Evening star., 1961-01-29
BY DICK SLAY
star staff Writer

BY DICK SLAY
| star staff writer
Meet records toppIed in four
events and Cardozo High
School clinched the team
championship for the fourth
year as the afternoon program
produced most Of the fireworks
yesterday in the seventh an
lnual scholastic section of the
Star Games at the Armory.
The Clerks grabbed the point
lead early. totaled a safe 20
points for the daytime action
and finished with a lofty 81
as they regained the team title
they last won in 1858.
| Dundalk Of Baltimore County
scored in only two events but
gathered II points for second
place as irwin Hook, the Mary
land State cross country cham
pion. won the mile in a record
4:30.8 and anchored the vim
ming mile medley relay four
some. b
Spingarn Takes Third
Third was spingarn, last
years team winner, which ran
a close second to Cardozo in
| the third and last schoolboy
event at night. top lex up four
points and edge out Washing
ton-Lee, q two-time champion,
E131s points to Is. st. Johns
and Roosevelt tied for fifth
with IL points each.
Cardozo'h 660-yard medley
relay team put the Clerks in
front to stay by winning the
third event completed and they
added to their lead when Alex
ander Wright crecked the meet
record for the 600-yard run.
At night, the Clerks picked
UP a surprising second place
and four points when Moses
McC Combs was barely beaten by
Defending Champion Lambert
Anderson of Roosevelt in the
100-yard dash.
Anderson finished with leg
cramps and nipped McCombs
by maybe q foot in the slow
time of 20.3 seconds. Bernard
Burns Of Anacostia, who was
third in the final. had the best
team Of the day. 10.2. set in
the first afternoon semifinal.
Cardozo Finishes Strong
In the last event. the mile
relay. Wright got Cardozo of
in front with q 52-second
quarter leg and James Hutcher,
Charles Mayes and Charles
Mont repulsed every Spinearn
bid to win by q couple yards in
meet record.
Hook ran the best mile oi
his two-year career in track
as he lowered that standard by
So secondc. Pete Dalton of
High Point, who has competed
against Hook some half a doz-
en- times. led the first five laps
and finished a step back in
ABB, also under the former
meet record of 4::36 set by
Armstrong; Norman North five
years ago.
Another 1856 meet mark tc
go was Nathaniel Austin's 1:17.1
time in the 900. but Wright
kept it in the Cardozo family
as he lunged in front OF the
favored Ramsey Thomas Of
Catonsyille on the last stride
to win in 1:l5.5. Thomas also
was timed at 1:I5.5.
Champion Repeats
Russ Peterson, defending
champion in the broad jump,
and Randolph = Macon Acad-
emy's foursome in the invita-
ton mile relay, broke a pair
Of two-year-old meet records
Robert Green of Spingarn
tied the 70-yard high hurdles
record Of 8.6 seconds in the
semifinals and then won the
first schoolboy final at night
in 81. The tall, stocky Inter-
high League champion finished
a good 5 yards in front of
Phelps Johnny Cheek in the
final. and was not pressed
enough to equal again the mark
set by Ronald Moore Of Car
dozo, two years ago.
After Peterson improved the
broad jump mark by / foot 21s
inches in the first event COM
pleted-leaping 22-3hs. 21-5ia
and 2l-101a to break the old
2l-1 record every time-Car-
dozo picked up 4 points when
jeff Moreland of st. Johns up
set the Clerks Charles Mont,
who was defending his 1000
yard triumph of a year ago.
Moreland took the lead in
the fastest section on the Sec
ond lap and then beat the
charging Mont by a yard In
2:22.3, six-tenths off the rec.
ord.
Relay Record Set