Trackmen Take Triangular

Crimson trackmen captured the first three places in the hammer throw, shot put, and the mile, and swept the broad jump as they topped Dartmouth and left Brown in the dust last Saturday. The score at the end of the day was Harvard 87 3/10, Dartmouth 56 1/10, and Brown 30 3/1.

Although they won on their strength in the field events, the most spectacular moments of the day came for the Crimson on the track. The mile was the most unexpected Harvard victory; a highly partisan crowd, jubilant when Mark Mullin passed Dartmouth's Tom Laris on the third lap, went wild as Jed Fitzgerald and Ed Hamlin both passed the Dartmouth ace with 210 yards to go. Mullin's time was 4:11.1; Fitzgerald was a second and a half behind him.

Team captain Fred Howard turned in perhaps the finest single performance of the day by breaking his own University record in the half-mile. Howard, who had already taken a fourth in the 440 an hour earlier, clipped six-tenths of a second off the old mark to finish the course in 1:51.4. He added his day by turning in a 48.8 second leg for the mile relay team, which finished second behind Dartmouth.

Tom Blodgett took two firsts (in the pole-vault and 120-yard high hurdles) and two thirds (in the 220-yard low hurdles and broad jump). His best performance was in the high hurdles, where he edged out Brown's favored Angelo Sinisi in the stretch.

In the field, the Crimson's depth was the decisive factor. The team swept all four spots in the broad jump; Marty Beckwith was first with a leap of 21 ft., 10 in. and Chuck Azikiwe was six inches behind him. Tom Blodgett and Alan Albright completed the Crimson sweep.

Stan Doten, Ed Bailey, and Roger Wilson accounted for the first three slots in the hammer. Doten's winning throw was 187 ft., 11 1/2 in. Something of a mild upset occurred in the shot put, as Steve Cohen beat University record-holder Rick deLone by four inches to win the event at 52 ft., 6 1/4 in. Sarge Nicholas took third for the Crimson.