Evening star., 1952-01-06
Nation S Top Vau|fers,
Fine High Jump Field
Al ArmoIy Saturday

T Ttutvt SusuIuuY
Don Gehrmann, the best runner
on the boards last winter, will be
facing one of his toughest fields
when he runs the mile in the
fifth annual Star Games at the
Armory Saturday night-a bigger
and better event this year.
From 7:30 pm. when the starter
sends the field away in the first
of q events until 11:10, post time
for the final relay, the eight lap
armory track. one of the longest
ovals in the country, will reSound
with the running feet of the best
athletes this side of the Missis-
sippi.
The meet will have a dash of
Olympic flavor as most of the con-
testants have an eye on team
berths and are just beginning the
long grind leading to the trials.
Rated Slight Edge.
In the mile Gehrmann is given
only slight edge over six rivals.
Don mopped up last year, begin
ming with the Junior Chamber of
Commerce Mile in The Star
games. He won at Philadelphia,
captured the famed Wanamaker
Mile, and won again at Madison
Square Garden in the Baxter Mile.
He scored in the Chicago relays,
won easily at Buffalo, and took
the Lou Zamperini Mile, an added
attraction in the IC-4A games.
His time of 4:07.5 in the Wana-
maker, in which he defeated Fred
Wilt by seven yards, was the
best of the winter.
Fred Dwyer of Villanova and
Warren Dreutzler, former Michi-
gan State runner now in the Army
are expected to give Gehrmann
the most trouble. Dwyer is the
1C-4A indoor and outdoor cham
pion while Dreutzler finished Sec
ond to Denis JohanSon's meet rec
ord-breaking time of 1892 in the
Sugar Bowl 1,500-meters run a
week ago. There was some spec
ulation that distance (120 yards
less than a mile) was too short
for the long -striding soldier who
last year ran the fastest outdoor
mile in the United States, 4:08.
Four other promising young
sters are entered and with any
racing luck could spring a major
upset. The proverbial dark horse
will be Bill Ashenfelter of Penn
State, who confounded the experts
by beating his brother. Horace,
and Fred Wilt of the New York
A.C. in the National AAU cross
country championship recently.
Bobby Jones Entered.
Normally two-miler, Bill
turned in All and AIS mile runs
last winter, indicating that he's
right at home over the shorter
distance. Bobby Jones. former
Alexandria schoolboy and national
interscholastic star, will carry the
Quantico Marines colors in the
race, while Tyson Creamer Of
Maryland and Frank Efinger of
Yale also will be cunning for an
upset.
It is a hand picked group and
experts who remember last years
thriller, when Gehrmann nosed
out Ingvar Bengtsson in whirl-
wind finish, believe there is room
for an upset.
The lengthy program. however,
has been so we'll arranged that
the mile may not get the entire
spotlight. The pole vault, for ex-
ample, will bring together three
Vaulters who, at one time or an
pther, have topped Is feet. The
Rev. Bob Richards, recently
awarded the Sullivan Trophy as
the outstanding amateur athlete
Of 1851, heads the field. An out
standing Olympic prospect, Rich
ards hung up Sugar Bowl record
Of IA feet 8 inches last week, but
was only four inches above Don
Laz, former Illinois star, and Don
Cooper of Nebraska, who will
sompete against him again Sat-
arday.
Acacia Run Another Feature.
The Acacia two-mile run, fea-
turing Georgetown's Charlie Cap
pzzoli, John Joe Barry. the Irish
champion; Bob Brown. Navy
Olympic hopeful from Arkansas;
Browning Ross and Horace Ash
snfelter, is another race that
should leave the fans hanging on
10 their seats. The handsome
Acacia Bowl is up for retirement
his time. 1t goes to a two-time
winner of the event, or if there Isl
none, to the man with the fastest
time over a three-year period.
Fred Wilt, who made the fastest
time In his victory several winters
ago, is unable to compete, but
Barry has a leg on the trophy
and Capozzoli is expected to be
at his best for the race. The
GEORGETOWN aces only chance is
to beat Wits time of 9:09 and
Ii he does it will be a memorable
event in Washington track history.
The sprint series, a test of three
races at 10, 80 and 100 yards, is
another event of major interest.
Speedy Art Bragg of Morgan
State heads the field, but with
Herbert "Piney" Fields of Duke,
Craig Weisman of Cornell, Howard
Bugbee, Stanford ace now with
the Navy Olympic squad, and
several others ready to give him
d run for the laurels, Bragg will
have to show his best.
Top High Jump Field Entered.
The best high jump field ever
assembled here, featuring former
National Champion Jack Razetto
of the Navy Olympic squad, who
has hoisted himself over the bar
at 6-feet-8, is expected to create
some excitement during the even
ing. Tom DeLuglio of Brown and