Evening star., 1932-02-28


final in which Lyons of c. U. finished
second and Quinn of Maryland third.
With Campbell, Farris, Mcdonald
and Hickey carrying the baton. Cath
olic University vanquished Lafayette
in one section of the 2-mile relay. In
the other Virginia beat the Navy by 40
yards The Cavaliers were Lauck. H.
Cary, A. Dudley and o. Weaver. Vir-
ginia made the best time in 8 minutes
35 seconds.
The 660-yard District A. A. U. cham
pionShip, contested for the first time,
went tc Bob Connor Of c. u with an
other Cardinal, Pete Dranginis, second
Scott Gibson of the Navy. who won
the mile last year, came back to take
first honors by a commanding margin
in the intercollegiate 2-mile event,
trailed by w. Griffith, also MILDLY. G.
Baker of Villanova was third Gibson's
time of 10 minutes 1885 seconds clipped
1925 seconds off the previous best.
BY way of offsetting the Navy disap
pointment over the defeat of its track
ace, F. Higi!ey and E. HALEY, his team
mates, ran one-two in the intercollegiate
mile. Highley'S time Of 4:42 being 2 AS
seconds faster than the previous best
made last year by Gibson, also MILDLY.
Catholic University got share Of the
glory in this race. too, when Mex Aver
hoff placed creditable third.
Hurdle Mark Broken.
E. Finkelstein, the Southern Confer
ence 70-yard low-hurdles champion and
co-holder of the world record for that
event, bounded to a new mark for the
C. U. games in winning the 50-yard
timber-topping race His time was
6 is seconds, fifth below the old
mark
G.. Baker of Villanova ran away from
small field in the intercollegiate mile
to clip 3 is seconds of the meet rec
ord. His time was 4:41. Roberts OF
William and Mary took second place
from Mcdonald of c. U. in driving
finish
Aided by a 1O-yard handicap, L.
Weaver of Princeton lowered the meet
record for the 440-yard open. in which
L. Dykas of Stonewall Democratic Club
and L. williams of washington and Lee
ran from scratch. Weavers time was
81 SIS seconds, two-fifths under the old
mark established by ]. Davis of Catho-
lie University last night. Pete Drangi-
mis- of Catholic University, with handi-
cap of IL yards, was second with So 3-5
seconds.
A fast quarter by Bernie Siegfried,
running third. enabled Lafayette to best
MARYLAND and Lehigh in mile relay
and to knock 5 as seconds off the track
record. The time was 3:44 l-5.
d, C. Quartet Beaten.
The Meadowbrook Club got off to
comfortable lead and never lost 1t in
the two-thirds of a mile relay, with
Havlor, Boyd, Creffers and Harntford
bearing the winning colors. Stonewall
Democratic Club of Baltimore won
second. and the triple A four Of Wash
ington, due to great anchor effort by
Douglas McChesney, formerly of Duke,
placed third.
Eastern High scored clean sweep
in the high and prep 50-yard low
hurdles, Slye, Carron and Staffer fin
ishing one, two and three. Slye
euualed the meet record of 6 2-5 sec
onds set by himself last year The
field was made up largely of Eastern
athletes.
Ernest Wiles, formerly of Tufts,
brought the crowd to its feet with
brilliant burst of speed to finish first
in the District A. A. U. Smile cham
pionship. Until the last lap Wiles,
representing the Central Y M C. A,
took turns WIN JOnn duncan OF mary
land leading dozen contestants. With
the crack Of the final lap gun Wiles
bounded forward as though starting
sprint and kept the gait to the end.
He left Duncan half lap behind in
second place. Handend of Maryland
was third. The time, II minutes 20
second, was rather slow.
Catholic University took first honors
in the open events with Is points
Princeton and Navy tied for second
with each. Maryland and Washing
ton and Lee came next with 5 apiece.
Virginia had and William and Mary /.
The intercollegiate point trophy went
to Navy with IA. Catholic University
was second with II. Then came Will
liam and Mary, 9; Villanova, 7; Wash
ington and Lee, 5; Virginia, 4, and
Temple, 4.
Eastern dominated the high and
prep school competition with IS points.
La Sale of Philadelphia scored 6. Balti-
more Poly, John Marshall of Richmond,
and West Catholic OF
Philadelphia each collected S. Tech
and Eastern each 4 and Episcopal l.