Evening star., 1954-01-17
Truck and Ferguson
Among Late Entrants;
Records Threatened
By Rod Thomos

sinki. plus many athletes who
rose to prominence after the
world meet, will head an all-star
cast in The Star Games Satur-
day night at the Armory. Action
will start at o'clock.
Not among the Olympians. but
certain to command much at
tention, are two Of the latest to
join the list Of runners. Rich
Ferguson. two-miler from Iowa
University, and Len Truck. for
mer Ohio State miller.
Making his first appearance
in this seventh annual meet will
be Lindy Remigino, formerly Of
Manhattan College, who won the
Olympic 100 meters.
Trying for a meet record in
the pole vault will be the Rev.
Bob Richards, who triumphed at
HelSinki.
Horace AShenfelter, the Olym-
pic 3,000-meter SteeplechaSe
champion, will attempt to lower
his own two-mile record for The
Star Games.
Champion On Spot.
The various fields are so
loaded with class, that Howard
P. Bailey. chairman, and Dorsey
j. Griffith, director of the meet,
say they are unable to single
out any event as the. top attrac-
ton. Defending champions all
are on the spot and q batch Of
meet records are threatened.
A great duel is expected be-
tween Remigino and Art Bragg,
Morgan State College product,
who cleaned up last year in the
Exchange Club Invitation Sprint
Series. Bragg is co-holder of
Star Games records for 10, 80
and 100 yards.
But neither Remigino nor
Bragg has a pronounced edge
over others in the sprintS. They
include Thane Baker, ex-KanSaS
Slater who has run the century
in 9.4 seconds; Michael Agostini.
sprint champion of Trinidad who
is headed for Villanova; Ken
Kave of Morgan State, who at
tended Cardozo High (he's been
clocked in 9.5 for the 1000. and
Bob Keegan of Seton Hall.
Baker set a meet record in win
ming the Sugar Bowl 440. Kee-
gan was runnerup to Bragg in
all three sprints last year.
Upset Cappy in MEGA.
Ferguson is the NCAA two
mile champion and the favorite
he upset for the title last sum-
mer was none other than Charley
Capozzoli, ex-Georgetown star,
who will be the defending title
holder in the Acacia Invitation
Two Mile Run Saturday night.
Ferguson and Capozzoli will
have formidable rivals in Johnny
Kelley Of Boston University: the
IC-4A champion Browning Ross,
ex-Villanova runner who holds
the meet record for one mile at
4:13.7; set in 1913: Bob Holland.
Penn State speedster and. far
from least. Horace AShenfelter.
who in 1852 established The Star
Games two-mile record of 9:05
but did not defend his laurels
last year.
Truck is a distinct threat to
shatter Ross mile mark. He was
a sensation in the indoor meets
last year. with successive per-
formances of 4:O78. 4:11.8 and
4:07.8 (repeated). Arraye d
against him will be Fred Wilt
and Bill Ashenfelter, both FBI
agents and winners of many i'm
portant races: Alex Breckenridge
of Villanova, Scottish mile
champion: Sture Landqvist,
Swedish star now attending
Oklahoma A6EM. and Bill Smith
of Boston u, rated a darkhorse
on the strength of recent work.
outs.
Bright Heads 1000.
IN the strength of his record
performance in the recent Metro
politan New York AAU cham
pionships, Harry Bright is rated
at the top of an impressive list
in the Touchdown Club 1000.
Bright, a former Cardozo High
and Morgan State student now
with the Pioneer A. C. of New
York, won the Metropolitan 1000
in 2 minutes 1874 seconds which
erased the old record of 2:14.2
held jointly by illustrious Gene
Venzke and Jerome Connolly,
former Fordham runner who
holds The Star Games record Of
2:11.7 set in 1943.
George Lynch OF Michigan,
who won the race last year, will
be an underdog. Notable among
his challengers besides Bright,
are Henry Cryer. 'ex-Illini now
at Camp Pickett, who was nosed
out by Nal Whitfield in '53 for
the National AAU half-mile title;
Carl Joyce, ex-Hoya ace, now in
the Marine Corps; Paul Rauden-
bush of Penn, IC-4A champion,
and Mike Stanley of Yale, 1C-4A
outdoor half-mile titleholder.
j. w. Mashburn of Oklahoma
University, who ran the fastest
outdoor 440 in the country last
year. 46.8, heads the field in
The Evening Star 600. with John
Gaffney of Villanova returning
to defend the title.
The 7O-yard high hurdles will
present a variety of itle-holders.
Wallace Monahan of Pitt is the
IC-4A champion. Boyd Carr Of
the Air Force is the Mason
Dixon record-holder and Peter
Fedak, Georgetown freshman.
won the New Jersey high school
title in s,53.
Richards. Laz Meet Again.