Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08
CONGER WINS 1000
IN LAST TWO LAPS
ReiChnan of Tech Captures
Two EventS-Ten Track
Records Shattered.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

IN and the hosts team grab
/ Y bed the glory last night In
the second annual indoor
track and field games held by
Catholic University in its spacious
field house at Brcokland. The
Midshipmen walked away with the
college section, scoring 1725 points;
Eastern set the pace for the scho-
lastic with %, while the Cardinals
romped to victory in the open
handicap division in which they
bagged 81 points, just 10 more
than Maryland, its closest COM
petitor, garnered.
Catholic University's success in the
open events was due mainly to the
valiant efforts of John Lyons and Vim
cent Fraatz. These two Woodworking
athletes between them collected IL
points, Fraatz getting eight
Reichman individual star.
Individual honors for the evening,
IIONcNCT, NCI1b W al EtSlCIuIou u 46Cn
High School. He scored 10 points, q
fine feat for a scholastic.
Competition was of high order and
the capacity crowd of 500 were given
thrills plenty. So keenly were the va
rious events contested that 10 track
marks established at the meet last year
were shattered
The Ryan 1000, the high spot Of
the evening resulted in q victory for
Ray Conger, college mile record holder
and possessor of the mark for the dis
lance he ran last night. Starting with
Conger in the l 1000 were Lloyd johnson
of William and Mary, Jim Kennedy Of
Newark Athletic Club and Alfred Chris
Jensen Of Lafayette.
Breaks Track Record.
Conger let the others do the pace
setting at the start, but within two
laps Of the finish he decided to make
his own race and forged to the front.
From then on it was simply breeze for
Conger, who finished in minutes 1895
seconds, thereby breaking the Brookland
track record by rs seconds.
Finishing yards behind Conger was
the William and Mary middle distance
man, while Kennedy managed to nose
our Christensen for third position.
PhiladeIphians Fast.
West Catholic High School Of Phila-
delphia sent a fast team to the meet
that showed its feet to an Eastern High
four and a quartet from La Sale Of
Cumberland in the scholastic mile relay.
So fast did the 'Philadelphians travel
that they covered the mile only Sec
ond and fifth slower than did the
winning Lafayette College relay.
In the mile relay for varsity teams
the Catholic University quartet led all
the way in its battle with the Maryland
four. Ragusa was OF to good start
and got neat advantage over Duncan.
Farris, McGuigan and Hickey main.
tanned the edge with ease in competition
with Reichel, Shure and Brown. Then
the c. u. freshmen took two-thirds-
mile event from the Old Liners.
Navy scored again in the Abbey
Club invitation sprints, in which the
trials were at 40 yards and the final
at so. The event saw Navy finish
and McCracken following Gleason Of
the Cardinals across the line.
Navy took the open mile handicap
when Scott Gibson, started from
scratch, headed the pack across the
final line. Trailing him were two Catho-
lie University runners, Felix Farris and
Tom Ragusa. Each had a substantial
handicap.
C. U. Makes Clean Up.
Catholic University cleaned up In the
quarter mile open, with Davis winning,
Mcdonald second and McGuigan third.
Davis had a 20-yard handicap, while
Mcdonald started from the 18-yard
mark and McGuigan from the s-yard
mark,
Navy scored heavily in the open and
inferPO1IaOjofo HURDLES IN he orH
open event over the high timbers, Cox
was first and Newton third. Fraatz of
Catholic University took the place. In
the 50-yard low hurdle event for col
leges the Navy finished Newton, Cox
and Fraser. The scholastic hurdle
event at so yards over the low ones
was captured by Slye Of Eastern. with
Lender of Dewitt finishing second and
Everett, another fastener, third.
C. U. Wins Half Century.
There was keen competition In the
half-century dashes. John Lyons of
Catholic University won that for the
District of Columbia A. A. u. cham
pionship, beating Ed Quinn of Mary
In the scholastic half-century, Pal
ner Of Eastern nosed out Pohl of Tech.
Centarl got third place with Naylor
crossing. The open handicap so
was grabbed by Vincent Fraatz, run
ming from the 4-foot mark. Lyons of
c. U. with a foot handicap was Sec
ond and McCracken of Navy, with q
handicap of 2 feet, third.
Fall Hurst Navy Team.
Lafayette triumphed over Navy In
the mile college relay, its team winning ,
by about IS yards. Waters, Nays first :.
runner, was of In the lead, but fell at
the second turn and was passed by
Ward of the Eastonians
The fall cost the Navy runner about
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