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to edge Harold McDowall Of the
Rams.
Card Relay Sets Record.
Catholic University,s Mason
Dixon Conference sprint medley re-
lay quartet broke the first record
Of the night when Jim zuppa, the
conference 880-yard champion and
captain ELECT Of the Cardinals track
team, gained the lead for his team
on the first lap Of the four-lap $50
and won by 80 yards over Earl CHM,
running the anchor for defending
champion Johns Hopkins. The C. U.
time of 3:43.14 broke Hopkins rec
ord of 3:45.9.
Another brilliant $50 performance
by Frisby Evell of La Sale College
helped the Explorers to the one-mile
AAU open handicap sprint medley
relay title over Lincoln High School
Of Jersey City, N. ]. The time of
1887 was excellent. Evell edged
Eugene Thomas at the tape.
Big Roger Neighborgal Of Duke
University, the Southern Conference
880-titlist, started his distance last
ip the field but he passed four rivals
and was not more than 20 yards
behind Evell at the finish as he
made up almost 100 yards. La Sale
started with a 2O-yard handicap
and Lincoln 80, with Duke running
from scratch.
Bison Wins 2-Mile Open.
James Bruce Of Howard Univer-
sity received a 40-yard handicap in
the two-mile open AAU Handicap
and all the others ever saw of him
was his back. Bruce maintained a
steady pace all the way, running
without a sign of emotion, and when
the crowd let out a yell for Ham
McGill's squirt near the end, Bruce
went into a sprint of his own and
was home easily in 1914.
McGill's sprint earned him second
place over Thurlow Brown of Nor
gan State College at the tape. The
first three hardly were challenged
at any time by the remainder of
the field and several dropped out.
: North Carolina Colleges Charles
White, who barely qualified for the
final of the 1O0-yard Open AAU
Handicap when he finished third
in the second heat, came back to
win the final with his second go
performance of the evening. His
first was in the first heat.
White was a step ahead of Clar-
ence Turner of Virginia Union, who
won both heats but was passed by
White in the final after an early
burst Of speed. White and Turner
both started with two-yard handi-
caps. George MCGOWAN, running
unattached from Washington. WIS
third, With "a 4-yard handicap
Whites time of 90 actually was
for 98 yards.
A former national schoolboy $50
champion, Patrick O'Brien, jr.,. OF
Georgetown University. set a local
record in the 880-yard Open AAU
Handicap when he started from
6Cl dtC1l dllu WILL III 4.Ot.o SOluul-
bias Rolandelli was second and
Chris Barellan of the Baltimore
Olympic Club third, aided by 12-
yard handicap.
The Touchdown Club 1,000-yard
invitation was Fordham's Jerome
Connolly's all the way over the
Big Nine champion. Herb Barton of
Michigan and David Smith of
Georgetown in the local record time
Of 2:11.7.
Bison Wins Close One.
The District AAU 600-yard cham
pionship went to William Collins
of Howard who passed James Barico
on the curve before the finish and
won in 1:14.8. Fort Belvoir's James
Kountz was ahead most Of the way
but he found his pace too fast and
dropped back, Collins ran steadily
in third until he blasted through
to win a race that was not decided
until the last few feet.
Georgetown scored its second VIC
tory of the evening when Bill
Mitchell edged Donald Leeke Of
North Carolina College and Marcio
Salvanelli of Maryland in 8.8 after
Mitchell and Karl Rhulbach