Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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Phil Einsmann clearing the bar for an eleven fool pole vault in the lC4A Meet af Madison Championships at Madison Square Gar- den. The teams won third place honors, which was quite a feat for such a newly organized squad. Army won the cham- pionshipsg N.Y.U. placed second and Navy and Dartmouth finished fourth and fifth respectively. The one mile champion, Ed Walsli, led a large field to the tape by forty yards. VV alter Soltow of N.Y.U. set the pace early in the race but his lead was slowly cut into by Walsh, who finally passed him and built up quite a sizeable lead. Navy's Nick Smusyn placed third. Walsli was clocked in 4:l9.4. Another crowned champion, Eddie O'Toole, won the two mile run by the same margin as VValsh won the mile run. Ed lapped the fifth place man, Frank Tucker of Army. His strong and steady pace was too much for the other contestants and he won with ease. Fred Knauss of the Military Academy placed second: john Hanley of Dartmouth was thirdg and Alex Jordan. -.21 the Violet entry was fourth. The winning time was 92472. The third lC4A champion, Fred Sick- inger, was the victor in the 600 yard run, being clocked in l :15.8. At the beginning of the race, Fred was knocked off the track and he bruised his shoulder and arm. However, the race was restarted and Sickinger managed to get off only slightly hampered. He took the lead position late in the race and was never headed. Maurice Callender, the other half of N.Y.U.'s twins finished a close second and Army's John Hammack and Allen Brown finished third and fourth, a short distance behind Callender. Man- hattan's young freshman, Tom Comer- ford, took third place in the 1000 yard run. Stan Callender won the event in 21172. Bernie Conor of Army, Comer- ford, Serrie of M.I.T., and Hall of the Naval Academy followed Callender to the tape in that order. The two mile relay EINSMANN Square Garden.

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National f1.f1.U. Clzallipiolzslzzfps 1n the National A.A.U. Champion- ships at Madison Square Garden, the Jasper team placed in the four events in which they were entered, winning two and placing third in the other two. Fred Sickinger won the 1000 yard run by out- lasting Stan Callender and Bill McGuire, the latter who ran for the 69th Regiment Armory. Callender passed McGuire in the last lap, but was unable to come with- in two yards of Fred at the finish. Sick- inger's time was 2:15.8. The two mile relay was won by the quartet of Rienzo, Comerford, O'Connell and VValsh. Rienzo got off to a poor start and passed the baton to Comertord in the third position, thirty yards behind the eaders. Galloping for the full half mile, F0111 overcame the disadvantage and gave 3'Connel1 the lead by five yards for the hird leg. Phil had a little trouble with 272 O'TOOLE Ed O'Tooie finishing his two miie sfinf in 9:47.2 of fhe lC4A Meet on March 2 at Madison Square Garden. Henry Eckert of N .Y .U. but he managed to retain the lead and gave the stick to VValsh for the anchor leg. Xfxf3.1S1'1 won going away and gave N .Y .U. its second straight defeat at this distance. VValsh, also ran the one mile run and placed third behind Les MacMitchell and Tom Quinn of the N.Y.A.C. Ed had the lead at the three quarter mark but he was forced to relinquish it to 1V1acMitchell who then had a tough time beating Quinn. Ed's time of 4:19.81 was enough to beat Marcel 1-Iansenne, crack French miler. Ed O,Toole linished third behind Forest Efaw and Ben Mannix in the three mile run. Holding second place through the major portion of the race, Ed could not cope with the final kick of Ben Mannix. Efaw was timed in 142401. IC4A C11al11zfJri011s1z1IfJs The Jasper track squad gave a more than satisfactory showing in the 1C4A

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team placed second to the N .Y.U. team. The reason for their failure to win this event was undoubtedly due to the fact that each runner had run in a previous event. The final team standing was as follows: .Xriny 5312, N.Y.U. 35, Man- hattan 22, Navy 2195, and Dartmouth IZM. 1946 A llllvlltll W zf1Ltc1' Board Track and Field ClZClIlZf7Ii01lS1L1'f7S of the .7lJct1'0p0lim1L T11-Zfl?1'COUCgliClllC A zflzlctzfc Ass0c1'at'1701z. The Kelly Green finished second in the winter board track and field champion- ships at Colunibia's South Field. N.Y.U. the victor scored 81 points to the Jaspers 47. Of the thirteen events the Violets won eight, Manhattan won four and there was a triple tie for the other title, the running high jump. Phil Einsniann was the big gun for Manhattan having scored ten points. He won the pole vault by crossing the bar at ll feet to defeat Bill McAllister of Fordham who was second and Oliver Greene of Kings Point who was third. ln the high hurdles Phil followed john Nelson of N.Y.U. to the finish line. Toni Byrnes, another jasper, placed fourth. Columbials Don Fennelly was third and Bob VVOllll1E11'1 of Brooklyn College was fifth. The time of this event was 0:O7.7. Phil's tenth point was won in the running high jump in which he leaped 5'8 . First place was a triple tie between Alex Borusch of St. John's, Gerard Dannenberg' of N.Y.U. and YV alter Haukes of Columbia, all of whom cleared the bar at 5'lO . Fourth place went to Bill McAllister of Fordham who did 5'9 . The one mile run was the closest race of the afternoon, with Henry Eckert of N.Y.U. nosing out Phil O'Connel1 by one yard. The winner's time was 42281. EINSMANN 274 Phil Einsmann clearing 5' 8 in the Meiropolifan l.C.A.A. ln this meef, Phil scored ten points for Manhattan.