Evening star., 1947-12-29
New York Ace, Victor
In Sugar Bowl, Faces
Tough Rivals Here
SpseIel Dispatch 10 The Stur

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. eff Bill
Hulse of the New York A. c. main
tains the pace in next Saturdays
Evening Star track meet in Wash
ington that he hit here yesterday
In winning the Sugar Bowl meets
1900 meter run, Washington fans
may be treated to a AIS indoor
mile, or better.
Hulse, the former New York Uni
versity distance runner who holds
the American outdoor mile mark Of
4:56, broke the Sugar Bowl 1,500-
meter mark set by Archie San
Romani of Kansas in 1910 by 81
seconds in beating Penn States
Gerald Karver. national champion
and an old nemesis, to the tape.
Hulse will run in the indoor mile
in Washington's huge National
Guard Armory, race that Is 120
yards longer than the distance he
ran yesterday, but his remarkable
time for the early season competi-
ton left little doubt that he IS set
for his speciality.
Twomey Finishes Fourth.
Hulse's competition In the hand
picked seven man field yesterday
included one Of his opponents in
The Star games, John Twomey Of
Illinois, who finished fourth.
Twomey led with a 64-second first
lap, but Hulse, Karver and Tommy
Quinn of the New York A. c. passed
him after he set the pace.
Browning Ross Of Villanova, who
finished in the 3,000-meter steeple-
chase in the Sugar Bowl meet, will
drop down to his favorite distance
in The Star games, the mile. Ross,
who was topped by Forest Efaw OF
saltwater, Oklas and Billy Overton
of Auburn yesterday, has run the
mile in 4:116, but tried the longer
distance here.
Other participants here yesterday
who will head for Washington in
cluded Bill Mitchell of Georgetown,
who ran third in the 110-meter high
hurdles to Ross Nichols of Okla
homa A. and NJ, who won in the
record breaking time of AS, and
Dick Maxwell of Ohio State. Mitch
ell, q former National Junior. IC4A
Invitation and Philadelphia In
quirer meet champion, will run the
70-yard high hurdles in Washing
ton.
Miller Runs Third.
Jimmy Miller of North Carolina,
Southern Conference 2-mile cham
pion, who will run the 1000 in The
Star games. was third in the 5000
meter run here to Jerry Thompson
of Texas and Curtis Stone of Penn
State, with Thompson's 1854 new
Sugar Bowl record.
Figuring Hulse's record run yes
terday on the basis of mile, it
would be about 4:12 outdoor mile
and Ais indoor without spikes,
which will be the condition preva-
lent in The Star meet, Washing
tons biggest In more than decade
The fastest indoor mile ever run
in Washington was a Ais by Gil
Dodds in the Catholic University
games at Riverside Stadium in 1912.
but that was over a 12-lap track
and Hulse will be running over a
220 track of only laps. The fewer
laps will make for faster time.
Rugged Competition.
Hulse, serious about winning an
Olympic berth, will meet rugged
competition in Washington. In ad-
dition to Twomey and Ross there
will be Jack Milne of North Caro-
lima, the national collegiate cross
country champion and Southern
Conference mile winner; Nick
Smusyn of Navy, who has run a
4:19 mile; George Troxel of Virginia,
the State two-mile record holder,
and William Berger of Columbia,
who also has run a 4:19 mile. The
event will be the Junior Board of
Trade Invitation.
Hulse was satisfied with the fourth
spot as TWomey, Karver and Quinn
alternated in the lead here yester-
day and the winner did not take
the lead until he sprinted ahead
only 20 yards from the tape. Hulse
continued on the outside to edge
Karver by a slim two-yard margin.
In the 3,O00-meter steeplechase,
one of the most arduous races in
any track meet, Ross barely lost
second place to Overton. but both
trailed Efaw by about IS yards. The
winners time was 9:24O.
Hulse will remain here for the
Alabama-Texa football game on
New Year Day and will drive to
Washington with several perform
ers slated to compete in The Star
games, first stop on the indoor meet
schedule.
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