Evening star., 1955-05-21
Ha|f-MiIe Race
Steals Show as
Santee Fails


Yves Santee is still looking for
that four minute mile and the
National half mile rating chart
is a tumble today after the 18th
annual Los Angeles Coliseum re-
lays.
Santee. given only fair pac-
ing and competition. ran the
featured mile in 4:05.5. a meet
record But the race that cap
tured the fancy of 56,173-
largest track crowd of the sea-
son-was the freewheeling $50
that saw Ron Delaney, Villanova
freshman, winning on a disqual-
ification in 1:50.5.
The half-mile was a heart
breaker for Pittsburgh's Arnie
Sowell. who was in command
until the final turn, when he
was headed by Tom Courtney
of Fordham. Courtney went on
to cross the finish line first, but
the judges ruler he cut in too
closely and gave the victory to
Delaney, who was about yards
back.
SoWell, forced to run on the
infleld grass. broke stride and
wound up last in the crack field.
Whitfield Runs Fourth
Nal Whitfield, co-world record
holder at 1:48.6, had to be con-
tent with fourth place. Lon
Spurrier, former California star
who was clocked in 1:47.5 earlier
this year. was placed second,
with Lang Stanley third.
Another favorite and world
record holder who fell was jave-
lin thrower Bud Held. Held
wound up fifth after his 261-foot
toss, within three feet of his
world mark, failed to stick in
the turf and was disallowed. His
Olympic Club teammate, Cy
Young, won with a 257-foot
fling.
Santee finished nearly 20
yards ahead of Billy Tidwell OF
Emporia State Teachers. Phil
Coleman of the Chicago Track
Club and Sid Wing of Southern
California were third and fourth.
The first four runners were
timed in 4:08 or less, as Fin
lands Denis Johansson's old
coliseum relays mark Of 4:08.6
went into the discard.
Young's Javelin toss was an
other Relays record. A third
was chalked up by another 1852
Olympic champion, Adhemar Da
Silva of Brazil, who got out to
SO feet 912 inches in the hop.
step and jump.
The form chart took a beat
ing. too. in the quarter mile, won
by Kevan Gosper of Australia,
running for Michigan State
While Lou Jones of Fort Knox
and Jim Lea of the Los Angeles
A. C. were repeating their Pan
American Games duel on the
inside lanes, GoSper came down
the middle of the stretch to win
by two yards in 46.9. Jones was
second, Lea third.
Seven False Starts.
The century, as expected, was
won by Jim Golliday of North
western in 96. Seven false starts
slowed the race and resulted in
gun-jumping disqualification of
Andy Stanfield, New York
Pioneer Club veteran, and John
Haines of Pennsylvania. Dean
Smith of Texas and Art Pollard,
Penn State. were second and
third.
Stanfield repeated as 220-yard
low hurdles winner. He won by
inches from Illinois. Willard
Thomson in 23.3. Thomson took
the l20-yard highs handily in
IA flat
Oklahoma A81M, spanked by j.
w. Mashburn's 45.8 anchor lap,
reeled off a 3:l0.9 victory in the
mile relay. UCLA edged Michi-
gan in the two-mile relay in
1905.
Winners in their specialties
were Ernie Shelton. Southern
California 6-feet-l0-inches in
the high jump; the Rev. Bob
Richards and ex-Illini Don Lag,
IA feet. 10 inches, tying in the
polt vault; Parry O'Brien, Travis
Air Force Base, So feet 234 inches
in the shot put; Roy Range. Fort
Ord. "a feet 724 inches in the
broad jump, and Des Koch,
Southern California, ITO feet Az
inches in the discus.
Th0ilonooe TL~-1:>n