Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-02-24 | Page 13 | Track Aces Set Marks on Boards

T Track rack Aces Set Marks MarksOn MarksOn On Boards By PAT ROBINSON I NEW YORK Feb 24 INS INS INS- Dan Ferris boss of the A AAU A U was I right All the track coaches were I I right and the athletes themselves were right when they said that the limit of human speed and endurance endurance endurance en en- durance had not yet been reached The national indoor track and andfield andfield field championships in Madison Square Garden Saturday proved prayed them all correct when five new world records were set and one tied three championship marks smashed and another equalled Rice Tops Field To that little marvel from Notre Noire Rice the Dame Gregory goes honor of smashing three world standards He broke his own world record I for the mile 3 run which he negotiated negotiated negotiated in 1351 or 13 seconds better better better bet bet- ter than his former best figures En route he also set a new world mark for 2 miles mUes at and for 2 2 miles at 1249 Not only did the little champion run un his rivals ragged but he also had the satisfaction of lapping his greatest rival Don Lash of Indi ana asia Today track coaches are afraid even to hazard a guess what Rice could do if pushed all the way over the two or three mile routes Next to Rice we liked best that amazing old footed flat-footed veteran Joe McCluskey who gathered in his twenty-third twenty A AAU A U championship champion champion- ship by setting the new world mark for the two mile steeplechase at clipping seconds oft off the former mark which he himself held Another world record went overboard overboard overboard over over- board in the distance medley and mile which a great N NYU Y U quartet covered In This time also betters betters' the outdoor record h Shines I Allan Detroit's great I timber topper equalled his own world mark by taking the yard 70 high hurdles in 84 seconds The new championship records fell to John Borican of New Jersey Jersey Jersey Jer Jer- sey In the yard 1000 run 2115 to Earle Meadows in the pole vault 14 feet 4 8 5 inches and to a brilliant quartet of Georgetown freshmen who traveled the mile mUe relay route in Herb Thompson of New Jersey equaled a championship record by taking the yard 60 sprint in 62 seconds All these of course won cham chain The other champions many of whom closely pressed record roe rec ord figures in winning were Al AI Blozis sh shot t put 55 feet U 4 inch N NY NYU Y U sprint medley 1 1562 Walter Mehl Mehi mile St. St Johns John's half mile relay 1353 Lockhart R Rogers Rogers Rog Rog- gers g- g ers broad jump 23 feet 8 8 3 inches Nat Jaeger mile walk and Mel Walker high jump 6 feet 6 inches