Evening star., 1951-04-29
GU Team Wins, ,
Record Try Fails
In Penn Relays
Hoyo Lineup Altered;
Armstrong, Phelps
Tuke School Events
picture on Page B-2.)
By Merrell Whittlesey
Ssor Siaff Correspondent

Ilishman from Oxford, had Fred
Wilt and Don Gehrmann eating
ibis dust in the Benjamin Franklin
Mile today as he easily won the
feature event Of the Penn Relays
before an overcoated crowd oi
IS 900 in Franklin Field.
Bannister. rapidly gaining IA
voritism for the 1.500-meter title
in next years Olympics, ran q
Hast quarter Of 56.7 for a carnival
lrecord of 4:08.3 as he beat Wilt by
us yards and Gehrmann by Is
more for one of the latter's worst
defeats.
1t was this sensational finishing
kick, after a comparatively slow
first three-quarters, that enabled
the Englishman to cut 33s sec
ondS off the record of Alb,
Established by Glenn Cunningham
in 1894.
Georgetown University, in a
move designed by Coach Frank
Sevigne to win an extra title but
forego a meet record. won the
Itwo-mile relay with ease in nom
record time, then lost out in the
sprint medley relay with two
members of its original two-mile
team in the lineup.
| Use Stars in Medley.
1t was the first time in 10 tri-
umphant races that Georgetown's S
two-mile relay team has not
broken a meet record. With the
track soft and a stiff wind whip
ping the stadium. Sevigne pulled
Dave Boland and Joe Deady of
the tWe-mile team and sent thena
with the sprint medley relay. It
appeared the Hoyas would finish
second IN the latter event, but
IOeady pulled a leg muscle and had
to quit 80 yards from the finish.
Dick Saunders was the new
leadoff man on the Hoyas' two
mile relay and Tom Voorhees, the
sub anchor man. Saunders was
second to Jerry Grassi of Seton
Hall at the end of a half mile,
but Carl Joyce gained the lead
for the Hoyas on the second lap.
Joe La Pierre increased the mar
gin to so yards and Voorhees, pro-
tected that margin to win by so
yards in 7:46.2, compared with
Indiana's record TALL in 1914.
Georgetown won last year in
I7:48.3.
In the split times, La Pierre ran
his half-mile in 1:54.8, Joyce in
1855. Voorhees, in 1865 and
Saunders in 1888. With Boland
and Deadly running as expected.
the Hoyas probably would have
been within second of the record.
Second Title for Hoyas.
The title was Georgetown's Sec
ond Of the major championships,
as yesterday Boland, Deadly, Joyce
and La Pierre won the distance
medley title.
Boland was boxed at the start
lof the sprint medley champion
snip and was a poor fourth at the
end OF a quarter mile. Frank
Sowa passed two men, but the
hand-off to Vince Sino was not
perfect and the Hoyas lost a val
liable step or two there. With
$50 yards to go. Deadly gave it
all he had, but he obviously was
IN pain as he hit the last turn
and he quit as New York Uni
Iversity won in 3:24.8 over Prince
ton. Deadly had aggravated a
pulled leg muscle.
/ With almost no chance in the
mile relay and all of its men
tired, Georgetown did not place
a team in the concluding event.
In addition to Georgetown's
two major titles, the District Of
Columbia area had winners in
Howard in a class mile relay yes
terday, Cardozo in the high school
quarter-mile championship yes
terday. and Armstrong and Phelps
in scholastic class miles.
Navy had a titlist in Bob Alli-
son with a heave of 213 feet, So
inches in the javelin, which
topped Lloyd Smith of Franklin
1nd), and Gerald Holland of the
Mlddies. Navy was second in the
Glass B one-mile relay champion
ship where Bill Branson, running
the anchor, almost caught Dart
mouth, the winner, in 3:13.1.
Cornell Breaks Record.
The 89-event Penn carnival
closed on brilliant note when
Cornell set mile relay record
with a 3:13.1 in barely holding
of the defending champions from
Morgan State, who set a record
last year of 3:13.6.
Cornell won despite tremendous
anchor leg of 46.3 by Morgan
otate'S George Rhoden, the world
record holder for the 400 meters
Meredith Gourdine, James Lingel,
Charley Moor and Bob Mealey ran
Tor Cornell in that order.
Cornell and Manhattan matched
Georgetown in major relay titles
won, with the Jaspers taking The
quarter and half mile champion
ships and Cornell the mile and
shuttle hurdle relay. Penn State
won the four mile and New YORK
~. the sprint medley. Manhattan
also won the freshman mile and
was a close second to Penn State
in the four-mile.
The outstanding individual per-
former was Seton Halls Andy
Stanf1eld, who set a Penn Relays
record of rs feet inches in win
ming the broad Jump for the
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