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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-03-31
Beaverdamo Juniors
To Stage Class
Play Friday Night

"The Funhy Brats" is the title of
the Beaverdam Junior class play to
be presented in the Reaverdam high
school auditorium Friday evening at
8 o'clock. The play is under the direc-
ton of Miss Theda Nollmann.
The play is the story of Sylvia
Gresham, a beautiful widow who is
considering marriage to an old sweet
heart, Whaley McWhorter. Her two
youngest children the "brats", Dick
and Harriet, try everything in their
power to turn Whalsy against marry
ing their mother. The plot grows
very complicated VIII hen other members
of the family become implicated by
various means.
Those taking part in the cast are
Margaret Untsrbrink as Harriet
Gresham; Margie Van Meter, Aurora
Borealis Pike; Shirley Beemer, Sylvia
Gresham; Pete Hughes, Dick Gresh-
am; Emerson Bssinger, Tom Gresh-
am; Janet Amstutz,> Lauralee Lynde;
Jack Palte, Loren Gresham; Doris
Fett, Gwynette Gadwood; Shirley
Boop, Aunt Hette Higginbotham;
Ronald Moser, Whaley McWhorter;
Freeman Culver, Boogerface Boggs.
Stage manager is Junior Bushong.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-03-31

Proud can be Mr. Bunny this unusual Easter
which almost entirely paper Just plates paper
paper and laundry beadbng and for the
assortment of gummed holiday and it's
pie to make this Easter decoration.
And-yes did correctly the list of essentials it
said laundry bung It's certainly the home Laundry shelf isn't
anywhere nSar dull might Take this for
examp promises new and shining life to your wte and pastel
Sprngme world would expect provide glamorhs trimming for
and annad snarinov IN tb edoes f % creme narhr nr on
exquisite color like bit of bright Easter sky thru the
clouds
Lower Plate Cn strip thru entire fold of yo crepe Gather
paste il around edge of 81 plate Cut strip of Spring
2z" ia points Paste the points
4
Upper yellow crepe
6pate gathering pang center with circle
green crepe.
Midde Gut strip yellow
stretching and pastng Trim edge
21s" strip green crepe cut into points
upside plate
plate Brush edges of all rues with EGste Sunday B
green crepe ST
crepe; fold half times and "V out and
circle from ceter slip from boom paste at Brush
petals with Easter SUNDAY Btue.*
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Grandfather Read /.
FROM THE ISSUE OF MARCH 4,I191!

Sup't. C. A. Arganbright sold his
Cherry street property to Lee Main
for $4,000 and viii give possession in
April. The Arganbright family will
move to Lima.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. d. Goble celebrated
their 43 wedding anniversary on Mon
day. The couple have resided in
Bluffton for a third of century.
Schnegg Garage is exhibiting the
snappy new 1915 model Saxon auto
mobile.
Merchants and others have con-
tracted with A E. Temple to keep
the streets clean in the business
section.
Miss Jessie Murray entertained the
Stitcher's Club, Tuesday evening.
The Winkler and Roethlisberger
saw mill yard is filled with logs, indi-
cative of an extensive buiIdin g
program.
Millen Geiger, Riley Twp, teacher,
attended a convention at Cincinnati
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-03-31

Charles Montgomery and Miss Lenore
Stouffer recently surprised their
many friends. The couple are well
known young people IF Orange Twp.
On their way home in a closed
storm buggy, Will y. Harris and sons
Ray and Dwight met with an ac-
cident two miles, least of town. The
horse suddenly s shied at an approach
ing auto and upset the buggy. A con-
ductor on the Western Ohio noticed
the accident, stopped the interurban
and took Mr.. HarriS to Mt. Cory in
the car where he waA given medical
attention by a doctor.
Albert BURY who operates dray
at Pandora will mJye back to TIE
farm.
Edgar Renninger operates the
Yosemite" theatre on South Main
street in Mt. Cory.
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Former Mt. Cory
Woman Dies In Ind.

Funeral services were held Friday
in Findlay for Mrs. Lottie d. Fisher,
former Mt. Cory resident, who died in
Portland, Ind, nursing home We'd
nesday Of last week. DR.. George NJ.
Wilson, Kenton Methodist minister,
ofFiciated at the service with burial in
Clymer cemetery near Mt. Cory.
Born in Fairview, Pa, the daughter
of Luke and Sarah (Evats) Edwards,
she moved with her family to Mt.
Cory where she lived until her mar
riage to Fred Fishef. He died in
1882.
Survivors include Ia daughter, Mrs.
Harry (Beatrice) Mace, Mancos,
Colo, and brother, Wallace Ed
wards, Van Buren. Two brothers,
John Edwards and Harvey Edwards,
are dead.
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with his brother Eldon.
Albert Althans had a fright and
his horse too when scared by an auto
on his way to Col. Grove. The buggy
was upset into the ditch and you can
imagine what happened to a basket
of eggs he was taking to market.
The horse jumped the fence and ran
into Basinger's sale stable in town.
Miss Florence Garlinger, a popular
young lady took the oath as post
office clerk at Mount Cory.
A baby girl was welcomed into the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Mar
shall near Beaverdam.
Because Melville Murray brought a
lady friend from Findlay to spend
over Sunday with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Med Murray. his young
friends thought him to be married
and gave him an olafashioned belling.
The young couple have not tied the
knot yet but plan to do so in the
near future.
Irwin Long, who operated a rest
aurant in the Steiner block, bought
the picture show business in the same
block from Dickensheets and Son.
Glen Long is the new proprietor of
the business.
Samuel B. Davis, former Bluffton
newspaper editor, died at the Indiana
Soldiers Home at Lafayette, Ind.
Dec. %, 1914 aged "a years. Mr..
Davis with a Mr.. Clark came to
Bluffton in 1874 and purchased the
Bluffton Times, the first newspaper
published in Bluffton, started by G.
P. Bailey and operated by him for
about year. The new firm chang
ed the name of the paper, and called
it the Bluffton Standard. In the
spring of 1875 the citizens of Dun
kirk induced Mr.. Davis to move to
their community. He moved and took
with him his whole printing outfit.
In the fall of 1875 Mr.. N. w. Cum
ningham came here from Lima and
started the Bluffton News.
Announcing the date of their mar
riage, which took place last August,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-01

Spingarn had the best time of
the day when JAWS Crocker, Joe
Goffney, Davis Belle and Dennis
Robinson were clicked in 1908.
WI beat out Archbishop
Stepinac High of New York, with
st. Johns Prep of New York
taking second and Douglass of
Baltimore placing third. Ford
ham Prep of New York was sec
ond to Spingarn, while WASH
ington's Cardozo was third and
Chaminade of New York, fourth.
Dunbar's team of Jim Ham
mond. AL Guson, Vincent Queen
and Joe Mills won it's race in
3:3l8. Newport News of Vir-
ginia was second and Port Jeffer-
son IN. " third.
Cardozo also took third in one
OF the other championship"
events, the two-mile relay, won
by st. Johns Prep of New York
in the meet record time of 8:09.9.
Ronald Colino, Ed Goehring,
Tom Cawley and Frank Treutlein
clipped two seconds off a IA
year record set by Northeast
Philadelphia High. st. Francis
Prep of New York was second
and the Cardozo team of Charles
Saunders, Nat Austen, Lucas and
Mclaughlin was third ahead of
Andrew jackson of New York.
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BOWLING
WITH ROD THOMAS

If Billy Stalcup had lost the
District Major League cham
pionship by four pins instead of
nine, which he did in a memoir
able race with Sonny Weldon.
the Glebe ca3tain could have
measured his defeat in terms of
minutes.
At an early season match.
Stalcup arrived late and a sub
stitute rolled the first box.
Taking over in the second. Stall
cup wound up with a score of
135, but it was credited to the
sub.
With this game to his account.
Billy would have been five sticks
richer at the seasons end. He
finished with 1906 against
Weedon's 1906. both beating
the all-time area record for a
league season.
But it wasn't the closest race
in District League history. A
decade back, Tony Santini and
Frank (Bub) Guethler tied for
the title down to a pin. each
with 1922 for lit games Both
were members of the Lucky
Strike team. Moving into the
finsl match. Guethler was 40
sticks up. after leading most of
the season. Santini caught him
in the last box when Guethler.
the finest southpaw duckpinner
OF the period. picked three-pin
break for a fiat 10. On that final
night, Santini rolled 424 and
Grethler. 1884.
Says Ben McAlwee. who scored
the league: "Tony and Bub gave
me a hard time. I checked and
re-checked their averages until
was dizzy. And that wasn't
all. There was another unusual
tie. Santini and Eddie Keith
had exactly 400 spares EACH"
X n Il
When the District Major
League payoff is held Tuesday
night at the Calvert Mansion in
Hyattsville. the name of Stalcup
Will be called often. He cap
tanned the winning team, led in
spares, was second high in av-
erage and will collect three
prizes for big sets. His 486 was
best. his 484 second and his 481
tied for third.
Scorer Johnny Parise believes
that Billy's near sweep of set
honors is without precedent in
the league,
Staleup. like Weldon, failed to
hold his average in the finale,
but the pressure didn't seem to
be a major factor.
To quote Guethler, quite an
authority: I'm duckpins, you
sometimes get 'em when you
don't deserve 'em, and lose 'em
when they oughta drop"
On the subject of clutch bowl
ing, he called attention to a
singular fact.
Three times" he said, "Stal-
cup broke the leagues season
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PENN RELAYS RESULTS

Richard Mathewson. Cornell, 14.1 tmeet
rEe spr) old record, i4'3. set BY Jack
:, Broad jump, Joel shankle, Duke,
b s1ss9n ~ Gs" EuEsH cssr sosh os
Yale aa-4S: s.. Dale csSssn. VIII
32-S34; 8, Herb Haliowell, Penn State,
sprin. medley relay championship
Hertiman, Eugene Halifi, Charles Jenk-
l ms :h Z: cornell, B. Fort Monmouth: A.
i00-ysrd dash DASH. 1t. Rod Richard.
F9rt Lee: John Haines, Penn; 3,
Jones, North Carolina Art OF seconds.
gbs fh sRn a as2ssf 5at Ma Rf
Hartman. Lasalie. Bob Davis, Georgia,
all tied at feet 4 inches
eph sdS ph hseG %' Ff poSad Ssrn sa
Frank McLaushiiny; aMHaverford; 81
sss meet record I os Tecof 3soG
sS0-yard relay championship: L.
Franz Rich A5'huE slm Gssss L eesss
(Brooklynl; Penn State, I ;26.6.' l'"
fihSs me- Geo relay ss sRamD0 %atei
lanyl: Morgan State: 3--George-
town, 4--cornell. 1884, A new meet
record. Old record 3:1S.9 set by
Seton Hall in 1910.
Mile relay division ~: Maryland
doe. Hemler. Dave Leas, Bob Messer-
smith. Burke Wilson: 2-PennsylVania
3-Navy; 4--FordhaE. 3:lS.2.
Mile relay championship: l-Villanova
(James Moran. Eugene Mallif, Warner
Heitsman Charlie jenkins; 2--Corneil;
3--Morsan state; 4---Michigan. 3.i7.B,
Pole vault. donald Bragg, Wis
lanova, IA feet. Az inches: 2-Thomas
Robert Ehrhart. ouantico Marines: vii.
lam Smith, pittsburrh Harry Fuehrer.
Davis MCINTYRE. Navy. all tied at IL
feet, New meet record. Old record
~ feet inches set by Dick Morcom,
New Hampshire. in 1919
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-01
PHILADELPHIA. April 80 up.
Summaries of today's events in
the 61st annual Penn Relays:

Javelin--l Al cantello. La Sale, 223
feet II LIP inches hes Reinsldo oliver, Puerto
Fs0 soT "a h lfss S nf M iS cSrR FEET ws
inches. 4. Donald j.. Alser, Navy, is6
feet. meet record, old record 223 feet,
10 Inches BY Nick Vulmanic, Penn State
shot putt Roosevelt, Grier. Penn
tgnl. Msnhsttamn;; q feet a inch: , 2,
derson, Yale, 81 feet Y inches,
Sprint medley relay ", Division sy .'- VII
Hickman, Bruce LockerbieI; @ st.
Johns. Brooklyni 3, colgate: 4, Army,
Four;nile college ,, rslay =, /. Msphsttan
Penn Fn I State 0 J. Pittsburgh f7;44s. '
Hammer throw; Pvt, Martin EnRel,
Fort Dix. 1s3 feet INCHES Robert
"a inches; steve Dillon, Fort peyens.
ia feet, ga inches; t-,Donald seifert,
Brown, i73 feet hLa inches; 5--Stewart
n9sSn H, Hsls log Ya fee d7 FEET nfhs:
reeordi Old, record, ia feet ia
inehss, set by Steve Dillon Manhattan
Two-mile college relay championships
,tTons, Dor DORIS, shup Mains, hss vieloisli S
state: 4~cornell 7:396.
44O-yard relay Championship: l.
MORGAN state led Waters, Otis John
son. Jim ROGERS. Ken Kavel: 2--Yale;
Port Lee tvaD; Army. 40
ts0.yard shuttle-hurdle relay cham
n,onship: I--Manhattan tBrendan Doc
lev Ken Bige, Louis knight, Charles
prattli Penn state; 3-LaSalle. COZ
seconds.
:. lsn.yard hiEh hurdles; Joel shan:
william Youkers. Penn State; a.
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tying the recent record.
Maryland was second by 100
yards to Manhattan in the A.
mile championship, with Carl
Party passing the Pitt man on
the third leg and Burr Grim
holding to second place. The
winning time was 17:41.2 and
Maryland's time 17:56. Larry
Faass and Ray Horsley were the
other Maryland runners.
Maryland went unplaced in
Division II of the mile sprint
medley. The Terps scratched in
the two-mile championship.
The Georgetown Freshman
ran third in the freshman re-
lay. Villanova's winning team
posted a 3:18.4 for a new record
Morgan State was second.
Navy's Don Alser was fourth
in the javelin with a toss of
1913 feet, 9 inches. Four other
Middies did not place. Al
Cantello of LaSalle was the win
ner at 1913 feet, IL inches.
Navy scratched in the mile
sprint medley Division / champ
ionship.
Tom Flaherty of Georgetown
was second in the pole vault
with Don Bragg of Villanova
the winner at IA feet AZ inches,
a new meet record.
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Maryland Cup
Won Easily By
Lands Corner
GLYNDoN. Md, April 80 R.

GLYNDoN, Md, April 80 (P).
Mrs. william j. Strawbridge's
Lands Corner was an easy victor
today in the Maryland hunt cup.
finishing eight lengths ahead of
Hugh oDonovan's Lancrel be-
fore a crowd of 10000 in plush
Worthington Valley.
It was the second triumph
for Lands Corner in three of
Maryland's spring steeplechase
classics.
The great jumper broke the
jinx the Maryland hunt cup has
been for him with today's VIC
tory. Lands Corner finished sec
ond in the race in the last two
years
Ridden by Benjamin Murray,
the Paoli, Pa. entry led virtually
the entire four-mile distance.
The 11-year-old gelding's time
was 8::52, a full eight seconds
OF the course record set by
Blockade in 1888. There is little
doubt that seconds could have
been shaved from the time had
Lands Corner been extended in
the last halt mile.
Miss Betty Bosley's March,
lied, the favorite and winner of
the 58th running last year, fell
at the 18th fence just as he was
beginning to challenge Lands
Corner for command.
Stuart S. Janney's Philstar
was 10 lengths behind Lancrel
for third place. Behind the first
three in the order named were
mai. Gen. Richard K. Melons
Induction, Mrs. c. Paul Denck-
las Ned's Flying and Gerald
Weiss Gold Tar.
Two others besides March
lied failed to finish the Cruel
ling event. They were Mrs. Ben
3amin H Griswold 3d's Old
Fashioned. who lost his rider
at the third bend, and John
K. Shaw IRIS Highest Award
which fell at the 10Th fence.
Ten lengths separated the
fourth and sixth horses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-01
Terp Nine Tops
Tar Heels, 81

Russ Duffey, a product of
Montgomery Blair High School,
threw a three-hitter to lead
Maryland University to a 80 VIC
tory over North Carolina in an
Atlantic Coast Conference game
yesterday at College Park.
In pitching the Terps to their
seventh victory against six losses,
DUffey struck out five and walked
only one. Maryland has 6-5 ACC
record, while the Tar Heels are
AS in the conference and 7-8
overall.
The Terps, who got just five
hits off Jim Raugh. scored the
winning run in the eighth inning
on an error, a wild pitch, Bill
Walkers fly to center and
Charley Pratt's single, his second,
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Colonio l: T axe
Dinghy Lead;
Navy Second

ANNAPOLIS. April 80 (P).-
George Washington University
took a one-point lead today as
sailors from eight schools opened
a two-day set of Examinations for
the Mid-Atlantic dinghy sailing
championships.
Navy was one point back as
the crews finished five races
over a 2-mile triangular course
on the Severn River.
Georgetown. Rutgers, Catho-
lie University, Haverford, Lee
high and Drexel trailed in that
order.
Three more heats will be run
here tomorrow to decide five of
the schools who will participate
in the finals here in two weeks.
Five others are being decided in
eliminations at Kings Point this
week end.
The shippers had light and
variable winds for the sails to-
day.
Standings, with schools, skip
pers and first-day points:
/. George Washington, George
Collins and John Davies, 80. 2,
Navy. Bob Englert and Dave
Minton, 70. 3, &c or get town,
Charles Van Hagan and Joe
O'Hora, sc. 4, Rutgers, Eric Nico-
laysen, Brandes Smith and John
Stephenses. So. S, Catholic Uni
versity, Clemens Galliot and Joe
Richards, So. 6, Haverford, Dick
Hill and Ralph Samson, 46. 7,
Lehigh. Bob Orben and Bill Muir
ray. 80. 8, Drexel, Mat Flanna-
gan and Almond Tomassetti, %.
Scoring is done on a basis of
nine points for first place, grad
uated down for the other spots.
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Brooklyn Nips Cordozo
For Mile Relay Crown

PHILADELPHIA, April 80
(SpeciaD. Cardozo High
Schools top track performers
ran a very fast race here today,
but it wasn't fast enough, as
the Brooklyn Boys High team
won the high school mile relay
championship of the 61st an
nual Penn Relays.
Westinghouse, Spingarn
and Dunbar from the Wash
ington area all recorded VIC
tories in an afternoon Of mile
races.
The Little Generals from Arl-
ington, Va. registered the fast
est time in the long list of events
billed as high school class mile
relays"
In the big race, Cardozo just
missed overhauling the Brook
Ign team, which sped the dis
lance in very fast 1898, just
IL seconds off the meet record.
Cardozo was second, just two
yards behind. Rindge Tech of
Massachusetts, was third and
Lincoln Of New Jersey took
fourth.
Running for the WASHINGTON
team were Ulysses Mclaughlin,
Paul Harris. Jules Lucas and
Dave Harris. The winning Brook
lyn team was made up of John
Davis, Edgar Lunford, Melvin
Barnwell and Ralph Baas. ..
In winning its particular race
one Of about a score on the
program - Washington Lees
team of Gary Fritschmann, Bob
Bair, John Dobsor and Tom
Calhoun was clicked in 1902.
Two races previous to this one.
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record for a set. and each time
he did it the tough way-with
spares in the last two boxes"
The second annual Whip
Litchheld Memorial Open today
at the Greenway Bowl honors
the memory of a distinctive
duckpin star. Litchfield bowled
of the wrong" foot-in this
instance. the right. He took q
lot of ribb'ng-and prizes.
Whip was a member of Ray
VIC sser's Packard team that
rolled a league set of 2,l23 which
for seven years has been the
world record.
A topf1ight field is entered in
the Litchf1eld, to be rolled in
two five-game blocks, with shifts
at 2. 4, 6 and 8 pm. Top prize
is $500, plus the coveted Ellis
Goodman Trophy.
+ \ ~
A reminder: Entries for the
Champion of Champions tourna-
ment close tonight.
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Eddie Payne Wins
Old Dominion Feature

Eddie Payne of Fredericksburg,
Va, won the 25-lap stock car
feature at Old Dominion Speed
way, Manassas. last night and
Nick Fornora of Danbury, Conn,
won the 25-lap midget feature
before more than 1900 fans,
the largest racing crowd at the
track in two years.
Wally Gore Of Arlington, last
weeks stock car winner, was
second and Herman Meador Of
Silver Spring third.
Tony Romit of Bronx, N. Y,
was second in the midget car
feature and Ernie Mccoy OF
Reading, Pa, third.
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against the clock. An 11-mile
wind discouraged any attempt
at real record try.
Santee Jagged far back in the
six-man field most Of the way.
He overlook Dwyer with about
200 yards left and sped home
some 80 yards in front of his
old rival.
The old record was 4:I4.5 by
brakes Dewey johnson in 1852.
One of the more spectacular
of the relay records was Okla
homa ARMS triumph In the
university mile in 3:11.7.
Another record came in tile
shot put as Bill Nieder of Kansas
got off a heave of 56 feet 3A
inches.
Oklahoma AdkM in the uni
versity division and Abilene
Christian in the college section
were the days only double VIM
ners in relays competition.
The Aggies. whose great j. w.
Mashhurn provided some terrific
anchor work, also won the two
mile relay. Mashburn was
clicked in 46.5 seconds for his
440 leg on the mile relay in which
the Aggies shattered the old rec
ord Of 3.12.6 by Illinois in 1854.
The Aggies won two relays yes
terday. but Illinois won five in
1943.
Abilene Christian set new
mark Of Alb seconds in the col
lege 440 relay. Kansas State of
Emporia set a college sprint
medley standard of 3:21.o. Iowa's
time of 59.2 seconds was a rec
ord for the 480-yard shuttle
relay.
In the individual competition,
Northwestern'S Jim Golliday,
1852 champion, won the 100
yard dash in SO seconds. Golli-
day recently returned from mill
tary service.
Willard Thomson of Illinois
took the high hurdles When his
talented teammate, Abe Wood
son, fell midway in the race.
Notre Danes Bernard Allard
was just shade under the meet
high Jump record with a 6-734
victory.
The Javelin went to Ben Gar
cha Of Arizona. State of Tempe
at 221 feet 117s inches.
In the university distance med
ley, Georgetown finished third
behind UCLA and Notre Dame.
Iowa and Oklahoma trailed. The
Uclans' time was 10:01.5. Rep
resenting the Hoyas were John
Peyton, Frank Phaging, Bob
Lippemeier and Ed Kirk.
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while a crowd of Is, 900 in Frank
lin Field moaned. Lead-of man
Ed Saunders collided with Don
Shupe of Syracuse midway
through his leg of the race.
Shupe went down and withdrew,
But Saunders. thrown far off
stride and forced to retrieve his
dropped baton. fell far back.
This was one Coach Carl
Olson hoped to win. He had his
ace, Arnold Sowell, all set to go
in the anchor lap. Sowell made
q try but he was too far back to
co anything. and Villanova won
the event in 1868.
Jenkins Hot In Mile Relay
Eillanova also won the mile
relay, with Charley jenkins run
Ming q 465 anchor quarter. He
started in fourth place, was
jostled, but still came on in the
last hundred yards to overtake
Cornell's Andy Dadagian and
Morgan States Josh Culbreath.
The time was BITS and Cornell
outlasted Morgan State for the
place.
Yale contributed to one of
Manhattan's victories when
Henry Thresher, Eli anchor man
on the half-mile team. bumped
the Jaspers' Len Moore and
pulled up. Thresher suffered a
pulled tendon and Moore con-
tinued on unmolested to win in
1855.
Manhattan's other victories
were in the four-mile relay with
a time of 17:41.2) and the shut
tie hurdles GOOD.
Shankle Sets Record
Shankle won the 120-yard
hurdles in AL, setting meet
record, and took the broad Jump
with leap of % feet 10 inches.
All told, a half-dozen meet
records were set, but none was
in the main relays. Don Bragg
of Villanova contributed another
when he went up 14-41a in the
pole vault.
Morgan State and Syracuse
each coasted to an expected tri-
umph. The Baltimore school won
the quarter-mile in 41.9 while
Syracuse captured the two-mile
In 1895, just one second off the
meet record.
Maryland's Glass B mile relay
team was the only collegiate win
ner from the Washington area.
The Terps led all the way in
beating Penn, Navy and Ford
ham. Joe Hemler, Dave Leas,
Bob Messersmith and Burke Will
son won for the Terps in 3:18.2,