Evening star., 1940-05-05
Varsity Records Go
As 1erps 0uhoot
Virginia Team j
W. and N. Nine, Colonial
Netmen Bow; Seton Hall
AIIeeony Boys Win
BY LEWIS F. ATCHIsoN.

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How to win field days and pummel
opponents was Marylands theme
yesterday as the Old Liners made
= clean sweep of varsity events
on its 23d annual sports jamboree.
Briefly, the damage amounted to
an Ito kayo Of William and Mary's
baseball team: 90 spanking Id.
ministered George Washington's
surprised and chagrined netmen:
and a 691z to 56h triumph over
Virginia's highly touted trackmen.
The varsity meet was sandwicf1ed
IN between the annual interscholas-
tic and county school games which
saw Seton Halls crack prep school
squad from East Orange, N. j.,
amass 81 points to win the open
crown.
Allegany High of Cumberland.
defending county champion, rolled
up % points to IA for Hagerstown,
the runner-up. In retaining its title.
Bel Air was third with 10.
Earl Springer, Maryland south
paw, shut out William and Mary
with one hit. a scratch single of
Ted Anderson's bat in the fourth
inning. The ball almost rolled foul.
1t was Springer's third consecutive
victory and only the fifth hit culled
from his offerings In those games.
Terp Homers Rout Indians.
Hugh Keller's homer in the third
and Burton Culver's circuit clout In
the eighth, which featured a 7-run
rally. sealed the Indians fate.
Allie Ritzenberg's 3-set triumph
over Davey johnson in the No. l
singles match featured Marylands
tennis victory. The Colonial ace
secured the upper hand in the first
set with a withering forehand,
cross court barrage, but Ritzen-
berg weathered the storm by sue
cessfully resorting to a tantalizing
lobbing style. johnson was COM
pletely befuddled by his opponents
| tactics.
Two varsity records were broken
and two tied as the Terps outhoofed
their Virginia guests. Three scholas-
tic marks went by the boards and
two were matched while two new
county standards were written on
the books. Whether the records will
be allowed is conjectural because of
a strong wind blowing down the
| track.
Joe Murphy, Maryland's confer
ence sprint champion, equalled the
course record in the century with
a 9.8 second dash and Frank Fuller.
vrglnia's crack timber topper, bet
tered the 120-yard high hurdles
mark with gallop of 14.6 seconds.
Allan Miller and Jimmy Kehoe
equalled the meet records for the
quarter and half miles, respectively,
with runs OF 47.8 seconds and / :56.
Neither was pressed.
Schoolboy Marks Fan.
Seton Hall accounted for thre.
records in the open scholastic class.
Mel Vincent, dash star, scampered
100 yards in 9.8 seconds to equal
Murphy's effort and Don Fries
bounced over the low hurdles in
0:24.8 for another new mark.
Earl Audet, who is r,mored
headed for Georgetown next autumn,
put the 12-pound shot 81 feet 4
inches and missed 60 feet by one
inch when he fouled on his final
try.
Joe Goodman of Mount st,
Joseph's wrote the fourth record in
the book with javelin heave OF
1873 feet 4 inches.
County marks fell to Jim Gaffney,
Allegany's best man, who broke his
shotput record with a throw of n
feet inches, and Sam Leonard of
st. Michael's, who leaped S feet II
inches to a new high Jump standard.