Evening star., 1940-02-18
Graves Lowers
1000 Mark in
Gotham Meet
Hilltop ReIoy Wins;
Kehoe Tokes Third
In Holpin $50
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-Chuck
Fenske, the 1910 mile sensation, ran
his winning streak to five straight
tonight In capturing the 9th rlin-
ming Of the New York A. C.'s Bax-
ter Mile In 4:074 before crowd Of
$1,000 at Madison Square Garden.
Putting on killing sprint for the
last three-quarters of q lap, the
bespectacled University of WASH
ington graduate student collared
Lou Zamperini in 40 yards of
straightaway and then won by 3
yards.
The time equaied the fastest ever
recorded indoors for a competitive
race turned in by Glenn Cunning
ham In the 1898 Knights of Colum-
bus games and matched by Fenske
two weeks ago in the Millrose meet,
when he beat Cunningham by 8
yards.
Tonight Glenn suffered his worst
defeat of his poorest season. Beaten
hve times up to this race, once by
Gene Venzke and four times BY
Fenske, he could do NO better than
fourth as Venzke shaded him for
third place. They were clocked in
Identical time. 4:088 while Zam-
perini, who had gone into the lead
with two laps to 60, was timed
In 4:079.
This was the second time this
winter that four milers finished un-
der 400. The Millrose was the other.
G. U. Wins Relay Scramble.
Georgetown's mile relay team
scored a victory over Pittsburgh in
1924, in race in which Holy
Cross did not finish after its lead
on man had the baton knocked
out Of his hand in a brush with
Motzenbecker, the Hoyas' lead-off.
Holy Cross had got away in the
lead, but on the first turn Motzen-
becker put out his hand as he
started to come outside the Cru
sader runner. All he got out Of
1t was lost yardage, for the push
sent the Holy Cross man q yard or
two farther in front.
The next time around they got
IN another scramble, and the Holy
Gross man lost his baton. With
Braun, Lyden and Alnick follow
ing Motzenbecker, the Hoyas then
had little trouble beating Pitt.
Graves Betters Meet Mark.
Lanky Phil Graves, Georgetown
freshman, waited only until the
competition was Is minutes old to
set a new games record.
In the first section of the 1000
yard handicap, Leslei MacMitchell,
New York U. sophomore, had come
from 10th place at the bell to win
from scratch In 2:14.2, 2 4/1O Sec
onds faster than the mark credited
to Princeton's Bill Bonthron in 1882.
Graves, lone scratch man in the
second section, worked his way
through the big field even faster
than MacMitchell had done, to be
in front with two laps to go and
win with yards to spare over Ben
Holderness, formerly of Yale, in
2:14 fiat. Holderness had q 25-
yard start.
Blozis in Record Feat.
The Garden seasons first shot,
put competition saw two men better
the American indoor record. First
to do so was Frank Ryan Of the
New York A. G. with a heave of 50
feet 3A inches.
But Ryan barely had stepped out
Of the circle before AL Blozis,
Georgetown University's young
giant, pushed the 16-pound ball SO
feet 8A inches and pushed the
record 6N inches beyond the stand
ard set by. Jack Torrance of Louis
lana State in 1895.
OF his half dozen heaves on the
way to his record Blozis had two
better than Torrances old mark.
Before pitching the one that brought
him the new mark he had put one
out So feet 3A inches.
The Georgetown giants other ef-
forts were 81 feet 95s inches, 81 feet
11h, So feet and So feet 6H. In
third place behind Ryan came Ed
Beetam of the U. of Pennsylvania,
largest Of the whales" with best
performance Of 81 feet on inches.
Kehoe In Third Place.
Long John Woodruff won his
second straight Madison Square
Garden half-mile race Of the season
as he nipped John Borican to take
the Mat Halpin $50 In minute 52.8
seconds, equal to the meet and
Garden records. a.
Long John won the Millrose $50
in identical time two weeks ago.
Tonight he led for the first lap
and q half, then surrendered the
pace to Borican. Coming Oh the last
turn, Long John was at Borican,s
shoulder. At that point Borican bore
(see FENsKE, Page B-sJ