Evening star., 1938-03-06
BY ALAN GOULD.
Associated Press Sports Editor.

SaSSoSAateu 6ACSs SpOttS GullOI.
NEW YORK. March 5.-Six meet
records were smashed tonight, as Co.
lumbia' University's athletic array
snatched team triumph from theil
Manhattan rivals in De final event
OF the intercollegiate A. A. A. indoor
track and field championships at
Madison Square Garden. Columbia
retained the team title, with u points
to Manhattan's "a.
Ben johnson, Negro king of the
indoor sprinters. and his teammate
Herb Weast, clinched the meet 10,
Columbia by 1aishing 2-3 in the
broad jump, the final contest. sfte,
running l-2 in the 60-yard dash.
johnson yielded the broad jumr
title as well a. the meet record to
Anson Perina OF Princeton, who
cleared "a feet, 2 inches to top the
field.
Yale. which had been picked to
give Columbia the closest tussle for
team honors, finished third with Ia
points. Other team totals: Prince
ton, 1917; Cornell, 1879; N. Y. U.
Is; Rhode Island State, l4ls: Dart
mouth, 1872; Harvard, 8la: Pitts
burgh. Z; Penn State, 6; Fordham, S:
Amherst and Boston College, each;
Northeastern. q; Colgate ard Penn
sylvania. IL: Brown, /, and Massa-
chusetts Tech, n.
Manhattan's rangy Howard Borck
ran record-smashing 600-yard race
TO take the measure of the favcrite,
dusky Jim Herbert Of New York Uni
versity, with surprising ease. A crowd
OF $4,000 roared as Borck pulled out
in the stretch to win by 10 yards
from the Negro star. who had met
only one previous setback in a dozen
races on the boards this season.
The victor's time, 1:12, was the fast
est for any 600-yard race this winter
and clipped more than a second of
the former meet record of 1871, set
last year by Eddie O'Brien of Syra-
cuse.
Borck's performance compared IA
vorably with the world indoor mark
OF Ills, set by Chuck Hornbostel
Of Indiana in 1895.
Borck's Mark Fourth Of Meet,
Borck hung up the fourth new
meet record as Columbia's defend
ing championship team maintained
q lead gained early.
Ptttsburgh's crack quartet, an
chored by Long John Woodruff, the
Olympic 800 meters champion, scored
decisive victory over the favored
New York University team in the
1-mile. relay final. Woodruff ran
his anchor 40 yards in 48.8 seconds
to stand of the challenge of Jim Her.
bert of N. Y. u, and win by yards.
Pitt, with Oil, Ferrara and Mckee
running in that order before Wood
run took the baton, set all the pace
The winners time was 1922.
Frank Ryan, Columbia shotputter
bettered the meet mark with a toss
OF 81 feet 10a inches. This displaced
the record jointly set at so feet 95s
inches by Dimmy Zaitz of Boston Col
lege and Danny Taylor of Columbia
last winter.
Ben johnson, Columbias king of
indoor sprinters, lowered the meet
record for the 60-yard dash to So
seconds in the semi-finals This
clipped q tenth second of the mark
johnson set a year ago. It also
equalled the listed world indoor rec
ord. but the dusky flyer did sec
onds nat earlier this winter, to claim
q new mark.
Folwartshny Retains Title.
Irving Folwartshny, husky New
Englander, representing Rhode Island
State, won the 35-pound weight throw
with a heave of IS feet 6A inches.
National A. A. U. indoor champion,
Folwartshny retained the I. G. "A
crown by q margin of almost feet
over his nearest rival, Bill Shallow
of Harvard, who nosed Dave Warren
of Rhode Island State out for second
place with . heave of 81 feet l0A
inches. Warrens mark was 81 feet 6%
inches.
Ted Day of Yale equaled the cham
pionship record Of rs seconds IN the
semifinals Of thu 60-yard high
hurdles, then set q new mark OF IA
as he won the final in . blanket
finish. Day caught and passed the
former record holder, John Donovan