Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-02
Versatile Youngster
Will Concentrate
On Pole Vault
Manual Trainers Ball
Team, Under CIorey,
Appears Strong
By GEORGE HUBER.

BY GEORGE HUBER.
Bob Landmark, wiry 17-year-old
Tech High senior, easily might be
the sensation of Washington's scho-
lastic track season, just as Techs
Eddie Barham, the high-jump rec
ord smasher, was last year.
Bob specializes in the pole vault,
but, like Barham, does lot of things
well, including the high jump, broad
jump, Shotput and hurdles. He
likely will concentrate his winning
and record-breaking efforts on vault
ing this season-although he will be
good for points in most of the other
events he enterS-and If he contin-
ues in the same style as last year
lot of new records will be set.
A transfer from Erie, Pa, Bob
holds the Pennsylvania State inter-
scholastic meet record of II feet 3
inches, first set by him in 1910 and
tied last year. He probably would
have done better in the 1941 meet
except for a cut wrist received sew
eral days previously.
Landmark figures to do more than
1873 this season, but even at that it
Is better than most of the records
around here. The interhigh mark
is IL feet inches, set in 1928 by Jim
Proctor of Central. The &C" Club
record, made in 1885 by Alvin Web
ster of Harrisonburg, is IL feet y
inch. The only mark here better
than Bob's is the University of
Maryland interscholastic record of
70 feet 4 inches made three years
ago by John Bartles Of Newport
News.
Handicapped by Short Pole.
The only thing keeping Landmark
from doing better in practice is lack
of a long pole. The best at Tech
Is Is feet long, and Coach Dutch
Usilaner is hunting all over town
for a 16-foot stick. Then watch the
records tumble. Bob is doing 20
feet in the broad jump, high-jump-
ing feet 8 inches and throwing the
shot better than 40 feet. These fig
ures aren't exactly sensational and
probably wouldn't win in the inter-
high meet, but they are becoming
better all the time and at least will
earn places.
Aside from Landmark, Techs
track team figures to be pretty good,
although Usilaner has only one let
terman returning from last year.
He is AL Nencioni, who will run the
100 and 900. He finished fourth in
both those interhigh events last
season. Dutch has number OF
football players on the track team,
among them Joe Flocker, Jim
Brooksbank and Bill Spicer, all dash
men; Bill Earman for the discus
and shot and Jim Gilmore for the
broad jump. Among the other field
event contestants is Chris Columbe,
third in the high jump last year.
Tech has a number of good milers,
with Usilaner especially keen on
Stanley Hollander, Don Gray and
Bernie Borrow. Leonard Brooks, miller
last season, is shifting to the high
hurdles, where his long legs come
In handy.
John Clarey is succeeding Usilaner
as Techs baseball coach, and his
squad in practice, the infield par
ticularly, indicates it will be a stand
out on defense, comparing favorably
with any schoolboy team in Wash
ington, with the hitting fair and
pitching good.
Slab Holdovers Capable.
Clarey has paid of good pitching
holdovers, Sam Webb and Dan
O'Connen. Sam is a brother OF
Buddy Webb, Techs pitching ace
last year and an all-high choice, al
though he is not nearly so broad
across the beam. He played a lot
of sandlot ball last summer and Is
due for at least half the starting
jobs. O'Connell is another valuable
tosser. A quiet chap, he is cool under
fire and is good especially with men
on bases, usually one OF the big
weaknesses of high school mounds
men.
Lettermen with the team are John
Harvill, catcher; Howard Keithley,
first base, and Gil SchmeZ, second
base. Hank Pizza is giving Harvin
a tussle for the backstopping job
and has lot of experience to help
him. Hank for several years has
hung around Griffith Stadium dur
ing the summer and helped warm up
visiting pitchers. Jack Ray, son OF
the Central High baseball coach, and
Jackie Walsh (no relation to the
Jackie Walsh who was Techs out
standing athlete two years ago. are
the leading third base candidates,
while shortstops are Charles Varney
and Bob Brewers. Short will be a
particularly tough spot to fill at
Tech as the Maroons last season had
an all-high player, Martin Reds)
Green, in that position.
The leading outfield candidates
are Chris Papas, Give Bradley,
Knobby Mater and Richie Brown,
with Bud Curtis, substitute first
baseman, a possibility in the out
field also because of his hitting. He
is one of the best stickmen on the
team, as are young Walsh and
Schmelz. Papas also is handy with
a bat.