Evening star., 1961-01-29
Lawrence S|ashes 2-MiIe Mark;
Brown Sweeps Stars ; Sprints.
Jones Ties
Record for
20 Hurdles
BY BILL FUCHS
Star Staff Writer

Star Staff Writer
Al Lawrence, a gritty little
Australian who attends Hous-
ton University, opened all burn
ers as he tore around the Arm
ory floor to set a blistering rec
ord Of 8::54.4 In the 2-mile run
in the 14th Star Games last
night.
wren c e's performance,
cheered by crowd of 4,500, was
described by meet officials as
the fastest 2-mile ever turned
in on a flat board track.
In other standout perform
ances, Penn States Bob Brown
swept the sprint series and
Eastern Michigan's Hayes
Jones turned in a record-t tying
victory in the 70-yard hurdles:
Two Other Records
The crowd, arriving later
than usual because Of the still
unpleasant driving conditions.
was treated to two other meet
records.
Sandy Pashkin Of City Col
lege of New York, set an indoor
record in the women's 8S0-yardr
run. Roland Zinn, q cadet at
West Point, lowered the time
in the popular mile walk.
But 1t was Lawrece who dreW
the hottest approval during the
waning hours Of q five-houf
carnival. The 5-foot-7, 123-
pound national cross country
champion, a fourth-place fin
isher in the Olympic 10000
meter race, shattered by IA
seconds the former Star Games
record.
That mark was set two years
ago by John Macy, Polish ref.
ugee and a Hoston teammate
Of Lawrence's. But Macy, who
was cunning for an unprece-
dented fifth straight victory in
this meet, had to settle for
second place last night. Just a
few strides behind.
John Gutnecht, running for
the Baltimore Athletic Club.
was third and Fred Norris, the
39-year-old Britisher who upset
Lawrence in the Sugar Bowl
5 5,000-meter race four weeks
ago in New Orleans, was q
Bragg DOes15-1
Don Bragg, world record
holder in the pole vault, won
his speciality with q leap Of 10
feet l., dropping out after Sc
curing the victory because Of
leg trouble. He says he bothered
with gout.
Ed Moran, q postgraduate
student at Penn State. hung
up his third straight victory In
the mile run, while Bob Gard
ner, a Quantico Marine, took
the high Jump at 6 feet 81a.
Other winners included Cary
| Weisiger, former Atlantic
Coast Conference champion
while at Duke, in the 1000,
and Frank Bowens. Winston
Salem Teachers star, in the
900.
Browns sweep of the sprints
the 70, 80 and 100 yard
dashes-was like one race in
triplicate. In each race the
Penn State star and IC-4A
100-yard champion was exactly
one-tenth Of a second off the
meet and indoor records held
by Dave Slime, ex-Duke great.
And in each case the same
trio followed him in the same
order: Dave Styron Of the
Southern Illinois Salukis, Ed
Collymore of Quantic and Rod
Lamber of Maryland.
Brown became the fifth man
in history to take all three
dashes. Sine won the 70 last
year and pulled out Of the
other with an ailing muscle.
Brown won those and now
has five straight Star meet
dashes to his credit.
Others who won all three
were Art Bragg of Morgan
State, who did it twice, in 1852
and 1858, and Slime, 1856: Ira
Murchison, ex-Western Micht-
gan ace. 1857, and Bobby Nor
row. 1856 Olympic hero, two
years ago.
Extra Barrier for Jones
Jones feat in the hurdles.
tying the mark of 80 seconds
set by Olympic Champion Lee
Calhoun in 1857, was all the
more astounding because he
had an additional barrier to
leap over. A new AAU rule
raised the number of hurdles
from five to six.
Don Styron, Dawes twin who
owns the world mark for the
220-yard low hurdles, was a
runnerup like his brother. He
followed Jones to the tape by
a couple Of steps. but well In
front of Elias Gilbert, the ex-