Evening star., 1939-01-08
50O-Meter Mark Set
By Wallace in Race
Al Casey Meet
Fordhom Junior Victor
In 1:4.4; Cunningham,
Lush Pace 800, 5000
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Jan. 7.-Wesley
Wallace, Fordham junior, set a
new world indoor record of l minute
a. seconds tonight as he led all
the way to win the Columbus 500
meter run, one of the features of
the Columbus Council K. of G.
track meet at the 245th Coast Ar
tillery Armory.
Wallace threw a minor bombshell
into the opening meet Of the indoor
track season. He sprinted into first
place at the starters gun, opened
up 5-year lead on Mortimer Aln-
wick of Georgetown, and then beat
back a fine closing bid by Lou
Burns, former I. c. "A mile and
half-mile champion, to win by
yards.
The former world record Of los
was shared by Alan Helfrich Of the
United States and Phil Edwards,
rangy Canadian Negro star.
Wallace's triumph was so decisive
that it overshadowed the complete
failure of Jim Herbert, world rec
ord holder and national champion at
600 meters. Herbert had won this
event the last two years, but tonight
he never was better than fifth, and
was last at the finish.
Behind Wallace and Burns in third
place came Dick Squires of the 69th
Regiment A. A., New York. with John
Borican of the Shore A. c., Elberon,
N. j., the national pentathlon cham
pion, fourth.
Lash Scores in 5000.
Collaring his man in approved
police fashion, Don Lash, the In
diana State patrolman, overhauled
Tommy Deckard of Bloomington,
Ind. to win the Conklin Trophy
3,000-meter run.
Lash, never worse than fourth in
the eight-man field, laid back and
let Deckard, his former teammate
at Indiana, make the fast pace.
Don put on killing sprint coming
out of the next-to-last turn and
piled on the heat to win by yards
IN 8 minutes % seconds, ix-tenths
OF a second off the American citi-
zen's record set in this place last
year by Archie San Romani.
San Romani trailed Deckard by
another Is yards in third place,
with George De George of the New
York A. c., national junior steeple-
chase champion, fourth.
Meet Mark for Cunningham.
Glenn Cunningham, probably run
ming extra fast because he had to
make connections with a plane back
to Kansas, ran a race on Lash's
pattern to win the 800-meter Grand
knight Trophy Special in 1853, fast
est time ever returned on the
Brooklyn armory's fiat floor.
The big Kansan let first HOWE
Borck, then Curtis Giddings and
finally Gene Venzke lead the way
until the field Of eight hit the back
stretch.
There Cunningham came Wheel
ing past Venzke to stride easily
across the finish line with 3-yard
margin over the New York A. G.
star. Venzke held off Charley Beet
ham to take second, with Leslie
MacMitchell, former schoolboy flash
who now is a freshman at N. Y. u,
making a good showing by placing
fourth in his big-time debut.
Herbert Weast, Ben Johnson's Sue
cessor as Columbia University's best
sprlnter, and Marty Glickman, for
mer Olympian from Syracuse, tied
IN the great American sprint series
with five points each as Glickman
won the 60-meter and 100-meter
dashes and Weast the 80-meter test,
while Weast was runner-up twice
and Glickman once. Glickman
scored in 6.8 and 100 seconds, re-
spectiyely. The Columbia flyer won
the 30 meters in 88.