Thinclads Dominate Tri-Meets; Slay Hapless Columbia, 9-0

PROVIDENCE--It has been true in Ivy League women's track for years, and now it's true for the men as well: there's Harvard, there's Princeton, and then there's the other six.

Saturday, the Crimson track squads humiliated two of the other six--Dartmouth and Brown. In Providence the men thinclads easily won the tri-meet with 87 points, beating second-place Dartmouth by over 20 points and third-place Brown by over 35.

Up in Hanover, the women had just as easy a time with their opponents, amassing 72 1/2 points, while Brown took second with 55 and Dartmouth brought up the rear with a meager 31 points.

Newfound Prominence

For the men's squad, entry into the Ivy League's track elite has only just come this year. Last year in the same tri-meet the Crimson barely eked out second place, beating the Bruins by only 1 1/2 and losing to the Big Green by 12. This season, though, the Harvard outdoor track team has come into its own. The Crimson proved to be the class of the indoor circuit after clinching the heptagonal championship, and it seems after Saturday's meet that the thinclads are continuing, where they left off this winter.

The Crimson completely dominated the cold, rainy Providence meet Witness the thinclads' nine first places, and their failure to place in only three events.

As usual, the Crimson owned the jumping events. Freshman Mike Okwu took first in the long jump with a leap of 22-ft., 6 1/2-in., followed by Co-Captain Gus Udo and senior Jimmy Johnson, who finished second and third respectively. The Crimson also took the first two places of both the triple and high jump, with Udo winning the hop, skip and jump competition, freshman Doug Boyd winning the high jump and senior Mark Henry taking the runner-up spot in both events.

The women's squad was led by sophomore Maraquita Peterson, who scored 15 points by herself. She won both the 400-and 110-meter hurdles, moving from fourth place after the last hurdle to first by the time she got to the tape. She also leapt 17 feet to capture first place in the long jump as well.

The male hurdlers had an equally successful afternoon. sophomore Steve Ezeji-Okoye blew away the opposition in the 100, and then, despite feeling ill, came back and won the longer version, catching Brown's Grant Harshbarger on the last hurdle. Teammate Jim Herberich finished fourth in both events.

In events without obstacles to leap over, the Crimson was just as successful Dwayne Jones flew by the other runners in the 400. From the crack of the gun. Jones was out in front, though he wasn't able to shake Bruin Arnold West until the last turn, when West faded, finishing a far second behind Jones. In the 200. Jones again proved to be unbeatable, taking first with a time of 21.5, while teammate Jay Hudson finished fourth, after taking second in the 100.

The women combined their sprinting talents to win the 4x100 relay. Junior Alice Newhauser grabbed the lead and teammates Kathy Bushby. Sigrid Gabler and Theresa Moore held on for the lead. Newhauser then went on to win the 100. In the throwing events, sophomore Maria Accacia continued her winning ways, taking the shot put and throwing her personal best in the javelin.

All in all, halfway into both meets, there was very little question as to their outcome and thoughts began turning to future events. Both the men and women will enter the B.C. relays this week. Dolf Berle will enter the decathalon, while Patterson and co-captain Karen Gray will enter the pentathlon.

THE NOTEBOOK: After the men's meet, the whole-team headed to assistant manager Ellen Reeve's house to help Reeve's mom celebrate her 50th birthday.