Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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THQE We Mr. Eastment watches 0'Connell pass the baton to Comerford in their Laughlin days. All are now Manhattan men. The two mile relay champions at the National A.A.U. Meet at Madison Square Garden on Feb- ruary 23. Rienzo, Comerford, O'Cormell and Walsh. The Manhattan Distance Medley Relay team that capped first place in the Penn Relays on April 26. Walsh, Sickinger, 0'Connell and Gorman.

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0'Connell trailing Eckert ln the National A.A.U. Meet on February 23. Manhattan took first 0'CONNELL place. -V ww-- Gerard Klingler, Jasper freshman, placed third in the 600 yard run which was won by the Violet James Gilhooley. Second place went to Gilhooley's teammate Milt Smith and Jim Caskey and Bill Ganner, both representing' Kings Point took fourth and hfth places respectively. Charlie Donahue took third place in the broad jump with a leap of 20'l0 . Homer Gillis, Violet ace won the event by doing' 23'3M and his teammates Royal Cher- nock and Art Daigon took fourth and fifth places with leaps of Z0'7L5 and 20'6.M respectively. St. john's one man track team, Alex Borush took second place with a leap of 2l'9 . The Jasper two mile relay team of George Cullen, Paul Tiernan, John Flinter and Ignatius Rienzo won their event in grand fashion. A tired N.Y.U. team, which came in second was 120 yards in the rear. Columbia was third and 27 Fordham copped fourth place. The Jas- pers were clocked in 8:19. Manhattan's one mile relay team was less fortunate than the two mile team. They finished fourth to N.Y.U., Fordham and Colum- bia. Kings Point was fifth. The Violets covered the mile in 3 1238. A dramatic note was added by the one mile and two mile lC4A champions who both ran in the two mile run. F.d VValsh, the one mile champ defeated his roommate Ed O'Toole by an eyelash. Walsli who led most of the way slowed down his pace to allow his pal to catch up to him and thus turn in a dead heat. However, the judges said that something' of VValsh's went over the line hrst and they gave him the unwanted victory. The 9:38 turned in by WValsh was faster than the time turned in by 0'Toole in the lC4A Cham- pionships. Darwin Bruce of N.Y.U., John Mayes of Fordham, and Art

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Mundree of Columbia finished in that order behind the Jaspers. Tom Comer- ford and Ignatius Rienzo placed first and second in the 1000 yard run. Tom lin- ished eighteen yards ahead of his team- mate who surprised track fans by his victory over Frank Martin of N.Y.U. Joel Benson of Kings Point and Schirmer Zettler of N.Y.U. placed fourth and fifth respectively. P01111 Relays For the first time in four years Man- hattan competed in the Penn Relays and they took two titles, the distance medley relay and the four mile relay. John Gor- man ran the hrst leg for the Jasper quartet, and turned in a 0252.5 quarter which was enough to keep up with the pace setters. Phil O'Connell ran the half mile in 1 :56.7, and built up a fifteen yard lead against N.Y.U.'s Henry Eckert. Sickinger, however, let this lead dwindle in the lirst lap of the three-quarter mile leg and was overtaken by Frank Martin of the V iolets. After having set the pace for the majority of the leg Martin was passed by Fred in the last 220 yards and he fell back seventeen yards. WValsh, the Jasper anchorman took the baton from Sickinger for the mile, which he did in 4:23.7 and beat the N.Y.U. ace by fifty yards to the tape. The time of the medley was 1.0 :28.7. The Jasper four mile relay 2 team had a little difficulty in their event. Fred Sickinger led off for the Iaspers against Henry Eckert and at the termina- tion of the first mile, the Kelly Green was two yards in the lead. John Flinter run- ning the second leg, had some trouble with Darwin Bruce of N.Y.U., and he fell back twelve yards at the start of the third leg. Phil O'Connell fell back six more yards in his mile behind Frank Dixon, but anchorman Ed Walsh cut into the lead, which at this time was in the hands of Frank Martin, and not only passed the Violet but he won the race by twenty-tive yards. The times of the Jas- per tracksters in the order they ran were : 4:35.9, 4:35.4, 4233.4 and 4:24.l. The time of the event was 18 :07.5.Manhattan failed to place in the money in the other three events in which she was entered. The sprint medley team of Ignatius Rienzo, John Gorman, Paul Tiernan and Gerry Alnwick finished fourth. The one mile relay team of Gorman, Klingler, Reynolds and Alnwick placed fourth in one section of the two part race which was decided on a time basis. They did not qualify for a place in the final. A tired team of Rienzo, Sickinger, Comerford and Walsh failed to place in the two mile relay. Manhattan was the only college to cop more than one title, with the excep- tion of the University of lllinois squad which won four events.