Evening star., 1933-03-05
c. j. RUNNER TIES
| OLD MARK IN HEAT
Yale Is Victor in |. c. "A
Title Meet-Penn Relay
in World Feat.
BY ALAN GOULD.
YEW YORK, March 4.-In a
NJ rousing finish marked by
: Y record performances in

n YEW YORK, March 4.-In a
M rousing finish marked by
/ Y record performances in
four events, including a
new world indoor mark for the
one-mile relay by Pennsylvania
great quartet, Yale University's
track and field team came from
behind to beat out New York Uni
versity, defending title holder, for
the intercollegiate A. A. A. A. in
door championship tonight.
The Ellis, due mainly to a record
breaking sweep of the first three places
In the pole vault and a sensationally
close victory in the high hurdles by
George lockwood, finished with a win
ming total Of 80 points.
New York University, second with %
points, saw its last chances go glim-
merirg in the final event, the l-mile
relay, when the first Violet runner, Sid
Shieftar, fell in the first scramble for
positions, dropped his baton and was
d1stanced. Yale had a two-point lead
going into this event and easily added
to 1t by placing fourth behind the rec
ord-breaking Penn team.
Manhattan College barely defeated
yale Tor third place in the relay and
thereby picked up enough points to fin
isn tnird, with 20 points. Penn was
fourth with 111z.
nICK BELL Of Massachusetts, Tech
II set new intercollegiate A. A. A.
A. indoor record of seconds fat
Tor the 70-yard dash in winning the
maj In a blanket finish from Al Kelly
OF Georgetown and Dick Hardy of Cor
nell
The former mark of IL seconds was
set In 1928 by Harold Lever of Penn
and equaled several times, three times
IN tonientS prellmlnaries. Kelly tied it
IN taking his qualifying heat.
Bells time equaled the world indoor
record. set by Loren Murchison in 1923
and equaled this Winter by Ralph Met
calfe, the Marquette flyer. The Tech
stars margin over Kelly and Hardy was
inches at the tape.
RESIDES the mile relay and the
~ sprint meet records were toppled
In the 2-mile run by Joe McClus-
Key OF Fordham and in the pole vault
Yale. t''0-i VI
Keith Brown contributed 81 points
70 Yale's winning total by tying
thompson in the pole vault at 13 feet
inches, new record, and also tying
the New York University ace, George
Spitz, in the high Jump, at feet
"a inches. Spitz won the broad Jump
and collected nine. points.
McCluskey, who won the 2-mile run
ior the third straight year in record
time, 9:l6.2. was the only champion
to repeat. McCluskey was never pressed
at any stage and finished rs yards in
front Of Ryan Of Manhattan.
GEORGE LOCKWOOD Of Yale was
" declared the winner of the To-
yard high hurdle final. in the
closest finnish CT the meet, after a long
consultation b. officials and an ex-
animation Of the pictures made by
the timing camera. Okie of Princeton
was second. All six finalists finished
within two feet of each other.
The one-mile run was captured by
Frank Crowley Of Manhattan, who stood
of the last-lap challenge of the out
door college champion, Joe Mangan of
Cornell, and won by q good II yards in
the fast time Of 4 minutes 1876 sec
onds Bonthron ran a winning anchor
half-mile for Princtons two-mile relay
team. but he had to uncork a real burst
Of speed in the final stretch to beat
Patterson Of Columbia by three yards.
These two teams outclassed seven other
rivals
Mortimer Rexnick, national 35-pound
| weight throw champion, annexed the
title In that event as he tossed the big
ball SO feet 2A inches. Hilman B.
Holcombe Of Yale, was second at So
feet inch.