Evening star., 1955-02-27
Manhattan Dethrones
Yale 10 Take Back
Team Championship
BY The Associated Press

first and a second but packed in
q half-dozen thirds to win back
the IC-4A track and field cham
pionship tonight in Madison
Square Garden.
The Jaspers thus dethroned
Yale, which had snapped a three
year Manhattan streak last year.
The breaking Of 30-year-old
record and Alex Breckenridge's
close victory in the mile run
were features of the meet.
Syracuse University's 2-mile
.relay team was clocked in 7:04.9
NJ i cheat to erase the former
record of 7:41.6 set by George
town in 1925. Ed Swinburne. a
member of that Hoya team Of
three decades ago, was judge
:,at the finish.
The Syracuse foursome Of Bob
Milner. Les Vielbig, Steve Arm
strong and Don Shupe then took
the final in the much slower
time of 7:491.
1900 Attend Meet.
A crowd of $500 was on hand
for the big meet which attracted
671 athletes and which didn't
produce the team winner until
the final event, the two-mile
relay. Manhattan took third and
8 points in that event for total
of 81 points to clinch the victory.
Villanova was second with 221a
points and Penn State took
third with 10.
Georgetown University did not
produce a winner tonight. It's
best; showing was a second to
Villanova in the freshman med
ley race over 17s miles.
Ed Kirk. who won his heat in
the second fastest time Of the
afternoon, finished fourth in the
mile. Breckenridge. the Scottish
champion now attending Villa
nova, just beat out his team
mate, John Kopil. in 4:19.9.
The only other abbreviated
bouts besides the Greenberg-
Essaye fracas came at the start
of the program. Georgetown's
Frank Sheehan calmly waited
for featherweight Bill Mcdonald
to slow down and then decked
him with a right uppercut.
Coach Eddie LaFond signaled
Reynolds to stop it at 1870 of
the first round.
C. U. squared things right
away when Lefty Mike Fahey
stunned Quinton Vaughan with
q right-hand shot in the second
round of the 132-pound fight
and followed up for a knock
down. Reynolds stopped this
one himself at 1:20 of the sec
ond. Fahey had floored Vaughan
twice in a bloody first round.
- Kirk held the lead with six
slaps to go, lost it and then went
all out to catch the leaders with
Ia laps left, but he did not
have it. William st. Clair of
Manhattan was third and John
Rosenbaum of Cornell fifth.
+. Kirk, who first learned to run
at st. Benedict's Prep in New
sJersey, was clocked in 1925 in
his heat. Breckenridge's heat ]
time was 1904.
Robert Lippmeier and Frank
Pflaeing, Georgetown's hopes in
: the two-mile run. finished fifth
sand sixth, respectively. George
TERRY of Boston University was
the winner.
n Arnold Sowell. the gangling
Fyoungster from Pitt who last
week equalled the world indoor
record for the 1000 t2:08.2)
loafed to victory in his speciality
in 2:l4.7. George Peyton of the
Hoyas was fifth.
; Charlie Pratt of Manhattan,
who disappointed the Jaspers by
being shut out in the broad jump,
made amends by winning the
60-yard hurdles in IA, beating
out Rod Perry of Penn State by
inches.
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8 inches; .4,-tie between Robert Gard
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feet,sa ,seia inches; bH is,Ss S5-DaVid Patton. Army,
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tenburg. Harvard. Time O:O7.4
TTo-mile run: 1-George Terry, Bos-
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Two-mile relay: l-Syracuse tRobert
Miner, Les Vielbis. Steve Armstrong,
Don shupel; Yale: 3-Manhattan:
1Pennsyivania; 5-Harvard, Time
5:4o,a breaking the former record OF
"a 8 set by Georgetown, 1925).
l,Q00-yard run: ARNOLD SoWell,
Ptttsbprgh; Michael Browne, Cornell;
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One-mile run ALEX Breckenridge,
yillanova; s-John Kopii. villanova: a.
William st. Clair. Manhattan; 4-Ed
Kirk. Georgetown; 5--John Rosenbaum,
600-yard run: 1--charies jenkins,
Villanoya: 2-Thomas Cortney, Ford
ham: 3-Robert English, Manhattan;
e--Andrew Dadagian, oCrnell: 5-Denis
Cato, NYu. 1:11,2.
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