Evening star., 1943-02-14
Short Of Hoyds
Nabs Hollis 500
AT Boston A. 4,
Also Anchors WINNING
Relay Team; Dixon
Takes Hunter Mile
BY the Associated Press

BOSTON, Feb. 13.-Hugh Short,
Georgetown's flying Junior middle
| distance star, led all the way from
gun to tape tonight while defeating
Seaman Charley Beetham of the
! Iowa Naval Pre-Flight School by
yards in the Hollis 900" feature
OF the 54th Boston A. A. track meet
before a capacity crowd of l4,0O0
at the Boston Garden.
| Short, who equalled the late John
Borican's indoor record of 1:10.2 in
| last weeks Millrose meet, was
| clocked in 1:118. which matched the
performance Beetham gave here last
year when he gained his third Hollis
| triumph.
Beetham, who pulled into second
| place after the first lap, finished 5
yards ahead of Russell Owen of Ohio
State, the Big Tens quarter-mile
| titllst, who came up fast during the
last 10 yards to nip the other mem-
Der of the four-man field. the veteran
Jimmy Herbert of New York, by
few inches.
About an hour and half after
gaining his brilliant 800" victory.
Short returned to the track to run
the anchor lead for the Georgetown
mile relay team against Fordham
and st. Johns University.
Short was forced to start 5 Yards
behind AL Hayden, the Fordham
anchor. but he ran such magnifi-1
cent quarter mile that he gave his
quartet an 8-yard victory over the
Rams in 3:24.1, the fastest relay
time of the meet.
Burnham came back less than an
hour after making his surprising
showing in the hunter and ran the
thlrd leg for a Dartmouth quartet
that defeated Syracuse and Cornell
teams in handy fashion.
Dodds Fourth as Dixon Wins.
Frank Dixon, New York Univer.
slty's sensational Negro freshman,
fought off the supposedly invincible
| nnlSnlng squirt of Earl Mitchell of
Indiana, regarded as the seasons
outstanding miller, to win the IA
nous Hunter classic by about a
foot in ALA. Gil Dodds, the home
favorite, shocked the overflow crowd
OF 1922 by winding up fourth in
the flve-man field.
Dixon, who spent the first half
OF the race in third place as Mitchell
and Dodds set the pace, pulled into
second place on the eighth lap and
took over the lead from the Boston
divinity student at the start of the
gun lap.
AS Dixon pulled ahead of Dodds.
Mitchell, running about Is Yards
back in third place, behind Dart
mouths Don Burnham, cut loose
with his mighty squirt. but Dixon
also had enough left to overcome
the Indiana stars terrific effort.
AS Dodds gradually faded, Burn
ham put on strong finish to re-
tain his third position about Ia
yards behind Dixon and a yard in
front of the Bostonian. The other
Hunter starter was Yale's LEROY
Schwarzkopf, who trailed all the
way.
Chunky Greg Rice, now compet- I
ing for the New York A. c.. was
caught in 9:06 fiat while winning
his fourth straight Billings two {
mile event, and his 58th consecu-
tive race He had 40 yards to spare
ON Forest Efaw, a member of the
U. 5. Nays RV-7 forces at Okla
homa A. and M. College, who was
MS runner-up here last year.
Thompson Wins Sprint.
Herbert Thompson. Jersey CITY
nash, gained his third leg on the
Briggs 50-yard dash trophy by beat
ing Edward Conwell, speedy New
York University freshman, by a
matter of a very few inches in 5.4