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Thomas Wins
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United States Olympic squad
in 1856, took over the pace at
the end of the first lap. Moran
moved from last in a tight five
man field on the third lap to
hang right on Coleman's heels.
After the halfway mark it
was strictly a two-man affair.
Moran edged in front at the
start of the final lap but Cole
man had the push left to sue
ceed in his last chance.
YugoSlavia's Velisa Mugosa
came on strong after falling
half a lap behind to finish in
4:15.2. Bruce Lockerbie of the
New York A.C. was caught in
4:22.2 while Carl-Olaf Homen,
Finnish student at Delaware,
was a distant last.
Bragg Breaks Record
Don Bragg, the pole-vaulting
veteran from the Shanahan
Club of Philadelphia, bettered
the meet record with IS feet 4
inches. Clearing the bar on the
second attempt, Bragg i'm
proved on the old K. of C..
standard of 1894 by Bob
Richards in 1855.
In the 1000, Yale's Tom Car
rol turned in a maSterful race.
catching Pan-American 300
meter champion Tom Murphy
of the New York Athletic Club
at the wire to knock a full Sec
end off the meet record.
Carroll found running room
on the inside lane to edge Muir
ply by stride in 2:09.2. Muir
phys 2:09.3 also improved on
the previous mark of 2:10.2 set
by Delany in 1855.
Terp Runs Second
Olympic Champion Lee CAL
houn stood off a late challenge
to win the 45-yard high hurdles
for the third time in four years
by the comparatively slow time
of 5.8 seconds.
William johnson of Mary
land, squirting in the final
yards. missed on a lunge in a
bid to catch the easy-striding
Calhoun.
Paul Winder defended his
K. of c. crown in the 50-yard
dash by the narrowest of mar
gins over 1t. Eddie Collymore,
former Villanova ace now with
the Quantico Marines, in 5.4
seconds.
Collymore started slow, but
opened the throttle over the
final 20 yards and lost by half
a stride.
Bob Backus of the New York
Athletic Club bettered the meet
record by tossing the 35-pound
weight IS feet. II inches in the
field events held at Tufts Uni
verSity in nearby Medford. He
held the previous mark of SO
feet, 5 inches.
Second was Al Hall, formerly
Of Cornell, with SO feet, 9 inch
es, also over the old record.
jim Stack of Yale was sur
prise winner of the 600-yard
run in the creditable time of
1:10.9 coming from fourth in
a field of five over the last
lap and a half.
Georgetown's mile and q
mile relay teams had to settle
for a second and third, respec-
lively. in the exciting baton
tests.
Nipped at Finish
The Hoya mile quartet of Al
Hoddinott, Richard Comuso,
John Butler and Jim Kelly ap-
peared to have its race sewed
up until Seton Halls Bob An
chor sailed up on the back
stretch of the last lap. Kelly
couldn't hold of the speedy
JerSeyman and took second
some six yards back. The win
ming time was 1926. Holy
Cross was third and Boston
College fourth.
In the 2-mile event George
town had more than its match
in Yale and Villanova. The
Ellis won by five yards in 7:43.8.
NYU ran fourth.
Running for Georgetown
were AL Staebler. George YER
disco, Carlos Tan and Bob
Vinton.
Leonard (Bubby) Edelen. A
relatively unknown competitor
from the University of Mime
sofa, Tapped two runners and
ran Deacon Jones into exhaus-
ton winning the three-mile in
1880. With four laps to go
ad Edelen appearing so tired
he seemed to be forcing one
foot ahead of the other, Jones
fell by the wayside with a
stitch.