Evening star., 1953-01-18
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Nine Minutes
LuPierre Runs Third
In Mile, Carl Joyce
Second in ! 900
By the Associated Press

BOSTON, Jan. 17.-Charlie
Capozzoli, Georgetown's smooth
striding distance star, ran a
beautifully paced race in the
knights of Columbus meet here
tonight, beating Horace Ashen-
felter, Olympic steeplechase
champion, by 40 yards in the
two-mile event and setting new
meet record of 1858. This COM
pareS favorably with Fred Wits
American indoor mark of 8:50.7.
Capozzoli thus becomes the
first college undergraduate ever
to run the distance under nine
minutes. Cappy, holder of the
National collegiate and IC-4A
titles, broke the meet record of
1904, set IL years ago by Greg
Rice formerly of Notre Dame.
The Georgetown runners VIC
tory was the No. l upset of
meet which attracted 12,191
fans to the Boston Garden and
was highlighted by excellent per-
formances from most of the big
name stars. The Rev. Bob
Richard cleared 14-feet-3 on his
first pole vault and then missed
15-feet-6 three times. Navy 1t.
Ken Weisner and Arnold Betton
OF Drake University both cleared
6-feet-8A in the high jump, then
missed in attempts to break the
worlds indoor record of 6-feet-
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La Pierre Third in Mile.
Wilt, the galloping FBI agent,
left his old nemesis, Don Gehr-
mann far behind as he won the
mile by six yards from the Swed-
ish star, Ingvar Ericsson, in
4:10.5. Joe LaPierre of George
town was just step behind the
Swede. who was making his
American debut, while Gehr-
mann was fourth, at least 20
yards behind the winner. 1t.
Warren Druetzler of Fort Lee,
Va, was fifth in the crack field.
Content to follow Ashenfelter's
pace until there was only 212
laps to go in the 22-lap race,
Capozzoli, a 22-year-old George
town senior from Flushing, Long
Island. brought the big crowd to
its feet as he sped away from the
Olympic steeplechase winner.
Another Olympian, Browning
Ross, the only other starter not
Tapped, was third. Turkeys Os-
man Cogul, making his first start
in this country was fourth and
Olympian Curt Stone was fifth.
Setting himself up as probably
the greatest collegiate distance
runner in indoor track history,
Capozzoli not only erased the
meet record but also came close
to the Boston Garden record cf
1884 set by Rice in 1912. Cap
py's best outdoor performance
was his American three-mile
record of 1858 in a post-olym-
pic race last summer.
Moving into the lead at the
start, Ashenfelter went past the
half-mile poles in 2:16, 1926
and 6:42.9. At the mile-and-a-
half mark, he looked as if he
had the race in the bag with a
30-yard lead and only 51a laps
to 60.
Cappy Moves Away.
Once he made his move with
three laps to go, Capozzoli
turned on the speed as he set
out after his illustrlous foe who
had won the event for the past
two years. It was Immediately
apparent that the Georgetown
ace was about to score his first
major victory on a banked track.
Ashenfelter could do nothing
about it as Cappy forged into
the lead and then ran away
as the crowd screamed.
Carl Joyce and La Pierre,
Georgetown's two other IC-4A
track champions, failed to win
in other feature events but both
made creditable showings. Joyce
was four yards back in the
Chevrus 1000 won by Villa
nova'S Fred Dwyer in the meet
record time of 2:12.1. La Pierre
was third in the K. of c. mile
(See BOSTON MEET, Page C-5)