Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-12
Terps Roll Over Co|oniaIs, 67-46;
jenkins O'Brien Set Track Records
DeIony Wins
Mile in 4:l4;
Sine Reoten

NEW YORK. Feb. II R.-I
Charlie Jenkins Of Villanova and
Parry O'Brien. former Southern
California star, broke world rec
ords in the New York A. C..
Games tonight at Madison
Square Garden. Jenkins In the
50o-yard run and OBrien in
the shot put.
jenkins, q youngster who prob
ably Is the fastest middle dis
lance runner in the world, ran
his distance in 56.4 seconds
while O'Brien broke his own
year -old mark by tossing the To-
pound bali SO feet. 8 inches.
Lee Calhoun, q Slim North Car
olina College timber topper, also
came through with great effort
and tied the world indoor 60
yard hurdles record with q IL
seconds clocking.
Two other big events produced
slow times. however. The Bax-
ter Mile was q disappointing
Ala triumph for Ron Delany.
the villanova sophomore from
Ireland, and Arnie Sowell Of
Pitt was of in his attempt ct
the 1905 880-yard record. wins
ming in 1878 over Tom Court
ney.
Sydnor Beats Slime
Another feature of the meet
was a split decision giving George
Sydnor of Villanova the 60-yard
dash over Dave Slime Of Duke to
the accompaniment Of boos from
the crowd. The time was 81
seconds.
A crowd Of about $4,000 was
on hand to watch Jenkins grab
the lead at the start of the 500
and lengthen his margin with
every stride to shave two-tenths
of a second OF Nal Whitfield's
recognized 56.6 record set in
1858.
Lou Jones. the world 400-meter
champion, was no match for
jenkins and got home about
eight yards back in second place.
Joe Gaffney Of Philadelphia's
shanahan Catholic Club was
third. u T
O'Brien Is Disqualified
Actually. the crowd came with
the hopes Of seeing the indoor
half-mile record set by the late
John Borican. smashed by
Sowell or by Courtney Of the
Army. Sowell won with ease by
about five yards over Courtney.
but his time was too slow. :,
The gigantic O'Brien, q bruis-
ing hulk Of q man now In the
Air Force, took little solace in
his shot record, for the magic
60-footer. which he has been
seeking indoors. again eiuded
him. A
The big former Southern Cali
fornia athlete who holds every
shotput record IN the books
he's the only man ever TO get OF
a 60-footer outdoors-made the
throw on his fourth attempt.
His recognized world indoor
record Is 50 feet. 51a inches.
Delany Wins With Ease
O'Brien bettered the meet rec
ord Of So feet, 3la inches set by
Jim Fuchs of the New York A. c..
in 1851. on four of his six puts.
The expected big Sowell-
Courtney battle never came OF
In the $50. The Pitt ace, who
was making his FIRST start in q
cup race this year. won as he
pleased, Courtney. when he
finally made his bid, didn't have
it.
In the mile, Delany merely
toyed with his rivals and again
refused to run any faster than
required to win. Little George
King Of New York University. Q
new face on the scene. was Sec
ond. Len Truck Of the Air Force,
and Joe Deadly Of Washington,
former Georgetown star, were
third and fourth, respectively.
The crowd hooed the mile all
through the race, and reserved
some choice catcalls when the
results were announced.
When Sydnor was given the
decision over Slime in the dash.
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