Evening star., 1941-01-19
Venzke Takes '1,OOO,'
Sets Met. A. A. u.
Games Record
Beats Young Opponents
In 2:l4.2; Mile Is Won
By Becculi in 4:l6.6
BY BILL BONI,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


NEW YORK, Jan. 18.--cere
Venzke seemed little the worse for
the wear and tear Of IS seasons CT
running tonight as he won the
Metropolitan A A. U. 1o00-vard
title in the meet record time Of
2 minutes 142 seconds.
The New York A. c. veteran paced
himself nicely moving into the
lead with two laps to go and finish
ing with room to spare over Walter
Carey of Fordham and Joe Zeitler,
former Manhattan star. who we're
both in rompers when Gene started
racing.
Crowd Gives Gene Hand.
Genes performance over the fast
nine-lap track of the New York Coll
scum won him terrific hand from
the crowd of 4500. itself constituting
one Of the nights numerous meet
records.
Another old-timer representing
the New York A. c., Luigi BeccaA.
tied the meet record for the mile
run in beating last years winner.
Andy Neidnig of Manhattan, and
Jim Rafferty, of the New York A. c.
in a blanket finish.
The time was 4l66, not senSa-
tionaI as big-time miles go, but the
victory may earn Beccah. Olympic
1500-meter champion in 1882, a bid
fnr v cr-
Square Garden February /.
McClusky Beats Youngsters.
The veterans kept marching. in
the 3-mille run it was Joe McClusky,
29-year-old former Fordham runner,
who has won more track titles than
any other man. who showed a clean
pair of heels to a lot OF younger
bloods.
Joe Tapped the entire field in
clipping % seconds off the meet
record with a time of IA minutes
"a seconds.
Elmo Penti his New York Athletic
Club teammate was second.
n. Y. L. Relay Sets Mark.
New York Universitvs relay run
nerS began their quest for a second
straight clean sweep of the Metro.
polltan A. A. U. baton-passing title
by setting a new indoor record of
l:467 in winning the l0O0-yard
medley.
Dave Lawyer, N. Y. US anchor
man, brought the Violets home the
oh I,-
Bob Winn on the final turn and
mailing him in the home stretch by
daylight. The time bettered N. Z.
u 1910 meet mark of 1:47l, con-
stituted an unofficial indoor world
record, since the event is contested
very rarely.
Herbert Captures soc"
Slim Jim Herbert, n. Y. L. gr21-
uate now representing the Grand
Street Boys, ran front race all the
way to take the 600-yard final IN
1:l21, another meet record, by five
feet from Manhattan Sophomore
Johnny Quigley. the 1910 winner.
Herbert, indoor world record
holder cut hall a second off his
1897 meet mark as Quigley. clocked
in 1:12.4, also came in under the
former record
Another meet record went BY the
boards in the 60-yard dash. Tom
Carey of the New York Pioneer
Club retained his title in 6.3 Sec
onds as he nosed out Herb Weast of
the New York A. c. the former
mark, ga, was shared by Bob NJ
Allister the flying cop. and HI
Thompson, who pullod up la
tonight
Manhattan Colleges Ten c.
land won the 60-vard hir1D ?rr+
in 76 as Eddie Gordon. v-'-n y
won the broad iumn for 49, -
time in six years. PLACID second.
Violets Sweep RELAYS.
The string of broken records was
good for another as Harold Bogrow
brought New York Universitys mile
relay team home 2 yards ahead Of
Fordham. anchored by the highly
touted sophomore, Jack Campbell.
The Violets' time of 1928 bettered
their own 1910 mark of 3:249 set
with the aid of Herbert.
N. Y. U. completed its relay sweep
by setting another meet mark.
1905 in the Ia mile medley. This
time it was Leslie MacMitchell, with
an anchor mile of Alas, who turned
the race into one-m9n show. Lead
ing the st. Johns anchor man over
the finish line by better than half
a lap.
New York University had set the
former meet mark a year ago at
1888 but missed in its try fo~ t.
world indoor record Of 1875 st
several years ego by tie Brown
and Rideout twins of North Texas
Teachers.