Evening star., 1943-04-25
Greg Is Far Off
Own Record in
Easy Victory
Irish Take Distance
Race; Virginia First
In Hurdle Event
BY HUGH FULLERTON, Jr.


PHILADELPHIA, April 24-Greg
Rice, the old master of 2-mile run
ming, took up where his understudy
left off today and showed 10000
fans at the 49th University of Penn
sylvania Relay Carnival the only
record-breaking performance of the
2-day meet.
Making his outdoor start of a
campaign he hopes will lead to a
series of meetings with Sweden's
world record holder, Gunder Haegg,
Rice ran off and hid from his field
in the invitation 2-mile race. His
time of 9:122, while it was nowhere
near Haeggs unofficial world record
of 8:47.8 or even Rice's own indoor
mark of 8:51, was creditable under
the conditions and it was more than
good enough to beat the carnival
mark of 9:176 set by Indiana's Fred
Wilt in 1941.
Rice, as usual, didn't have any
ompetition-he finished some 125
yards ahead of Glenn Masten, Col
gates indoor intercollegiate cham
pion, and the track itself was slow,
as indicated by the failure of any
one else even to come near meet
record.
Irish Win, But Miss Record.
The former Notre Dame speedster
came in to take the days top honors
after another Notre Dame ace, Ollie
Hunter, had turned in a series of
crowd-pleasing performances. Hunt
er climaxed 2-day job by running
4:229 anchor mile in the 4-mile
relay to give the Irish a 20O-yard
margin over Penn State. On Fri
day Hunter had anchored the win
ming distance medley relay team
and also had won Emile race in
9:244
The Irish missed out in their
bid for a new 4-mile relay record,
turning in a dull time of 17::543 as
compared to Indiana's meet and
world standard of 17:16.2
Despite the absence of records,
there was plenty of competition to-
day and no one team was able to
dominate the show. The only
double went to Camp Pickett, Va,
which sent up Maj Chester Cruick-
Shank, former Colorado College
athlete, to win the hammer throw
and Corp. Joshua Williamson to
capture the high jump. William-
son, after leaping 6 feet, 63s inches,
tried to beat Adam Berry's meet
mark of 6-7Ha, but couldn't make it.
New York U. on Top in Mile.
The coveted mile relay crown
went to New York University in an
exciting finish as Frank Cotter out
lasted Michigan's Bob Ufer who
found room along the rail on the
back stretch to move up on to the
leaders heels.
Other major relay winners were
Army's half-mile team. Michigan's
undefeated 2-mile quartet and Vir-
glnlas hurdle team. Harvey Kelsey
OF Princeton beat out Eulace Pea
cock of the Manhattan Beach IN.
" Coast Guard in the invitation
lOO-yard dash; Peacock won the
broad jump, Richmond (Boo) Nor
com of New Hampshire the pole
vault ana j. Garland Adair, former
Texan now at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, the javelin throw.
Virginia's hurdlers, with Tom
Todd picking up a lot of ground on
the last leg, easily won the 480-yard
shuttle hurdle relay in the good
time OF l:O2, missing the meet rec
ord by IL seconds.
In about the best individual race
OF the carnival, Harvey Kelsey out
lasted Pvt. Norwood Barney EWell of
Camp Lee, Va, to win the invitation
100-yard dash in 9.8 seconds. Ewell.
former national champion who
never has won Penn relays sprint,
was moving up at the finish but
failed by about 2 feet to catch Kel-
sey.
Summaries on Page C-3.)