Evening star., 1932-02-27
TRACK CHAMPS VIE
IN BIG CASEY MEET
Ten Title Holders in Field
Tonight-Venzke Attacks
1,500-Meter Mark.
By the Associated Press.

i By the Associated Press.
n Y EW YORK, February 27.-The
! M track experts. who have been
| dealing in superlatives al
through the indoor season
brought out their favorite big words
again today and held them in readiness
for the last big open meet of the Win
| ter campaign, the thirteenth annual
meet of the New York Chapter, knights
of Columbus, at Madison Square Gar
den tonight.
Eighteen events are on the program
which winds up the season for the
club stars, leaving the way clear to
the grand finale in the intercollegiates
next Saturday. The entry list includes
nearly all the outstanding stars of the
Winter, among them 10 men who were
crowned as national indoor champions
Monday.
LAR above the other races comes the
J. Columbian" 1,500-meter race, the
Olympic years successor to the
! famous Columbian mile. The distance
was changed for the benefit of Gene
Venzke, sensation Of the season at the
mile. He IS generally expected to step
out and beat the indoor record of
3:55 As held by Lloyd Hahn and pos
Sibly the American outdoor mark of
1855 made by Pay Conger.
The club relay promises to be hum
dinger, with Washington well repre-
sented by the Three Track Club,
recently organized. Its team is COM
posed Of former college runners, Smith
of North Carolina, Gibson of Army,
Thomas OF Maryland and McChesney
OF Duke, and in workouts this COM
bination has beaten the best time regis
tered In the G. U. meet club event
The Meadowbrook Club of Philadelphia
and Stonewall Democratic Club of
Baltimore will furnish the opposition.
EXCEPTIONALLY fast fields are
~ entered in the 50-yard open low
hurdles, with a world record holder
at 10 yards, E. Finkelstein of Wash
ington and Lee, favorite, the 50-yard
intercollegiate invitation for the Abbey
Club Trophy, the 440 and $50 opens
and the 2-mile intercollegiate. There
are half dozen events, in fact, of
major importance and collectively they
put the c. U. meet among the fore
most in the East. For intercollegiate
competition only the national cham
pionShipS will surpass it.
From 7:30 o'clock until nearly mid
night there will be something doing
and to ensure a snappy conduct of the
meet Griffith has chosen his officials
painStakingly. One buck will admit
you in and four bits added will give
you private seat.
Conger is one Of the fine field listed
to oppose Venzke. Others are Leo Ler-
mond, another New York A. C. star and
one of the Pottstown streak's leading
rivals all season; Frank Crowley of
Manhattan College; Frank Nordell of
New York University, and Earl Catalan
OF the Boston A. A, when VenZke ran
his famous 4:1O mile couple weeks
ago he was credited with doing the 1,500
meters in 3:54.
THE sprint series brings together the
L runners who took TIE first four
places at the nationals, Emmett
TOPPING of New Orleans, Al Kelly of
Georgetown, Eddie Tolan of Michigan
and Ira Singer of New York. The q
mile run brings together two national
champions, Joe McCloskey of Fordham,
and George Lermond of the New York
A. c., who won the 2-mile steeplechase
and the 3-mile run respectively.
George Spitz, high-jump champion
and record holder, makes his last ap-
pearance of the indoor season against
the veteran, Harold Osborn, and Howard
Spencer, Geneva College star.
Other national champions on the list
are Dale Let's of Chicago in the half
mile, Fred Sturdy of Los Angeles in the
pole vault. Percy Beard, former Alabama
Poly ace, in the hurdles, Mike Pecora of
New York, who won the mile walk In
record time, and Horace Whitney, Col
gates 30Q-yard champion.