Evening star., 1954-05-30
Pollard Captures 100
But Breaks Down in
Quest Of 22O Crown
By the Assoeinied Prasa


NEW YORK, May 29.-Penn
State won the team title in the
1C-4A track and field champion
ships today for the first time
since 1912 despite the fact Art
Pollard broke down trying to
score double victories in the 100
and 220-yard dashes.
Pollard, Penn States present
day version of Barney Ewell, tied
the meet record with 9.6 seconds
in the 100. but pulled a muscle in
his left leg at the start Of the
220 semifinals.
In addition to Pollard's fine
9.6 in the 100, meet records were
broken by Arnold Sowell of Pitts
burgh with sparkling 1903 in
the half-mile, by Marty Engel Of
N.Y.U. with 1873 feet in the ham,
mer throw, and by Manhattan
with 3:12.1 in the mile relay.
Penn State finished operations
with 32R points, compared to
runner-up Manhattan'S 25h.
Yale, hurt badly by poor show
ing in the qualifying heats, was
third with %.
SOwell's Upset Is Feature.
Sowell's upset victory over
Tom Courtney of Fordham in
the $50 was the feature of the
two-day meet. held at Randall's |
Island. Courtney had been un-
beaten this year until he hooked
UP with Sowell, youngster who
didn't come into his own until |
this year. The Fordham ace was
shooting for John Woodruff'S
15-year-old meet record Of 1872.
And break it, he did, crossing |
the finish in 1:50.5. Only Sowell
got home ahead of him by about
a yard and a half.
The two fought each other all |
the way, but each time Court
ney would make his bid, Sowell
managed to fight him off.
Pollard's record-tying 9.6 sec
onds in the 100 was his second
such performance in two days.
He also had matched the figure
in Fridays heats. He had to
pull up lame in the 220 about 100
yards after the start. Henry
Thresher of Yale, second to Pol
lard. in the 100, went on to win
In 20.7 seconds.
Joel Shankle, a one-man gang
from Duke. won the 120-yard
high hurdles in 14.3 seconds,
Lou Jones of Manhattan ran a
speedy 47.3 seconds quarter-mile
to take that one and Dick Ollen
of Northeastern was the victor in
the mile in 4:15.4. ,a,@l
Ed Kirk of Georgetown was
placed third in the mile on the
basis of comparative times, hav-
ing finished in 4:16.6 while Sec
ond to Terry Foley of Fordham
in another section. Foley's time
was 4:15.8 for second in the
finals.
HOyas' Phaging Eighth.
Shankle placed third in the
broad jump with % feet, 2A
inches, an event won by John
Bennett of Marquette with "a
feet. 71a inches. Bennett was the
meets high scorer with nine
piintS, as he tied Frank Gaffney
of Manhattan for first in the
hgih jump at 6 feet, 434 inches.
Frank Pfaging of Georgetown
came in eighth in the 2-mile,
with Bob Hollen of Penn State
the winner in 9:22.1.
Big Rosey Grier, who tossed
weights like ping-pong balls, was
a big scorer for the Penn Staters,
although his only victory was in
the shot put.
Grier. a 240-pound tackle on
Penn States football team, got \
off heave of So feet, 10a inches
in the shot put. more than two
feet better than AL Thompson
of Columbia, the runnerup. He
also hauled down a second in
the discus and a sixth in the
javelin.
Stew Thomson of Yale, try
ing to atone for his failure to
qualify for the hammer throw,
won the discus with a 165-foot
AL Cantello of LaSalle, the
defending champion, won the
javelin with a toss of 205 feet
12 inch.
Engel, the American champion
whose record is 1875 feet, AZ
inches, erased the oldest record
on the IC-AA bookshelf feet,
6l2 inches in the hammer throw
set back in 1923 by Fred Tootell,