Evening star., 1943-02-07
World 500 Mark Tied
By Short Of Hoyas
In Mi||rose Meet
Wormerdom Betters IS
Feet in Vault; Service
Stors Take Races
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORF, Feb. 6.-With
smashing last-lap drive Hugh Shor
OF Georgetown equaled the world in
door record tonight when he wol
the classic Mel Shappard 600 a
the Millrose games in Madison
Square Garden.
Passing Bob Ufer, Michigan'
Western Conference indoor cham
pion, as the gun barked the star
of the final turn around tn
boards. Short pulled away to win b,
S yards in 1:102 before a Grove
of $4,000. The time matched tht
international standard set by the
late John Borican in 194l.
Ufer, clocked in Ill. was another
3 yards in front of James Herbert
veteran representing the Granc
Street Boys Association of New
York, with Russell Owen of Ohio
State trailing in fourth and last
place.
Mitchell Runs Mile.
Earl Mitchell, Big Ten confer
ence's two-mile and cross country
champion from Indiana University
came out of third place on the last
lap to win the classic Wanamaker
Mile in 4:066.
Gil Dodds of the Boston A. A. set
2:C2.1 pace through the first half
and 1902 gait to the three quarter
pole with New York University S
Frank Dixon at his heels before
Mitchell surprised the crowd of
$4,000 by hitting the tape four yards
in front of Dodds.
The Boston divinity student, clock
ed IN 4:08.9, was no match for Mitch
ell in the final drive but he had
enough left to pull away from Dixon,
who, running his fastest mile, was
timed in 4:106.
After James Rafferty, of the New
York A. c. had paced the field
through the first two laps, Ensign
Walter Mehl of the Iowa Pre- e-Flight
School, took over. He held it for
one lap and then gave way to Dixon.
Meanwhile, Dodds and Mitchell were
biding their time some 10 yards off
the pace. With 61s laps to go, Dodds
jumped to the front with Dixon
breathing on his back and Mitchell
trailing by good II yards.
They ran In that order until
Mitchell jumped out like a sprinter
on the final lap, passed Dodds and
won going away
Dice Is Easy Winner.
cree Pico Nnfro no mo
making his first start of the year
after recovering from a pulled leg
tendon, had no trouble chalking up
his 57th straight victory in the
2-mile run. The human dynamo
from Missoula, Mont, pulled away
from Ollie Hunter of Notre Dame
two and one-half laps from home
and won by 60 yards in 9:02.2.
Hunter stayed with Rice for the
greater part of the journey and set
the pace for three laps late in the
race but once barrel-chested Greg
gave it the gun there was no keep
ing up with him.
George De George, New York A.
C., was third and Dave Williams of
Georgetown, fourth-both of them
far back.
Warmerdam Vaults Is. TX.
Cornelius Warmerdam, the Pied
mont (Calif.) schoclmaster, cleared
is feet in the pole vault for the
twenty seventh time in easily win
ming his speciality. The world record
holder cleared Is feet IL inches.
Three others-Jack De Field of
Minnesota, Richmond Morcom Of
New Hampshire and Warren Broe-
mel of Columbia-tied for second at
13 feet inches
Fred Sickinger, Manhattan Col
lege sophomore, STAYED off a great
last lap drive by David Matthews
of Michigan, to win the 880-yard
run.
After letting Joe Nowicki of Ford
ham set the pace for the first two
laps, Sickinger jumped to the front
and held the lead the remainder of
the way to win the event for the
second straight year. His time was
1:549, six-tenths of second faster
than last year. Matthews ran in
third place until the final lap, when
he stepped past Nowicki, but
couldn't catch the flying Manhattan
runner.
Ewell Repeats in 60.
Norwood Ewell, former Penn
State sprinter, now performing for
Camp Lee, Va, won the 60yard
dash for the second straight year
nosing out Harold Stickel, ex-Pitts-
burgh runner, in 6.2 seconds.
Charles Had, blond headed
Michigan Normal graduate, running
in the colors of the Army Air Force
beat of Bob Wright, Ohio States
Big Ten champion, in the 60
yard hurdles, with third going tc
T. Hardy Todd, jr,, of Virginia
Had was clocked in 73 seconds
one-tenth of a second off the Ameri-
can record he established in win.
ming a heat in the event last year
Relay results:
lyn 5Rorowski, Jones Campbell and Mac
DouelD second. Rhode Island State, third
Syracuse; fourth Williams, Time, 3.27 .
Meeshy NF 5sabc99 b csTo O{ SanGSa sssona
Manhattan, Time. 3:24s
mems school, Columbia University Pr,ck
ct wills Storli, jennings; second, Man
haitian Eeach Coast Guard, third. 323ati
Meade. Mo; fourth Camp Upton. Time
1893
ond. Cornell. third, Princeton. Time
SOC 9.