Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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awling cour- 'landT y The illianT wuary iping l was T The awess iuTed TT C. 'riors soon l i 9-5-m-I,-----, TRACK TEAM T932 Told and DarTmouTh was Torced To bend 'neaTh The yoke, anoTher vicTim oT Man- haTTan. The disTance was negoTiaTed in 3:28, Tour seconds be++er Than Their previous ' ' ' T +'ll reaTer achievemenTs oTher aTTempT. While The relay was Thus priming iTselT or s i g i ' i ' d d 'nTo shape and were Taking TirsT, second and individual sTars had quickly roun e i Third place honors among huge Tields oT compeTiTion. Among These was Jack Ryan oT cross-counTry Tame, who placed in Ten oT The eleven meeTs he parTicipaTed in, garnering one TirsT place, six seconds, Two Third and one TourTh. Joe lvlcCluskey oT Fordham was Ryan's nemesis ThroughouT and alThough The lvlanhaTTan boy ran some very splendid races in highly commendable Time, sTill The Maroon sTar was always iusT a Tew seconds beTTer. Frank McKenna also sTrung up a long lisT oT vicTories alongside his name while Frank Crowley, now a varsiTy runner, compeTed againsT The world's besT runners and was always good Tor a TirsT or second place. Gene Venzke, who asTounded The Track world wiTh his record- breaking TeaTs every week and who scored The world's record Tor The mile wiTh his sensaTional 4:lO 2-5, was The Thorn in Crowley's side all year round and Frank's greaT eTTorTs were wasTed beside him. ' d oT Bill AT The Millrose Games on February 6, The mile relay Team compose ' V' lvlcArdle, esTablished a new lvlcGeough, Joe Burns, Jack Carey and CapTain inny 287

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D51- c A V I , cgi X fi MANAGER JOE SHEET-TAN COACH PETER WATERS CAPT. VIN MCARDT-E TRACK HTLE The chilly blasTs oT a TrosTy December monTh were once again howling abouT The Tamiliar haunTs oT Jasper Oval, some TorTy odd or more cour- ageous warriors dared To buTTeT The icy winds sweeping down Trom Van CorTlandT in order To respond To Coach PeTer WaTer's call Tor Track candidaTes. Scarcely had The old year rung ouT when The new one was echoed in by The shouTs and cheers oT lvlanhaTTan Track enThusiasTs as They acclaimed The brillianT eTTorTs oT The Jasper one-mile relay Team in The Columbus Council MeeT on January 2. Running Tor The TirsT Time, The relay inauguraTed The new l932 season by rompirig home To win The CaTholic Club and College Mile Relay. The Time regisTered WGS 3:32, Tair enough Tor a beginning buT which could have been beTTered had noT The opposiTion sTalked in The Jasper's wake. Fresh Trom Their recen merely Tor personal saTisTacTion The same Team was piTTed againsT DarTmouTh, repuTed + b f a 1 9 o e one o The sTrongesT on The pine boards This year, in The BosTon K. oT C. Games. This Time compeTiTion was keener and The T vicTory and keenly desirous oT displaying Their proweSS Green and WhiTe warriors were pressed closer Than on The Tormer occasion. l-lowever, Their supremacy SOON 286 Told and lTaTTan. aTTempT. individue Third ple Am eleven n one Tour The Mar The lvlar UP 5 lol runner, , Of secoi breaking 59HSaTioi 9ilOrTs T AT Mceeoi

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I tj E 2 ,V V!! , , . wif, f A N 0. ,' 5 ,f ' f 4 ',,, I-QU LEPIS ED MARTIN VIN McARDLE record unprecedenTed in lvlanhaTTan hisTory. Running againsT T-loly Cross and GeorgeTown The Team Tinished TirsT in The splendid Time oT 3:24 4-5g The TasTesT mile relay record ever Turned in by a Jasper guarTeT, indoors or ouTdoors. ln The special half-mile race Tom Campbell placed second. I Two Trophies'in all became The properTy oT The Green sTars in The Newark K. oT C. Games. Toeing The mark againsT Holy Cross and Fordham in The CaTholic College Relay, Bill McGeough, Jack Seaman, John Boreman and Jack Carey ouT- disTanced The Tield by a good margin, breasTing The Tape aT leasT eighT yards in The van and clocking in aT 3:26 4-I0, a new record Tor The Track. Coming back again in The second race in The mile club and college relay handicap, lvlcArdle, Burns, lvlcGeough and Carey scored again Tor ManhaTTan, beaTing a large Tield and over- Taking N. Y. U. aT The Tape. This quarTeT Tlashed across The mark in 3:25 3-5, having had a TwenTy-Three yard handicap. AlThough iT Tailed To Take TirsT place in any evenT, The lvlanhaTTan Track Team rolled up Ten poinTs To Take TourTh place in The lv1eTropoliTan A. A. U. Championships. The Jaspers capTured Three seconds and a TourTh. Frank McKenna Took second in The I,500 meTers and Jack Ryan second in The 3,000 meTers. The only oTher evenT in which The Green and WhiTe succeeded in scoring was The Medley Relay Race. The varsiTy Team, comprised oT Frank Crowley, Jack Carey, Bill lvlcGeough and AI Morris, led mosT oT The way buT was unTorTunaTely nosed ouT on The home sTreTch by N. Y. U. The Freshman Relay, consisTing oT Adrian Andrews, Bill l-lamilTon, John Thompson and Bill Averill also compeTed in This evenT, placing TourTh. nafure perleifrf prise h5T'i6n SUTTGVST was' ini I155 Tur sTr0f19f 5 highf Smoky l horde 1 rolled uf' order OT Jim WG The line The Union hi and WT groundle Schenec pack ovi low scoi The wiTh Tee place w hy Wall ln Or more heaT H, runner, The TOF TirsT Qdve lv BUT unTi mdfi TQ, 33 To 3 Seasons -V H V H ,AMN -,.---...Q Q.whgWLwQ i i T L T i I T ' T... .. ii i.. if T Wg , 288 ,