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Show Jay Child breaks the tape for first place in the 220-yard run, which gathered points and .boosted South into the track championship. Stan Kilbourne, left, came in a close second, and Dibble of East tacked on a third. South Thinclads Grab Third Straight Title At U of U Decisive Triangular Meet going strong until he hit the next to the last hurdle and lost his stride. South took eight of the 15 possible pos-sible firsts. East took five and West two. Most notable first for East was the shotput, with Walker Walk-er taking the first easily and East capturing all places. East's Ed Woolums nosed out Doug Heiner, South anchor man in the medley relay, on the home stretch path to win a breath-taking first for East. West placed first in the discus, with big Elmer Leake chucking the platter and in the high hurdles. hur-dles. Jackson missed a record in the 880-yard run by 1.3 seconds, but he topped all previous high jump efforts by leaping 5 feet 11 inches during the triangular meet. Others who aided South in retaining re-taining the championship are: Finishing the city track season with their colors flying, Cub thinclads thin-clads grabbed the title for the third consecutive year as they dropped East and West's cinder-men, cinder-men, 64-49-22, at the triangular meet May 14 in the University of Utah stadium. East high's men led the parade during the field events, but when time came for the track events, South's superior power manifested itself and the Cubs went into the lead, which subsequently alternated alter-nated between the two schools until South annexed the title near the end of the meet. High point man for the meet was the ever-versatile Cub performer, per-former, Ralph Jackson, one of the most outstanding trackmen to wear the blue and white. He had 10 points in taking first in the high jump and the haif-mile run. Jay Child and Stan Kilbourne Kil-bourne followed close behind with 9li points apiece. Child pulled in his points in the 220-yard run, which he won, and Kilbourne won the. 100-yard dash. They split on seconds and combined with Dick Palmer and Ralph Parker to capture cap-ture the 880-yard relay. Jim Neeley, powerful 440-yard man, took his race haads down, with Billeter of West finishing strong in the second position. The mile run was the heartbreaking heart-breaking event of the day for the Cubs, when Roger Bean of East pulled ahead of Virg Van Cott, who lost his stride near the finish line to break the city record by two seconds. His time was 4:46, the old record established by Matthews Mat-thews of West harboring a 4:48.2 mark. Van Cott set a blistering pace for the four laps, breaking the strong wind for the other men. It was in the home stretch that Bean passed Van Cott. Van faltered, lost his stride with his face twisted twist-ed in agony, and stumbled over the finish line. Later, his legs tied up, and he admitted that "I didn't know Rog had so much left." That, by the way, was the first time Van has lost a race in seven starts. It was a beautiful finish for Bean, but for Virg a heartbreaking heart-breaking way in which to end his high school running career. In the hurdles, South garnered se,ven points when Koller and Woolf lost out to Ben Hathaway of East in the low hurdles and Glen Vincent of West in the high hurdles. Wilford Stevenson was |
