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Show Old Marks Doomed in Track Meet f ,-.)". p , V ! A U I ' ' tttmm ma isi iwi' reg Rlee . . . This diminutive ' termer Notre Dame distance aee meets his supreme test when he I matches strides with Talste Maid. By PAT ROBINSON NEW YORK. March 30 (INS) Thirty hand-picked athletes, com-BTising com-BTising national, collegiate and world champions and record holders, hold-ers, will compete In that long-awaited long-awaited track meet of champions tn Madison Square Garden tomorrow tomor-row night. With only four stars starting In each event, the stage is set for the most spectacular track meet the Garden has ever seen. Five "Sure" Marks Track experts predicted freely thst new world records will be hung up In each event, but the writer ventures to suggest that the only "sure" new marks will be r made in the Vi and 3-mile runs, the 70-yard high hurdles and the - 8-pound and 12-pound shotput. Allan Tolmlch, Larry O'Connor, Jay Shields and Frank Fuller will open the program with a flight b over the 70-yard high hurdles and we expect to see Tolmich win in a blanket finish in 8.9 seconds, or three-tenths under the existing record. Tolmlch te Repeat m We like Tolmich to repeat in the i fiO-vard hleh hurdles in just about 7.3, which is world record time. Blozis should repeat with the 12-pound 12-pound ball, but here we expect him to surpass the existing standard of 60 feet 7 5-8 Inches by at least two feet. John Borican should beat Campbell Camp-bell Kane. Phil Graves and San-ford San-ford Graves in the six-furlong race, but we doubt his expressed ability to lower 2:59.7. Chuck Tops Field Two mllen. Chuck Fenske and Gene Venzke, are moving up, and twomllers, Walter Mehl and Ralph Schwartzkot, are moving down to ' meet in the m-mile run, and here we expect to see Fenske shave at least two seconds off the world record, 6:37.8, In whining this one. We give the east shade In .the east-went mile relay, but do not r expect to see the world standard of 3:15.2 beaten, but do expect to see an equivalent 3:19 on the small Garden oval. Then comes the big three-mile finale, with Taisto Maki, the Flying Fly-ing Finn, trying to outrun Gregory Greg-ory Rice, Don Lash and Joe Mo Cluskey. Contrary to Paavo Nur-mi's Nur-mi's opinion, we do not think Maki can run the finishing "kick" out of Rice and we, therefore, will string with the little Notre Dame runner. run-ner. Maid la Shape Rumors that Maki was trained too fine were pigeonholed last night when he set a new Cleveland indoor record at two miles while lapping a field of four competitors competi-tors to win in 9:17.07. His own world outdoor record for the distance dis-tance Is 8:53.2. Maki took the lead at the second lap and was never challenged. Although beaten twice this year at shorter distances, Maki has been - supreme at three miles since he act the world indoor record of 13:42.4 last summer. He set a new Indoor dirt track record of I 14:01.9 In Chicago two weeks ago. |