Evening star., 1948-01-03
Brilliant Field Completes in Star Games Tonight
Program Of Il Events
To Start al 8 Pm.
|At New Arrnory
Continued From First pageo


former IC-4A champion, Jim Petit
of Navy ex-IC-4A 10o-yard outdoo
titlist, Joseph Ciancibella Of Man.
haitian is the current 100 and 22l
IC-4A outdoor champion ant
Charles Jupiter Of Howard, and lik.
McKenley a native Of Jamaica, is Z
former CIAA champion at the 100
Close Finishes Expected.
Mathis, as the national titlist, 4
In a deserving role Of favorite, bui
a fair-sized blanket likely will cove,
all six at the finish Of each race, 4
series that promises to steal the
show.
The New York Athletic Club
sending its star distance runner
Bill Hulse, American record holde1
for the fastest outdoor mile, for tn.
Junior Board of Trade" Invitation
mile. Hulse zoomed into the ia.
vorite's role in this event when h,
turned in a spectacular 1855 effort
in winning the Sugar Bowl $500.
meter run last Sunday in New
Orleans.
On a new board track that will
require only eight laps to the mile
due to the tremendous length o.
the Armory, Hulse is a threat for {
4:12 mile tonight, which would bt
tremendous running for this early
lin the season. And Hulse, like al
contestants, will be running ir
rubber -soled shoes instead of spikes
No Romp for Hulse.
The mile will not be q romp foa
Hulse, however. His opponents will
include John Twomey Of Illinois
who defeated Hulse in the national
AAU senior mile last year; Jack
Milne Of the University Of North
Carolina, the present national in
tercollegiate cross-country titlist
and Browning Ross Of Vi1lanova
who has run the mile in 4:116.
In the longest race of the night,
the 2-mile open AAU handicap, a
pair of University Of North Caro-
lima students who tied for the
Southern Conference 2-mile title
last year, Sam McGill and James
Miller, will battle 1t out again.
Along with Thurlow Brown Of Nor
gan State and George Thompson of
Villanova they will be the only
scratch men in the field. A threat
in this event will be the Districts
champion distance runner, Johnny
Ltiss, 32-year-old commercial ar
tist, who will receive a 20-yard han
dicap.
In scheduling the events, Griffith
made sure that every track fan
would remain for the finale, which
will be the featured relay event, the
one-mile Capital Relay matching
Navy, Fordham, Brown and Michi-
gan in that order from the pole.
An added starter to the two-mile
relay will be Villanova, matched
against Columbia, Maryland and
Illinois. The leadoff man for VII
lanova will be one Of Georgetown's
top distance men Of pre-war years,
Dave Williams, a transfer student.
Six relays are scheduled In all.
Local Touch in Hurdles Event.
The 70-yard high hurdles will
have a local touch, with Ray Leeth
of Brown and Mario Salvanelli of
Maryland, formerly of Western and
Roosevelt, respectively, renewing
their rivalry in field that includes
Georgetown's Billy Mitchell, for
mer IC-4A indoor meet winner and
hurdle champion of the Philadel-
phia Inquirer meet two years ago.
Conference champions will clash
in the Touchdown Club" 1000
yard Invitation when Hert Barton,
Big Nine titlist from Michigan,
meets field including Roger Neigh
borgall, the Southern Conference
champion from Duke. Both will
have to reckon with Ed Walsh, the
IC-4A champion of last year.
Thirty colleges and universities,
the New York A. c., Washington
Track and Field Club, Quantico Ma
rines and number Of high schools
will be represented while some
chose to run unattached.
Howard P. Bailey, general chair
man of The Evening Star games,
appointed j. Kip Edwards as ref
cree, w. c. Yank) Robbins as
starter and E. Joseph Aronoff, an
nouncer. The meet is sanctioned by
the AAU.