Evening star., 1950-05-14
Howard Of Sho' men
Leads All Scorers;
A. u. Finishes Fifth


won the Mason Dixon Conference
track championship ut Catholic
University yesterday. The Ches-
tertown team scored 631a points,
far ahead Of its closest rivals,
Bridgewater, which was second
with 35A.
Catholic University preserved
its record Of never having finished
lower than third in is years of
Conference competition, by slip
ping into third place with 2512
points to Randolph Macon's %.
American University was nth
with 18.
Ken Howard, Washington Col
lege speedster, was high scorer
with IA points. winning both the
220-yard dash and the broad Jump
and finishing second in the 100.
In the century. Howard ran up
against Jim Ferguson, American
UnivreSity's undefeated sprinter.
Howard had run a 81 hundred
this year and was favored. How
ever. Ferguson withstood his
stretch drive to win in :10.2. The
slow time was due to a bad start
by the sprinters.
johnson Cracks Two.
Russ johnson, Catholic U. high
jumper, broke both the meet and
stadium records with 6-foot-3-
inch Jump. The meet record was
6 feet u inch, while the stadium
high mark was 6-212. The C. U.
star set the old meet record in
l948 with George Balas of Hamp-
den Sydney,
Merle Grouse Of Bridgewater
pulled an iron-man stunt, win
ming both the mile and two-mile
runs. In the mile, Grouse ran Sec
ond to Bruce Davenport until the
final turn when he pulled out in
front to win going away.
In the two-mile, the Bridgewater
star took the lead at the halfway
mark and pulled out to win by
Is yards.
Acton Wins Both Hurdles.
John Acton, Randolph Macon,
took both hurdle events, running
the 220 lows in record breaking
time. Acton had hung up a new
meet mark of 0:15.2 in the highs
Friday and yesterday posted
0:25.5 time for the lows. His 220
hurdle mark broke the old meet
record Of 0:26.1. set by Schuman
Of Washington College in 1948.
Salvatore Console Of Catholic
o., won the discus for the fourth
straight year, a feat never done
before in MaSon-Dixon competi-
tion. Ed Moffat Of A. u, finished
undefeated for the year by win
ming the shot-put with a 43-foot-
9-inch toss. Console was three
feet behind his 1948 record hold
ing toss with a throw of 1913 feet,
inches.
One Of the closest races of the
day was the $50, won by Larry
Brandenburg, Washington Col
lege. He beat Dan Doyle, Catholic
U. half-miler, by less than a yard.
Doyle ran his best race of the year
as the two runners ran neck and
neck for so yards to the tape.
Washington College finished
one-two-three in the 440-yard
dash. Larry Bradenburg, Jim
Twilley, and Milton Hubbard fin
ished in that order, outdistancing
the field by ten yards. The three
were separated by no more than a
yard as they hit the tape.
Three False Starts.
In hte 220, there were three
false starts bfeore the sprinters
could get of. Howard won, with
team-mate Mickey Hubbard, a
close second.
Ray De Costa, Roanoke College,
pole vaulted IL feet to win.
Washington Colleg's crack mile
team easily won the relay. Abe
Mendenhall, Howard, Twilley and
Brandenburg ran it in 3:27.4, two
seconds off the meet record.
Hubbard and Howard of Wash
ington finished one-tWo in the
broad jump, the last event of the
day. The distance was 81 feet,
5l2 inches.
Totals of the teams finishing be-
hind the first five were Loyola,
161a; Roanoke. 16; Lynchburg,
612; Gallaudet, 51a; Baltimore
University, 0; Mount st. Mary's, 0;
and Towson State Teachers Col
lege. 0.