Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-02-20 | Page 20 | Track Aces Vie for New Marks

Track Aces Vie for By PAUL NEW YORK Feb 20 UP uP- uP 4 The track and field cavalcade with six weeks of setting record-setting j competition under Its belts sends 14 of 17 1940 titleholders Into aco ac- ac o the third fifty-third annual national national na- na 0 A U AA A AU U championships at Madison Square quare Garden Saturday night Of this formidable contingent a only three of last years year's champions cham- cham OI Greg Greg Rice of South Bend Ind Joe McCluskey McCloskey of the theN theN N NY Y A C and Al Blozis of Georgetown George George- town town are are given any chance of repeating v. v Rice Will Run I Rice Bice the almost unbeatable mite of the Indoor world will be out to protect a string of seven seven j J- J consecutive victories th this s season and a skein of 14 straight over I two seasons indoors when he runs in the three-mile three event Last year the former Notre Dame star shattered the three-mile three standard A with a clocking If U the veteran McCluskey wins In the two-mile two steeplechase he J 7 will gain his twenty-third twenty nao national national na- na o title Blozis world record- record holder in the shot put should meet little trouble in his division u New York university's relay teams must be included in the J favorites' favorites division because the Violet contingent took three of the four relay titles last year Only important absentee will be Jimmy Herbert who helped his team to two triumphs in 1940 Mac Chooses Relay But Leslie MacMitchell I mile star of th the current season season will forego competition in that event against Chuck I Fenske Walter Mehl and John among others to run the anchor leg for N NYU Y U on the 1 mile ITs mile medley That should cinch a Violet victory but the theN theN theNY N NY Y A C in an attempt to win its tenth straight team title has entered entered entered en en- en- en the veterans Gene i f and Luigi Beccali in the medley nh f also also will run in the theof of 4 1000 S A Fenske will face Mel in 1 the mile in addition to Mehl and All three have beaten S Fenske Fensk on different occasions this year 0 Tries for Double A d In the and 1000 Charlie 0 Beetham of Columbus Ohio will attempt a double victory that no athlete has attained since Abiel Kivat did the trick in 1911 and 1913 Opposing him over the route will be Jim Herbert Bob Simmons Johnny Quigley Joe and Warren Breidenbach In In the 1000 he will meet John JohnB B Borican rIcan defending champion Andy Jim Jimi t i Keh Kehoe Howie B. B Borck Jck and Sanf Sanford r Goldberg