Evening star., 1940-02-25
16-Pound Ball
Record SET al
s. Feet, g
Fastest Smile Race
Run by Rice; 800
Lost by Beethum
BY the Associated Press.

IeOr8eCOWn university, DrOKe all IN
door records for the 16-pound shot
put tonight with a pitch of 55 feet,
80 inches to win the national A. A.
U. championship before a crowd of
$4,000 in Madison Square Garden.
The heave bettered Frank Ryan S
meet record by 3 feet, II inch and
was foot n inch better than the
as yet unoficial indoor record which
Blozis set week ago in the New
York A. c. meet. The record on the
books is SO feet, 112 inches, set by
Louisiana States behemoth Jack
Torrance in 1895.
Ryan, New York A. c., placed third
as Ed Beetem, another sophomore,
from Pennsylvania, also surpassed
his meet record with a 50 foot 9ss
inch put.
Rice Runs to 3-Mile Mark.
Little Greg Rice of South Bend,
Ind, former Notre Dame captain,
made a runaway of the 3-mile race
with the fastest time ever run in
doors, 1859.
Rice's performance in wiping off
the 15-year-old 3-mile mark of
1862 held by Willie Ritola Was
something that had to be seen to be
believed. Leader from the start, the
toy bulldog commanded a 6O-yard
advantage as the bell Changed for
the final 160 yards.
AS if he were just starting race
instead of finishing one, the out
door 5,000-meter champion cut loose
with sprint and flew into the tape
with almost lap margin over WAL
ter Mehl Of Wisconsin. Don Lash,
the Indiana State cop who won at
5000 meters in 1899, was a bad
third.
First Mile Title for Fenske.
Chuck Fenske made his sixth
straight winning mile the occasion
for his first national championship
tonight. He earned the title with
a 4 minutes 8.8 seconds performance.
Fenske, in his triumph, was aided
at least to some extent by an acci-
dent to the man he replaces at the
head of the mile-running parade.
Coming down the straightaway to
60 into the bell lap, Glenn Cunning
ham stumbled on the curb and took
a full somersault as Gene Venzke.
in third place at the moment, bare
ly lodged him.
Cunningham got up and finished
gamely to take fourth place. but
by then the parade had passed him
by and Fenske came down the last
straightaway the winner by eight
yards over Venzke. with Lou Zam-
perrin of Torrance, Calf, another
five yards back in third place.
McCluskey Gusts Deckard.
Joe McCluskey, the Manchester
Comm veteran, put on fine 2-lap
sprint to take the 2-mile steeple-
chase title and dethrone Tommy
Deckard of Bloomington, Ind, by
10 yards in the comparatively slow
time of 10:034. The New York
A. C.'s George De George was third
and Forest Efaw of Oklahoma A.
and M. fourth.
Another defending titleholder
went down as Anson Perina Of
Princeton, with a leap of % feet
81s inches, supplanted Ed Gordon
of New York as champion in the
broad jump.
John Borican, recordholder at
the distance, opened up in the last
100 yards to retain his title at
1000 yards. The stylist from the
Shore A. c. of Elberon, N. j., had
an 8-yard margin over Olympic
Champion Long John Woodruff and
finished in 2:13, 4/10 of a second
off the meet mark.
Sanford Goldberg, New York's fly
ing fireman, ran a crazy race, which
left him in fifth place at the
finish, behind Edward Burrowes,
Princeton sophomore, and Frank
Slater of the New York A. c.
Ellerbee 60-yards Victor.
Two false starts threw Norwood
(Barney) Ewell, Penn State favor
ite, out of the 60-yard dash final
and the title went to Mozel Eller-
bee of Tuskegee (Ala0 Institute in
an eyelash decision over Eulace Pea
cock of the Shore A. c. Ellerbee
equaled the meet record of 6.2
seconds.
Alan Tolmich of Detroit, by an
equally slim margin, retained his
hurdles championship. He SKINNED
over the barriers in 8.4 seconds tc
cut tenth of second off the meet
and indoor record and shade Larry
O'Connor of Toronto.
In a major surprise, Charley
Belcher of Atlanta, Ca, won the
600-yard run in new meet record
time 1:11.6 as unpredictable Charles
Beutham, defending champion
wound up fourth.
Belcher finished three yards ir
front of Bill Fritz of Canada, who
spurted past Johnny Quigley o1
Manhattan College in the stretch
Beetham, former Ohio State sta1
running under the colors of New
YoHk's 69th A. A., was last most oi
the way.
N. Y. U. Takes Spring Relay.
Jim Herbert remained out of the
600 to lead New York US sprine
medley relay team to an easy vic.
tory.
Earle Meadows, former Olympiar
making his 1910 indoor debut
boosted his own pole vault NEE
record from IA feet 3 inches to II
feet 3% inches in retaining hi.
title.
New York A. G.. easily won thu
meet with Sc points.
Georgetown suffered It's first de.
feat of the season in the mile relay
which New York University won
The Hoyas finished third, but movet
up into second place when the
Boston A. A. team was disqualified
Summaries On Page B-4.
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