Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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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 ,

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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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T fgT fi3YT3Qa 5 aixfihq, iw' . , S ,f ,. ...J and Tile :ial lark olic 9uT- The n in irns. iver- ving 'earn hips. id in ivenT The orris. Y. U. rpson S353 ll'4iYll,,.li 1 CRUSS-COUNTRY lTl-l undoubTedly one oT The besr cross-counTry Teams in The making, Coach PeTer WaTers nursed secreT ambiTions Tor his l93l program. JusT whaT The naTure oT Those ambiTions were, would be hard To say, buT iT one were able To peneTraTe inTo The inner researches oT his mind he mighT noT have been aT all sur- prised To see a plan unTolding iTselT which Tended To place cross-counTry aT Man- haTTan on a plane equal To The TinesT in The EasT. NoT ThaT lVlanhaTTan has ever suTTered Trom loss oT presTige in This sporT. On The conTrary, ever since The sporT was'inTroduced some seven years back by iTs Tamous coach, The Green and WhiTe has Turned ouT some wonderTul Teams and Tor The pasT Tew years has been growing sTronger and sTronger. BuT whaT PeTe WaTers did inTend To do was To secure even h d T h'l nio ed. a higher noTch in The hall oT Tame Than a Jasper Team a ers w ie e T y CapTained by The sTalwarT Edgar lvlarTin, The Green conTingenT invaded The mok liTTle Town oT BeThlehem Pa and scored a mosT decisive vicTory over a surprised s y , ., horde oT Lehigh runners. Taking The TirsT Tive places, The lvlanhaTTan speedsTers Thus . . . . Th rolled up The perTecT score oT I5-40. An auspicious beginning Tor The season. e order oT Tinish Tor The Tour and Tour-TenThs miles was Jack Ryan, Frank McKenna, ' ' ' ' ' ' D lvl hall crossed Jim Walsh, Al lvlorris and Bill Sim. All were Timed in .'Z6.l2. an ars The line in sevenTh posiTion wiTh Joe Burns Tollowing. The Tollowing week The Jaspers lined up againsT a sTrong, deTermined band oT Union harriers who had sTill To TasTe deTeaT Trom a lvlanhaTTan Team. BuT The Green ' d T b and WhiTe squad was in a revenging mood ThaT day and TorecasTs prove o e groundless as The game and inspired' Team Trom Van CorTlandT smoThered The SchenecTad lads whom They Trounced easily. Ryan and lvlclienna again led The Y pack over The hills while Walsh, lvlorris, Campbell and lvlarTin helped To compile The low score oT 20-35. The lVleTropoliTan Championship Tound lvlanhaTTan The runner-up To N. Y. U. d dT Th wiTh Teams compeTing Trom Columbia, Fordham and C. C. N. Y. Thir an our place wenT To Ryan and McKenna, respecTively, while sixTh posiTion was garnered by Walsh. ln The l. C.-Four-A Championships lvlanhaTTan p ace s or more universiTies by a good margin. The splendid showing oT Jackie Ryan, who beaT l-lallowell oT l-larvard Tor sixTh posiTion, The highesT ever aTTained by a Jasper runner, was success enough as Tar as The lVlanhaTTan runners were concerned. ' T ' l T'e The Tinal meeTing oT The season, The lvl. A. S. C. A. A., resulTed in a ripe I Tor TirsT place beTween Jack Ryan, Frank McKenna, and Jim Walsh. This dead heaT gave lvlanhaTTan The individual Middle ATlanTic TiTle Tor The Third consecuTive year. BUT unTorTunaTely The Team TiTle wenT To AlTred College, who Torced over a Tull Tive- ' ' ' b Th arrow margin oT one poinT man Team in The TirsT Ten To reTain The Team TiTle y S V1 - ' A d o was concluded one oT The mosT successTul 33 To 34 Tor The Green harriers. n S seasons in The annals oT The Green hisTory. l d ixTh, leading aT leasT Ten xx, xy f fax -41 1 T , i Q .i , if , T 1. sxvfff 1 l l l i 3 1 l l i --mem, , 289 .23