Big Red Wins Track Heptagonals; Crimson Varsity Takes Fifth Place

The varsity track team, along with eight other Eastern squads, ran up against a stone wall of Cornell winning performances Saturday as the Big Red rode to a crushing victory at the Heptagonal Track and Field Championships at Annapolis, Md. The Crimson came in fifth, behind Cornell, Navy, Yale, and Army, in that order.

The Ithacans, led by 16-point winner Bo Roberson, collected six first places in the 16 events and a total of 631/2 points in all, the highest Heptagonal score since 1945. Roberson won the 100-yard dash (9.6 seconds) and the broad jump (24 feet, 73/4 inches) and took a second in the 220.

For the Crimson, which amassed 341/2 points, Joel Landau was the only outstanding performer. Landau won both the low and high hurdles, in 23.7 and 14.2 seconds respectively, and the latter time would have set a new record except for the high wind which prevented it from being entered in the books.

Captain Pete Reider came in second in the two-mile event, his hopes for a win thwarted by a surprise victory by Cornell's Nat Cravener, who had never won a two-mile race before. The winning time was 9:22.3.

In the hammer throw, another surprise Ithacan performance eased out the Crimson's John DuMoulin, who took second place. Paul Boguski made the best toss of his career to win the event at 177 feet, 7 inches.

John deKiewiet tied for second in the high jump with Bill Fay of Army, both with 6-2 efforts. Cornell star John King, the heavy favorite, won the event easily with a record jump of 6-63/4.

What hurt the varsity most was shutouts in both dashes, the 880, and the mile relay, all of which coach Bill McCurdy had relied on as Crimson point-gainers. Sandy Dodge had a bad day in the dashes, and Art Cahn was tired for the 880 after running a very fast qualifying heat against Yale's John Slowik, who won the main event in 1:58.