Evening star., 1952-04-26
Gehrmann and Wilt
May Get Competition
In Penn Relays Mile
by the Associoted Press

PHILADELPHIA, April 26.-
Don Gehrmann and his FBI
shadow, Fred Wilt, play another
chapter in their serial track
rivalry today. but if they're not
careful both may play a support
ing role in the mile feature of
the 58th annual Penn Relays.
Both 1t. Warren Dreutzler, for
mer Michigan State star now sta
toned at Camp Lee, Va, and
Denis Johansson, the 1,500-meter
champion Of Finland, are in the
field and quite capable of show
ing their heels to Gehrmann and
Wilt.
(The Penn relays will be tele-
vised in Washington over
WMAL-TV. channel Z, begin
ming at 2 pm. The program
will continue until 5 pm. with
half-hour intermission be-
tween $3.50 and 4 o'clock
If the driving rain that re-
tarded performances in yester-
days opening events of the track
and field carnival passes on as
the weatherman predicts, one of
this all-star field could break the
meet mark of 4:08.3 set last year
by England's Roger Bannister.
Michigan Seeks Relay Mark.
Michigan's big 10 distance run
ners, thwarted yesterday in an
effort to break their week-old
distance medley record Of 1868,
today are cunning for the 4-mile
relay meet mark. They have q
good chance of doing it if the
track is dried out.
Michigan's colorful medley quar-
tet Of Aaron Gordon, John Car
roll, John Ross and Don McEwen,
ran q creditable 10:18.1 in edging
Lockbourne Air Base Of Colum-
bus. Ohio. in the distance medley
run. The service team, on the
wings Of a great anchor leg by
Hobart Jones. comparatively un-
known trackman from Nebraska
trailed by only few yards at the
finish.
The race was q thrilling eli
max to a cold. rainy day that
started of on a sour note when
the favorite in the 400-meter
hurdles, Meredith Gourdine of
Cornell, was scratched because of
a pulled leg muscle. Albin Rauch
of Princeton, better known as a
quarter-miler, took the event in
53.3 seconds. He won by some
yards over Ed White Of Army.
Cadet Wins on Injured Ankle.
Dick Shea of Army recorded his
third straight Penn Relay victory
in the 2-mile run, despite an in
jured right ankle. The cadet in
jured his ankle when he stepped
out Of bed and slipped on q newly
waxed dormitory floor. But it
didn't seem to handicap him as
he turned on the speed in the final
lap to win handily over Penn
States Lamont Smith in 9:33.5.
Manhattan and Morgan State
are all set for some stirring do
ings today in the final 440 and
$50 yard relays. Manhattan. with
John O'Connell, Joe Schatzle.
Lindy Remigino and Bob Carly
racing in fine style. won its quail
flying 440-yard heat in 42.8, one
tenth Of a second faster than
Morgan State. But Morgan came
back to win the $50 heat over
Manhattan by inches. Both were
timed in 1921.
Syracuse, st. Johns Lockbourne
and Navy are in the 440. with
NYU, Columbia, Lockbourne and
Maryland in the $50.
Champions crowned yesterday
in addition to Rauch and Shea,
were Michigan's Roland Nilsson,
Swedish Olympic star, who
tossed the discus 100 feet, 11A
inches, and Princeton's relay team
In the heptagonal mile.
Army's Larry johnson qualified
to defend his 120-yard high hur-
die title against such challengers
as Van Bruner of Michigan, Jack
de Medicis of Lockbourne Air
Force and Pete McCreary of
Dartmouth. Defending Champion
Dick Coleman of Illinois is IA
vored to repeat in the pole vault.