The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-15
DON LASH VOTED HALLkHAN CUP
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Indiana Two.Mile Runner Gets zI Votes, VarOff
 20 at Hub

Boston, Feb. 15--(U.P1 = Blond Don Lash, the Indiana Iron Horse" has been selected the outstanding athlete of Saturdays B. A. 4. meet during which he added the world indoor two-mile championship to his outdoor title.
 A committee of nine Boston sports editors aro track officials last night awarded Lash the Hallahan Mem- oria1 Trophy after q battle of bal- lots that saw the Hoogier ace win the coveted honor by one point. Runncr-ip honors went to George varoff of Oregon University who became the worlds No. pole vauIter by reaching a new indoor altitude f fl feet 1 7-e inches.
 Lssh received 2i of a possible 27 points. Varoff received 20. The 1n- diana runner got. two firsts and five seconds and shared two flrsts with Varof who picked lip three first, two seconds and three thirds. Points were computed on q 3-2-1 basis.
 Dick Gill, whose sensational aD- cbor leg enabled Boston College to edge Holy Cross in the mile relay, polled nine votes to place third. Bee hind him was Sam Allen of Okla- homa who accounted for the third new world record when he ran q 45-yard high hurdles trial heat in 57 seconds. Allen collected two votes.
 Johnny Donovan of Dartmouth, 1C41 hurdles champ who upset Ale len in the final heat, and Jim Lightbody, Jr., anchor man on the winning Harvard freshman relay team, each received one vote.
 Split Da1lotlng for top honors re- fiected the calibre of the perform ances turned in by Lash and Var of.
 It was the record -shat ttering feaB of these two athletes that dominated an historic meet wit- messed by the biggest track gather ing in Boston's history--13,682 paid customers.
 Oddly enough, the two outStand- ing stars Of the meet made their world records simultaneously.
 While Lash was pulling farther and farther away from classy fielf in the two-mile run, Varoff was vaulting to new indoor high of 14 feet 7-8 inches of in one corner of the Garden.
 Varoff reached the new altitude on his second try after he. Sueo Dye, the Japanese sensation and Earl Meadows of Southern Califor- mia. the olympic champion, had negotiated 14 feet 2 inches. Dye and Meadows failed in three at- tempts with the bar at the new rec- ord mark. Varoff, who holds the outdoor title at 14 feet, 6 leg inches, thus broke the 14 foot, inch rec ord made three years ago by Yale's Keith Brown.
 Meanwhile on the pine saucer, another pulsating drama was being enacted. Lash, who had bolted to the front at the gun, set a blister ing pace that left a sparkling field that included the rideout twins, Norman Bright, Ray Sears, Joe Mc- Cluskey and Miklos Szabo far be- hind.
 The crown soon sensed that his- tory was in the making. When Don crossed the finish line three-quar- ters Of q lap ahead of Bright he was greeted with thunderous applause. Tn covering the distance fin S:58 minutes. be had clipped one-flfth of q second from the previous record made 12 years ago by Paavo Nurmi.
 Lash's record breaking feat made fans forget the disappointment of the Hunter mile which was won by Glenn Cunningham in 4:12.3 over 6 fleld that was limited to three when Lash withdrew at the last minute to concentrate on the two-rnile. Venzke placed second and Art Clarke, Canadian mile chapion, last.