Men Tracksters Win Meet; Women Take Fourth

"Princeton didn't seem particularly obnoxious. They were smiling. Of course, they killed everyone." Ellen Gallagher said after Saturday's Women's Ivy Championship Track Meet at Dartmouth.

Needless to say, Princeton won the meet, outdistancing second place Penn by 70 points, 159 to 89. Harvard placed fourth with 77 points.

Golden Girl

Gallagher, Harvard's long distance golden girl, who posted wins in the 5000-and 3000-meter races, shared the "most outstanding tack performer" award with Princeton sprinter Sally Anderson.

Gallagher said she "never really expected to win" her events, especially the 5000 meters which she had never run. The only other Crimson first place came in the two mile relay, run by team captain Becky Rogers, Grace DeFries, Mary Herlihy and Kris Linsley.

"We couldn't really expect to beat Princeton, but our performance was pretty impressive." Rogers said Head coach Pappy Hunt agreed with Rogers, lamenting. "We don't have the depth to match Princeton."

No Harvard runners made it to the finals of the five short-distance events. "The shorter distances are our weakness," Hunt said.

Injuries also hurt the thinclads' finish in the meet, Hunt said. He predicted that if Darlene F. Beckford '82, who was grounded in Cambridge with a bum knee, had been able to compete. "She would have easily won the 1500- and 800-meter races, giving us 14 or 15 more points," and moving Harvard's team score into second place.

He also said that if Linsley had not been coming off a bad ankle she would probably finished higher than third in the 1500- and 3000-meter runs, and that Herlihy, who hurt her hip in the relay, had to be scratched from two later events where she would have scored some points.

Kim Johnson, who finished second in the shot put and third in the discuss throw was the only member of the squad to place in a field event.

The runners will compete in the Greater Boston Invitational Track Meet next Saturday.