time in 4:36.3.
In other events, Louis Barrera, ex-sprinter proved that he also had endurance, when he won the 440 in 50.1. Centeno of El Monte Jack-Knifed over 12* y^*' in the vault while Hernandez of Victorville ran away with the 880 crown in 2:8.3 to complete the list of victories.
DOUBLE TITLEHOLDER
Arthur Bermudez, Compton Junior High College swimmer tied for high point man with a team-mate this month when their school won the Southern California Junior College Swim crown. Bermudez won the 100 yd. freestyle in the near record time of 56.3 and swam away with the 50 yd. freestyle when he paddled the chlorinated H 2 0 in 23.3. He also anchored the relay team to go home with 1 5 points.
1st—Salvador Leyva G., Mexico, 2nd—Dean Henninger, independiente.
3rd—Phil Diez, U.C.L.A, Javalin—193’ 4* * * * * * * * * * * 1/i”
1st—William Morales, San Diego State.
2nd—Emilio	Mendoza, Mexico,
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3rd—Cesar Guerrero, Mexico, D.F. 4th—Elias Castañeda, S.C.A.A.
Discus—121’ 8i/2”.
1st—Elias J. Castañeda, S.C.A.A.
2nd—Domitilo Alquicira, Mexico, D. F.
3rd—Frank Lopez, independiente. 4th—Raul Urquijo, Mexico, D. F.
5 th—Robert Zumaran, independiente.
5000 Meters Run—15:34.2.
1st—Bob Madrid, Fresno State.
2nd—Francisco Collazo, Mexico, D. F.
3rd—Ventura Flores, Mexico, D. F. Broad Jump—22* 4”
1 st—Fausto Ponce Sotelo, Mexico, D. F.
2nd—Ray Atzet, independiente.
3rd—Salvador Leyva G., Mexico, D. F.
4th—Marcus Castañedo, Garfield High School.
5th--Frank Lopez, independiente.
Relay—4 x 400 Mexico. D. F.