Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
IBanked-Track Racinq
Lures Stars 10 -Four
Week End Meets
BY the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 23.-The
banked-board phase Of an indoor
track season, which takes on added
importance this year because Of the
Olympic games, opens this week end
with no less than four meets at
tracing some of the Nations top
most spikesters to ovals in the East.
Having completed their early sea-
son warmups on the fiat surfaces
at various armory meets, nearly TOO
athletes will get their first crack at
the faster banked tracks tonight in
the annual Philadelphia Inquirer
games at this city's Convention Hall.
Tomorrow night, the spotlight
will swing to Boston, where an
other huge f1eld-duplicating the
Philadelphia entries in some in
stances-is scheduled to compete in
the Massachusetts, Knights of Co.
lumbus games at the Boston Garden.
At West Point, the United States
Military Academy will stage its fifth
annual West Point relays tomorrow
afternoon, and at night the Long
Island chapter Of the Knights Of
Columbus will hold ahe first edition
of meet designed as an annual
affair at New York's 104th Regiment
Armory.
Twenty events for men and three
for women comprise the program
for the Inquirer games here to-
night, with attractive fields listed to
start in the features.
Leslie MacMitchell Of the New
York Athletic Club will be shooting
for his third straight triumph in
the mile run against such cam
paigners as Gerry Karver Of Penn
State, national outdoor champion;
Browning Ross of villanova, winner
of The Washington Star mile in
4:137; Bill Hulse Of the New York
A. c., Sugar Bowl mile champ, and
Tarver Perkins of the Illinois A. G..
George Guida, national AAU 600
yard titlist from Villanova, heads
the field for the Charles w. Pad
dock 300, where Barney Ewell, ma
tional AAU outdoor 2o0-meter
champion, is expected to furnish his
principal opposition.
Ewell also is entered in the So
yard dash along with Eddie Conwell
of Jersey City, the national AAU
indoor sprint champ, and Tom
Carey OF the New York Pioneer
Club, former national titleholder,
among others.
Reggie Pearman of New York
University appears to be the man to
beat In the John Borican Memorial
1000 since Jerry Connolly OF Ford
ham, who whipped him last week in
the Metropolitan AAU meet, is pass
ing up the Philadelphia meet to run
In Boston.
Other favorites here include Har-
rison Dfllard of Baldwin Wallace,
holder of all the national indoor
and outdoor hurdles titles, In the
5O-yard hurdle event; Curtis Stone
Of Penn State, national AAU indoor
Smile champion, in the 2-mile, and
National AAU Indoor Champion
John Vislocky Of the New York A. G.
in the high Jump.
Several of the Inquirer performers
also are entered in the Boston K. OF
C. meet which will mark the first
appearance this season Of Americas
premier miller, Gil Dodds Of the Bos-
ton Athletic Association.
Both Hulse and Perkins are sched-
uled to start against Dodds, along
with Tommy Quinn of the New York
A. c., Bill Mack Of Michigan State
and Larry Ellis, New York Uni
versity freshman.
National champions who will be
in Boston to attempt the iron man
stunt Of running on successive
nights include Conwell in the So
yard dash, billiard in the 45-yard
hurdles and Guida in the 600.
Teams from more than 20 Eastern
colleges are entered in the West
Point meet, where they will COM
pete on the dirt floor and cinder
track inside the academy field
house.
The Long Island X. Of C. meet
has drawn more than dozen col
leges and clubs for its IS events, all
handicap affairs.