Evening star., 1939-04-30
Gritty in Stretch,
Fenske Beats
borican
$1,000 at Drake Meet
Thrilled by 3-Yord
Victory in 1000

BY the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, Iowa, April o.
John Borican, indle-legged Negro
from New York, travelled 1000 miles
to test his famed legs in special
1.OOO-yard race winding up the
Drake relay carnival today and
failed by 3 precious yards to triumph.
Charles Fenske, formerly of the
University of Wisconsin,, outgamed
and unfinished Borican in a thriller
before a crowd of 10000.
Fenske, rated as the chief rival
to Kansas Glenn Cunningham as
the Nations greatest miller, con-
uuered the Negro in stretch duel,
covering the distance in 2:l2.2.
Borican, squirting into the lead
from the inside lane, maintained his
advantage until near the finish of
the second turn over the 40 yard
cinder oval, with Fenske always a
stride behind him. Then the red
shirted former Badger poured on
the heat and inch by inch began
chopping down Borican's lead.
Borican Tires in Stretch.
They ran shoulder to shoulder in
to the stretch turn and there Fenske
began to pull gradually away. Driv-
ing his spikes into the cinders he
settled the race, so yards from the
finish. There was no doubt OF his
triumph then as Borican was firing
rapidly.
Calvin Bell of Rice and Raymond
Gahan of Oklahoma, the other
starters, never threatened the lead
ers. Fenske. who won the l,0O0-yard
championship here a year ago. beat
ing Cunningham's time for the dis
tance, was defending that honor.
He failed, however, by IL seconds to
equal the time he hung up in the
1888 carnival.
The windup today saw four more
carnival records ripped from the
book. bringing the two days total to
seven. The Oklahoma Aggies start
ed it by winning the 4-mile relay in
1926 to shade Missouris mark Of
a year ago by seconds.
Relay Records Fall.
A game quartet from George
Pepperdine College, Los Angeles,
smashed the next record by winning
the 2-mile college relay in 7:43.4,
and the college first division 1-mile
mark fell when the Southwest State
Teachers College four of San Mar
cos, Tex, sprinted the route in
Bits.
Ohio State climaXed the day with
a smashing triumph in the 1-mile
university relay, establishing rec
ord of 3:14.l to blot out the old
mark of 3:15.4 made by the Uni
versity of Iowa year ago.
The Buckeyes barely nosed' out
Louisiana State in a nerve tingling
finish. Church, running as anchor
man for the SOutherners, in turn
nosed out Iowa for second place.
Church caught his Iowa rival in the
last stride and fell over the finish
line, face downward in the cinders,
with the other struggling runners
leaping over him.
Freddie Wolcott, headed hur-
dler from Rice Institute, Houston,
Tex, skinned to victory in the 120-
yard high hurdles to repeat his
triumph of year ago. Wolcott
cleared the barriers in IA today,
compared with 142 in 1887.
Dash Time Is Slow.
After Wolcott had won-he's never
lost a hurdle race outdoors-the
other specialists lined up. Billy
Brown of Louisiana State flashed
to victory in the 10O-yard dash,
beating the Big Ten outdoor cham
pion, John Davenport of the Uni
versity of Chicago, to the tape by
a step in 10, slowest time in the
event in Drake competition in 10
years. Myron Piker, Northwestern.
indoor Big Ten champion, pulled up
with a strained muscle after setting
the pace.
Lilburn Williams, ponderous
Negro from Xavier, New Orleans,
captured the shotput with a toss of
81 feet 3 inches. Bob Diefenthaler
of Illinois took the high jump with
leap of 6 feet 55s inches, only
three e-eighths of an inch away from
the 17-year-old record hung up by
Harold Osborne, also of Illinois.
Honors in the javelin throw went to
Robert Waldram of Missouri, who
hurled the spear 2024 feet.
Gregory Rice, Notre Danes SEN
sational middle distance runner, was
the hardest worker of the carnival.
He ran to a 2-mile record yesterday
Today he handled the third half
mile in Notre Danes 2-mile relay
victory and furnished Anchor Man
Hester with the margin needed for
victory. Rice ran the anchor mile
in 4:12.5, in the 4-mile relay in
which race Oklahoma Aggies set
their record