Crimson Four Gains Victory In Mile Relay

Victory in its mile relay event and creditable performances by individual Crimson representatives in the pole vault and high hurdles featured the Varsity track team's participation in the Knights of Columbus meet at the Boston Garden athletes turned in outstanding performances before more than 12,000 spectators at Boston's first big league meet of the season, but individual laurels went to Wes Flint, who took third place in the 45-yard high hurdle event won by AAU champion Harrison Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace, and later anchored the mile relay team to its triumph.

Several of Coach Jaakko Mikkola's Saturday night.

Harwood and Lawrence Score

Pete Harwood, the Crimson's ace pole vaulter, finished second in his department with a hoist of 13 feet, while Bill Lawrence's 12.6 jump earned him third place. Both Varsity sprinters, Harvey Thayer and Bob Toppan, failed to place against a classy field of 50-yard dash contestants, although Thayer reached the semi-finals, and the Harvard two-mile relay team finished third in a field of six.

Flint's performance was noteworthy in that he nosed out highly-regarded Haakon Lidman, of Sweden, and Bill Mitchell, a topflight entry from Indiana. Dillard set a new meet record in the 45-yard high hurdles at 5.6 trailed by a yard by Ted Sparrow, the Tufts athlete with whom Flint has been engaging in personal duels ever since prep school. Flint edged Sparrow in the Tufts-Northeastern- Harvard informal meet two weeks ago, but the Jumbo timber-topper reversed the process Saturday night.

Dave Reed, Mikkola's other hurdle entry, also reached the finals. He finished sixth, although he was second to Dillard in his initial heat.

Harwood wound up in second place in the pole vault to Art Sherman despite the fact that both men did 13 feet. Sherman was awarded first place because he cleared the height on his first try; while Harwood missed once before scaling the bar. Neither could clear 13.6.

In the mile relay, run against Holy Cross and Brown, an excellent second leg by Al Ruby gave the Varsity a lead it never relinquished. All three runners were bunched closely together at the end of the first 440 yards, but Ruby's spurt and the loss of a baton by the second Holy Cross runner gave Harvard a five yard lead. Flint was pushed slightly in the final hundred yards, but maintained the same five-yard advantage as he breasted the tape.

Varsity Time 3:30.4

Brown finished second, and Holy Cross never returned to contention after the second leg lapse. The Varsity quintet's time, 3:30.4, was three-tenths of a second slower than its performance in Briggs Cage against Tufts and Northeastern. Ruby, Flint, Dave Hamblett, and Jim Wheeler made up the winning combination.

In the two-mile relay, Tufts' Ted Vogel, a cross-country star and B.A.A. marathon participant, ran the first 880 for the Jumbos, and gave his squad a fifteen yard lead it never lost. The Crimson, M.I.T., and Boston College jockeyed for second place, and the Tech anchor man moved ahead of Harvard's Ted Withington to finish behind Tufts.WES FLINT had a busy night at the Boston Garden Saturday night, anchoring the Crimson's mile relay team to victory over Brown and Holy Cross, and placing third in the 45-yard high hurdle event.