Evening star., 1933-05-28
.B0NTHRON, NASSAU
ACE, DOUBLE VICTOR
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three years the iron man of college dis
tance tracks and considered just about
unbeatable McC.uskey met mis- Water
Zoo in little Jack Ryan of Manhattan
College. who passed the Fordham star
10 the amaZement of crowd Of $4,000
in the beck-stretch of the last lap and
left Joe foundering with a. brilliant
finish in the 3,000-meter final.
Ryan won by 20 yards as McCluskey,
finding himself unable to match strides
with his sandy-haired rival in the home
stretch. nearly collapsed and barely
staggered home to save second place
from the rush of New York University S
George Barker.
Scarcely less surprising was the fail
ure of any of the highly touted cham
pions or record holders in the pole vault
to clear anything better than Is feet s
inches. Five of them finished in tie
for first place at that figure, after all
missed three chances at IA feet. in
cluding Keith Brown of Yale. Eastern
favorite: Bill Graber of Southern Cali
fornia, national champion and holde~
OF the best vault on record. and Bill
Miller of Stanford, Olympic title holder
who was handicapped by a weak, BAN
daged ankle.
Brow's bid for double" netted Yale
6 points. as the Eli star, between vaults,
gained third place to Spitz IN the high
jump with leap of feet inches.
A LTHOUGH Eastern teams had the
IA satisfaction of winning 8 of the Is
individual titles outright. besides
sharing in another, their hopes suf
fered setback when Jimmy Luvalle,
flashy sophomore runner from the Uni
versity of California at Los Angeles,
raced of with the 400-meter final in
the brilliant tine of 469 seconds. Lu-
valle ran q front race all the way to
beat Howard Jones of Pennsylvania by
3 yards and Karl Warner, Yale ace,
by 4.
Jones came back in the last event to
win the 200-meter dash from Bob Kane
of Cornell in 21.3 seconds thereby gain
ing nine of Pennsylvania total of IL
points. This completed an Eastern
sweep of the two dashes, as Dick Hardy.
sturdy Cornellian, broke the tape first
in the 100 meters, beating Les Ball of
Southern California in 1913 seconds in
one of the days closest finishes.
The failure of Les Hables of STAN
ford to reach the final of either sprint
was a costly setback to the Indians. He
Yesterday in the l00-meter semi-finals
and was eliminated today in the 200
meter semi-flnals, after being picked to
score in both events.
MOT even the sweep of Stanfords
IN Giants in the weight events and
the fine performances of the low
hurdlers, Herbert and Meier, in placing
first and third In the 200-meter low
hurdles final, could pull the Indians
over the handicap of poor showing in
the track events. Lyman, the record
Gray collected II points in the shotput.
Henri Laborde, with winning throw OF
1e2 feet 1912 inches, and Dunn and
Gray gathered II more points in the
discus.
Southern California's only winner
was Bob Lyon. in the 110-meter high
hurdles, in which his teammate, Jeddy
Welsh, was the victim Of bad fall mid
way in the race. This was one of the
few Trojan setbacks, as the champions
came through otherwise in fine style.
They placed two point winners in the
100, 400. the high hurdles, the broad
jump. the high jump and the javelin.
To show how well balanced the Trojan
strength was, U. S. c. tailed 81 points
in the track events and "a in the field
features.
The only champion to retain his title
outright was Pete Zaremba Of New
York University in the hammer throw,
although Bill Graber Of Southern Cali
fornia shared top honors in the pole
vault for the second straight year.