The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-10
MORE RECORDS
 EXPECTED IN NEW YORK GAMES
New York A. C. Meet Sat= urday; Macmitchell New
 Mile Star
BY PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)

United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)
 New York, Feb. 10-(UP)-The all-star track and field show settles down to a four-week stay at Madi- son Square Garden beginning with the New York Athletic clubs annual carnival Saturday. The cinder men last week trouped in Newark, Phil adelphia and Boston.
 The Buermeyer 500, the Halpin 880, the Baxter mile and the Tous- saint two-mile feature the N. Y. A. c. meet which has again attracted an all-star gathering of the nations best track and field talent and will be followed on successive Saturdays by the National A. A. U., Intercol- legiate A. A. A. A. and the New York K. of 0. games.
 Interest is divided equally be- tween the mile and two-mile events, the Baxter mile is expected to pro- duce the runner who will top the field at that distance for the re- mainder of the season.
 Best Miller.
 Les MacMitchell, N. Y. U. sensa- tion and winner of Boston's Hunter mile in 4:1O7 Saturday night, John Munski, Gene Venzke and Luigi Beccali have already signed for the mile. Formal entries from Walt Mehl and Chuck Fenske will con- plete the field.
 Greg Rice, invincible over the two- mile route this season, may be forced to new record to overcome the challenge of a comparative new conner, Mel Fruit of Indiana. Rice scored his sixth straight victory of the current season and 18th straight over a tWo-season span at the BoS- ton A. A. games Saturday, beating Don Lash by Is yards in the fast time of 9:03.3.
 The field for this event will i1- clude, besides Rice and Fruit, Lash, Joe McLuskey, Ralph Schwarzkopf, Tommy Deckard, Forest Flaw, Bob- by Madrid and George DeGeorge.
 Jimmy Herbert, winner in 1888 and 1940, tops the field for the Buermeyer 50O He finished second to Charley Beetham in Boston's Hollis 600 and will face John Quig- ley, runner-up for two years, and two newcomers, John Campbell ot Fordham and Bob Simmons, Ne braska, on Saturday.
 Chief rivals in the 880 will be Jim Kehoe, Washington A. C., who scored five-yard victory in Sat- urday's Lapham 1000, John Borican, Beetham and Charlie Breidenbach of Michigan. Beetham set new track record in winning the Hollis 600 in 1:12.
 Rice Champ.
 Fred Wolcott, Rice University's champion hurdler who set his third successive record Saturday with a O:O5.6 docking, features the hurdles event. Ed Dugger, Allan Tolmich and Larry O'Connor will also con- pete. Wolcott's previous marks were O:07.2 in the Millrose 60 and 0:06.1 in the Penn A. c. 50.
 Eulace Peacock, Bill Carter, Dave Lawyer and Hal Stickel headline the sprinters; Earle Meadows, who scared to Affect 67s inches world mark Saturday, breaking the Affect 6 1-8 inch Boston record set by Cornelius Warmerdam in 1889, and Kenny bills, head the pole vaulters; Mel Walker is favored in the high jump and Al Blozis of Georgetown who broke the world indoor record every time out in the Garden last season, will resume short-putting.
 There will be 10 relays at one and two miles with Dordham's one-mile relay foursome, which set Boston record of 3:212 entered.
 Last track record set at Boston Saturday was the 0:$5.3 turned in by Herb Thompson in the semi-final of the 50-yard dash. Hal Davis of California took the final in 0:05.4.