Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27
Murchison Sweeps Star Spirits;
Calhoun and Macy Break Records
Illness Forces
Tubori to Halt:
Sine Beaten
BY BILL FUCHS

DJ DILL + OOh0
The shortest and longest races,
the sprints and the two-mile
run, provided the major excite
ment in the 10th annual Star
Games at the Armory last night.
Before a packed house of 5000
spectators, Ira Murchison, speedy
Negro CT from Chicago. swept
the sprint series. replacing as
champion an ailing and over
anxious Dave Sine.
Much later in the 41a-hour
program, John Macy, who fed
from the Polish Communist army
where he was lieutenant. left
defending champion Horace
Ashenfelter a badly-beaten Sec
ond while setting meet record
Of 9:02.6 in the two-mile race.
Tabori Pulls Up
The two-mile was the third
straight setback for Laszlo Ia.
bori, the Hungarian who de-
fected after the Olympics to run
in American meets. Tabori, who
led at the start, was running in
third place on the 18th lap when
he pulled out of the race. He
said he developed a pain in his
stomach.
Another meet record was set
in the 70-yard high hurdles by
Olympic Champion Lee Calhoun.
+, Other major winners included
Joe Gaffney in the 600-yard run,
Olympic Champion Tom Court
ney in the 1,000-yard run, Bobby
Seaman in the mile, and Bob
Richards in the pole vault with q
leap Of is feet. The high jump
resulted in tie at 6 feet ga
inches.
I Murchison whipped Sine. the
hero of last years meet and the
sentimental favorite, by a good
yard in both the 10 and 80 yard
races.
Slime Disqualified
And then Slime, world record
holder in a number of events,
lost his last chance to salvage
some glory by false-starting twice
in the 100, drawing an automatic
disqualification.
4 Murchison joins Art Bragg and
Slime as the only ones to gain q
sweep in the history of the meet.
He was clicked in IL seconds for
the 70-yard dash, 80 seconds for
the 80 and a poor SO in the 100.
i Slime. the red-haired athlete
who lost chance for Olympic
glory because of a pulled groin
muscle, was suffering from an
upset stomach at the start of
last nights action. This is not
uncommon among over-tense
athletes, but it's the first time it
has happened to Slime, who in
sisted it was a physical rather
than a psychosomatic illness.
Murchison, who as an Army
radio operator, tied the world
record for 100 meters C10.1 sec.
onds) last June in Berlin,
whipped Slime in a 50-yard dash
in the Inquirer games in Phila-
delphia in his first meeting with
the young man who holds world
marks in the outdoor 220-yard
dash and hurdles.
Sine protested the Philadel-
Iphia race, claiming Murchison
broke the tape with an OUT
stretched hand, but officials up.
held Murchison's victory and .
keen rivalry was born.
Tabori Fades
Tabori, one of the worlds sub.
four-minute milers, was fading
when he pulled up on the 18th
lap of the two-mile run. Macy,
who now studies diesel engineer.
ing at the University of Houston,
put on a tremendous burst Of
speed on the last lap to leave
/ Ashenfelter, who set the former
record at 9:02.9 in 1854. a good
80 yards behind at the finish,
Ashenfelter, 34-year-old c.
man from New York who beat
Macy in Philadelphia Friday
night, was the early leader. but
Tabori took over for the fifth
through seventh laps. Macy went
ahead on the eighth lap and
was clicked in 4:30.1 for the
mile. Jerry Smart, also Of
Houston, was third and Ray
Hatton of Britain and the Uni
versity of Idaho was fourth.
Calhoun was clicked in 81
seconds in his second straight
hurdles victory here, lettering
the mark of 8.3 set by Dick
Attlesey in 1852 and tied by
Attlesey in 1854 and Calhoun last
year.
Campbell Runs Fourth
Calhoun, excl who upset
Jack Davis in this event last year
and did it again in the Olympic
final, did not have Milt Camp
bell to contend with as expected.
The decathlon champion, who
played football at the University
of Indiana, won his heat but was
not even a factor in the sh,.w-
down. He was a poor fourth be-
hind Elias Gilbert and Joel
IShankle, the ex-Duke star now
teaching physical education at
his old prep school, Randolph
Macon Academy.
Gilbert was the surprise. A
student at Winston-Salem
Teachers College and a former
high school sensation at Linden,
N. j., he was fifth here last year.
Campbell, who recently an
Inounced his retirement from all
competition except the hupdr Z,
beat Calhoun in the 50-yard OBJ.
stacle test Friday night in Phil
adelphia.
Gaffney, ex-Villanova star.
won the 600-yard run for the