Evening star., 1953-01-19
Cappy and Two-Mi|e
Get Feature Billing
In Meet This Week

Charley Capozzoli of George
town is making the 2-mile race
the glamour event of indoor
track this year. His record-set-
ting performance at the Boston
Knights of Columbus meet Sat-
urday night and the promise of
more to come is taking the play
away from the big-name milers.
The 2-mile definitely will be
the feature race, and Cappy the
featured runner, in the Phila-
delphia Inquirer Games Friday
night in Philadelphia. The other
Georgetown men who raced Sat-
urday in BoSton-Joe LaPierre,
who was third in the mile, and
Carl Joyce, good second in the
1,000-will be running with the
relay team in the Inquirer meet.
The Georgetown distance star
got the recognition he deserved
when track writer's covering the
Boston meet voted unanimously
to award him the Bill Kenney
Memorial Award as the out
standing performer. The second
place vote went to the high
jumping pair, Ken Wiesner and
Arnond Betton, who tied at 6
feet, 8A inches, while third was
the Rev. Bob Richards, who won
the pole vault at Is feet, 8
inches.
Has Better Field.
With Cappy the headliner, the
two-mile has a better list of
runners this year than has the
mile. Promoters of the mile will
have to come up with something
to replace the duels between Fred
Wilt and Don Gehrmann. That
was a good thing for awhile, out
both may be past their peak and
Gehrmann, in particular, seems
to find it difficult to get in con-
dition.
What the mile needs is some
bright and fresh youngster to
come up and take the play
away from the two indoor stand
bys. Both Fred Dwyer of Villa
nova and La Pierre of George
town are usually up among the
leaders, but they aren't threat
ening any records. The Swedish
Olympian. Ingvar Ericsson, is a
new face to American track
fans, and he might supply the
needed spark. The Swede fin
iShed only six yards behind Wilt
in his first trip around the
boards Saturday night, and with
a little more experience might
be the man to make the mile
the No. l indoor feature again.
Fastest Time by Collegian.
The 2-mile is different. Capoz-
zoli gave an indication of what
he could do when he beat
Browning Ross in The Star
Games January 10 and he really
cut loose in Boston. His 1885,
was the fastest ever run by a
college undergraduate. Frank
Sevigne, the Georgetown coach,
thinks he'll break Wits indoor
record of 8:50.7 before the season
is over.
Cappy ran away from Horace
Ashenfelter, Olympic steeple-
chase champion. during the last
few laps, but it must be ad-
mitted that the Georgetown man
probably was in better condition.
After all, he's been training
since last fall for the cross
country season, during which he
broke both the IC-4A and NCAA
records. Ashenfelter is going to
be in better shape soon and so
will the others.
But the little Georgetown
man gets everything possible out
of what he has and may be the
best indoor distance runner of
them all. AS Brutus Hamilton,
the Olympic 'track coach, said
while holding Cappy up as typ
ical of the American team: "He
comes as close to getting every
thing out of his physical poten-
tialities as any runner I've ever
SEEN"
Wilt probably won't come up
to the two-mile race from the
mile, although the two-mile is
his best distance, because the
(See CAPOZZOLI, Page A-16)