Track Team Scores upset Over Powerful Wli, Defeating Yale 52-48 As Seven Records Fall

In a meet which featured seven smashed records, including meet, cage, and Harvard markers, Coach Jaakko Mikkola's Crimson track team put the skids under the Bulldog yesterday afternoon and upset the Eli powerhouse by a score of 52.48

Star performer of the meet, which took place at New Haven, was Mike Ford, who broke the Eli cage record, the meet record, and the all-time Harvard record in the pole vault with a leap of 13 feet, 11 1/4 inches.

From the Yale point of view, Roy Schwartzkopf took top honors with his victors in the mile and two mile races, setting records in both.

"Nip and Tuck"

According to Jaakko, the meet "was nip and tuck all the way, and we won because we had more fight and guts than the Yale boys. The whole team did a swell job," he said. But he warned of Dartmouth's power.

The Crimson weight-tossers swept that event, with Tom White's 48 ft., 4 in. heave to a now meet record, closely fellowed by Phil Zeigler and Bob Fisher, or "Fisher '43," as Jaakko calls him, in that order.

It was the Crimson strength in the field events that swung the balance, for, although Don MacKinnon came up with a fine performance in taking the high hurdles, Yale had four of the five individual firsts, and four of the individual seconds. However, Crimson victories in both relays clinched the meet. In the last event, which was the two-mile relay, the Harvard captain, Bob Houghton, running anchor, stretched a four-foot lead into a 25-foot one to win the meet for his team. Bill Palson, Dave Matlock, Ward Slingerland teamed up with him to set a new cage and meet record of 8:03.5.

In the shot put, Dick Pfister shoved the iron ball 45 ft., 103/4 in. to win the event from the Eli captain, Ernie Parshall. Johnny Shattuck took a third in this event. In the dash, Bill Trainor came in third behind Bud Talbott and Bill Clark of Yale, who set a new meet and cage record, when he stopped the watch at 6.3 seconds.

MacKinnon Wins Highs

Don MacKinnon's first in the high hurdles beat the Elis' Sherwood Finale. Ted Bauer added a point to the Crimson total with his third. The time was 7.9 seconds. In the lows, however, the visitors did not fare so well, for MacKinnon could only manage to get a third behind Ralph Sargent and Dick Detwiler. Here again, a new meet record was set, and the cage record tied with a time of 7.2 seconds.

Yale's Charlie Frankenhoff and Bob Boles worked together to push Johnny Bunker down into third place. The two Elis tied for first at 6 ft., 3/8 in. Next events was the pole vault, which was won by Ford, with Steve Brooks second, and Ned Greene of Yale third.

In the broad jump, little Tom Holyoke proved that he is back in form again by getting a first, beating Sam Ross of Yale with a 21 ft., 10 in. leap. Ted Bauer took a third in this event.

Talbott Pulls in Relay

The Bulldog was unfortunate in the mile relay when sprinter Bud Talbott, running lead-off man, pulled on the first lap as he was chasing Larry Carbett, and no the Harvard quartet, including Corbett Ellis, McKechnie, and Slingerland ran to a mechanical victory.