Evening star., 1942-03-01
Hoya's Big Toss
Only / 1 Inch Off
Outdoor Mark
Rice Breaks 3-MiIe
Mark; MocMiteheII
Beaten by Dodds
BY HAROLD CLAASSEN,

BY HAROLD CLAASSEN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Feb. 28.-Al Blozis,
the Georgetown University foot
baller, established new world in
door shot put record tonight by
pushing the 16-pound iron ball 81
feet, q inch in the final of the Ma
tional A. A. U. championships at
Madison Square Garden.
Irked by his inability to get of
good toss last week in the same
circle at the New York A. c. meet,
Blozis powered the ball to within
u of an inch of the accepted out
door world mark which Jack Tor
rance Of Louisiana State, set
in 1887.
Blozis won the title q year ago
with heave of IS feet, "a inches.
Georgetown also scored brilliantly
in mile relay race, beating Ford
ham. Ohrbach A. C. and Villanova
in the fast time of 3:203. AS usual,
the team was composed of Fish,
Williams, James and Short.
Rice Beats Smile Mark.
Greg Rice, the little dynamo for
merly of Notre Dame, shattered the
world indoor record for the Smile
run by covering the distance in
| 13:45.7.
Rice Tapped every one of his op-
ponents at least twice as he shaved
more than five seconds from the
mark he set a year ago and stole
the shows thunder from Gil Dodds,
who earlier had beaten Leslie Mac
Mitchell in a sensational mile run.
The two races completely over
shadowed trio Of other world rec
ord-breaking efforts by AL Blozis Of
Georgetown In the shot put, by
Seton Halls collection of half
milers in the 2-mile relay and by
John Borican in the 1,000-meter
run.
Rice bruised the boards for
4:349 during the first mile of his
marathon and reached the Emile
mark in 9:15.1 and finished like
100-yard man.
D0dds Beats MacMitchell.
Gil Dodds, the Ashland College
alumnus who learned to run by
correspondence, defeated Leslie
MacMitchell of New York Uni
versity by four feet In the mile
run in 4:087s
Dodds. now representing the Bos-
ton A. A., grabbed the lead on the
fifth time around the 11-lap track
and built up a 15-yard lead. He
hit the halfway mark with that
advantage in 2:032
MacMitchell, beaten for the first
time in 20 starts, opened his rush
on the ninth lap and drew abreast
of Dodds entering the final curve,
but the divinity student pulled
ahead again on the straightaway.
1t was Dodds' first appearance this
winter as miller. Previously he had
competed in the Emile run which
was not on tonights program and
bowed consistently to Greg Rice, al
though always in a better than
average time.
Third place went to Leroy
Schwartzkopf of Yale and fourth to
Walter Mehl, formerly Of Wiscon-
sin and the defending champion.
Wolcott Gets Hurdle Laures.
Fred Wolcott, the old Rice Insti-
tute timber topper, supplanted Al
Ian Tolmich as the king Of the 60
yard high hurdlers and Norwood
Ewen of Penn State took the Co.
yard dash, dethroning Herbert
Thompson Of Jersey City, in meet
record equalling time of 0:062.
Tolmich did not compete this
year. Charles Had of Michigan
Normal College was second to VOL
colt by inches in the 0:07.2 race, a
time the blond young collegian
equalled in the preliminaries.
The big New Englander, now
competing for the New York Ath-
letic Club, tossed the iron SIS feet
11A inches to beat out his team
mate, Frank Berst, ex-Manhattan
College athlete, who turned in a
SIS feet 77s inches performance.
Borican Sets 1000 Meter Mark.
John Borican, the powerful Negro
artist who is one of the world S
better middle distance runners,
boiled to a meet mark in the 1000
yard run with time of 2:10.5 and
then hurried an additional "a yards
for a world mark in the 1000
meters.
He hit the tape in the longer
distance in 2:24.3 to wipe out the
2:26.4 mark Lloyd Hahn set in 1927.
Borican was so hard pressed by
lanky Campbell Kane of Indiana
University in the 1,000-yard run that
he faltered temporarily after burst
ing through the first tape.
He already holds the world marks
in the 1000 and 600-yard indoor
races and only week ago equalled
Hahn's 14-year-old mark for the
half-mile indoors.
Jose Bento de AsSis of Brazil, who
came to the United States month
ago as a heralded sprinter, was
shunted to fourth in the dash, but
came back to win the broad jump
with leap of "a feet, 77s inches.
Roy Cochrane, who enlisted in the
United States Navy only yesterday,
won the 600-yard run in 1:12.4.
shunting James Herbert of New
York, the former world record
holder at the distance, to second
place.
Old G. U. Relay Mark Goes.
Seton Halls quartet of half mileTs,
Anthony Luciano, Frank Fletcher,
Robert Rainer and Chester Lipski,
wiped out the 17-year-old world
record of the Georgetown 2-mile
relay team by getting to the finish
in 1898. The old mark was 7:41.6.
Richmond (Boo) Morcom Of New
Hampshire University, latest pole
vault sensation in the East, defeated
defending champion Earle Meadows
of Los Angeles, with leap Of IA
feet.
New York University won the
sprint medley relay for the fifth
straight year with Seton Hall second.
The time was 1874.
Summaries on Page C-3.)