TUESDAY, APRIL 26 1955 lions Impress Thinclads Grab 3 Wins In Ohio Track Spectacle By ROY WILLIAMS Penn State's trackmen again showed the heavy splurge of power Saturday at the Ohio State Relays held in Columbus, Ohio, that they exhibited,when they walloped Navy and Penn one week before in the season opener. The Lions notched two firsts, a second, and two fourth-place finishes in the relay events plus a first, two seconds, and a fourth in the individual events. The Lions' three victories were in the shuttle hurdle relay, the 440-yard relay, and the 120 high hurdles. Bill Youkers came within one tenth of a second - of tying the hio Relay record of :14.3 set in 931 by Jack Keller and tied by Joe McNulty, Illinois, in 1952, when he notched a :14.4 time. Sophomore Rod Perry was sec ond The Shuttle Hurdle relay squad with Gary Seybert, Bob Young. Youkers, and Perry landed first spot with a 1:01.7 tima. Perry scored a :14.3 Jima on the final leg as the Lions cams within two tenths of a second of tying the Relay and Stadium record of 1:01.5 set. In 1952 by the United States Air Force teem. Don Austin, Dave Leather, Art Pollard, and Jack Morin com bined their efforts to shove the Lions into first place in the 440 relay with a :42.6 time. Michigan State, Indiana, Bowling Green, and Baldwin Wallace followed in that order. ' Michigan State edged the Lions by four tenths of a second in the 'BBO-yard relay. The Lions, with Morin, Leathem, Austin, and Pol lard working the four laps, pulled up with a 1:26.8 time while Michi gan State set a new Ohio Relay record with a 1:26.4 time. Pollard raced to a :20.2 time in the final leg in an effort to edge the Spar tans. The Lions were fourth in the two-mile and distance medley relays. Michigan University., set to meet the Lions in a dual meet in two weeks, won the distance meclly in 10:08.5 with Laird Sloan, Dan Walter,Hobe Jones. and John Moule. Pitt was sec ond. and Miami of Ohio third w/th Penn State fourth in 10:19.8. Matz, Doug Moorhead, Al Ter rill, and skip Slocum were track Coach Chick Werner's quartet choice for the two-mile relay. In diana copped first in. 7:42.8 fol lowed by Ohio, Miami of Ohio, and Penn State which registered `a. '7:58.5 clocking. Second place in the shotput and • discus went to Penn State's Rosey Grier. Herb Hollowell, sophomore, was fourth in the hog = step-and jum Gr ier, who took second behind Tom Jones, the 260-pound NC AA champion shotputter, with a 54'6" heave—more than a foot better than his opening first place heave of 53'4" at Navy. Jones copped first with 57'8 1 / 2 " to set a new meet and stadium mark. In the discus, Jones, Miami of Ohio, heaved the plate 156'3 1 / 2 ". Grier was second with 152'10341". and Blockson fifth with a 144'3%" heave. Hollowell - Was fourth in the hot-step-and jump, in his first try at the event, by covering 44'- 3 1 /e in overall distance. In the mile Ted Garrett was sixth with 4:25 and John Chill riid 13th with 4:37. Ron Coleman unattached won it with a 4:11.4. d Pitt, Michigan State, and Mich , gam University' held most of the attention in the sprint medley and the mile relay. In the sprint med ley Pitt rewrote the Ohio Relay record with 3:23. Pitt's fireball Arnie Sowell clipped off a 1:49.2 time in the final leg to help erase the 1.052 relay record of 3:29.5. Michigan University took its second first place win in the mile relay in 3:14.7 to erase the Ohio Relay mark of 3:16.6 and edge Pitt, which was second. with 3:14.5. Sloan, Dave Ress ler, Dick Flodink and Grant Scruggs—running for Michigan THE PERFECT PIZZA SALLY'S MR DRIVER AD 7-2373 —in breaking the Ohio Relay mark also tied the Southern California Stadium record of 3:14.7. Sowell was again the anchor man for Pitt, but the speedy jun ior was .unable to overcome the lead of Michigan's anchorman, al though he ran a :46.7 in the final quarter mile. 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