K. of C. Meet Draws 20 Harriers

Joel Landau, French Anderson, and a quartet of relay runners were the most nearly successful of some twenty Crimson trackmen who participated in the 32nd annual Knights of Columbus games at the Boston Garden Saturday night.

Landau took third in the hurdles event, Anderson was fifth in the Bishop Cheverus 1000-yard run, and the varsity two-mile relay team put up a strong fight before losing out to Yale. The remainder of the Crimson entrants won little glory, but performed respectably and doubtless profited from the experience of competing against some of the world's finest athletes.

Landau's performance was especially fine and indicated that he may be nearly invincible in Ivy League competition. He was beaten only by Charley Pratt of the Philadelphia Pioneer Club and Elias Gilbert of Winston-Salem Teacher's College, both consistent winners in national-level meets.

Among those who finished behind Landau were two men from Yale, three from Brown, and Boston University's Dave Settele.

Unfamiliar With Strategy

Anderson's race was perhaps the most interesting from a tactical standpoint. The Crimson junior was making his first real start at the 1000-yard distance (he's normally a 600-man) and his failure to finish higher than fifth may be ascribed primarily to his unfamiliarity with the strategy of the longer race.

Anderson began well. As the experienced Pioneer Club runner, Harry Bright, took lead, Anderson fell in right behind him. There was considerable jostling at the start and the Crimson ace later said that he "had to kick a couple of people to get to the second position." This is, of course, an inevitable part of any big race; and Anderson indicated that he himself was kicked from behind on nearly every curve for the rest of the race.

Pace Increases

As the runners moved past the quarter-mile mark in 57.5 seconds, Anderson tried to take the lead, but Bright prevented him from doing so by increasing the pace somewhat. These two continued to stay in front and with two laps to go were trailed by Tom Carroll of Yale, Bruce Lockerbie of N.Y.U., Fred Montour of Michigan, and Olympic quarter-mile champion Charlie Jenkins.

At this point, the strain of running a longer race than is his custom began to tell on Anderson. He faltered briefly and was immediately passed by all four of the men who until then had been running behind him. In the last lap, however, he managed to muster a finishing sprint sufficient to overtake Jenkins and he narrowly missed catching Lockerbie, too.

The race was won by Carroll, in the time of two minutes, 13.7 seconds. This, of course, augurs badly for future Crimson track teams, as the Eli is only a freshman this year. Anderson was unofficially clocked in 2:17.

Record Broken

In the Eddie Farrell 500-yard run, in which entries are limited to present undergraduates in New England colleges, the varsity's Al Gordon could do no better than fifth. This was an exceptionally fast race, won by Rudy Smith of Bates in the record time of 58.7 seconds.

Gordon got off to a slow start and was last as the runners swung into the first turn. On the narrow Garden track, this is a nearly hopeless handicap, especially in the shorter races.

The Crimson two-mile relay team finished second in a four way race, losing only to Yale. Bill Thompson led off for the varsity, and after running last for the first part of his half-mile leg, he came back to grab a five-yard lead before handing the baton to captain Pete Reider.

Reider maintained this margin, but Yale's Ed Slowik passed the Crimson's Art Cahn just before the pass to the anchor-men. Slowik's brother John, who previously had finished second in the Farrell 500, fought off several challenges by Ed Martin of the Crimson, and finally pulled away at the gun-lap to win by some ten yards.

The varsity's overall time of eight minutes, and five-tenths of one second was quite good for so early in the season. Particularly notable was the fact that Thompson and Martin both ran their legs in something under two minutes.

The mile relay team was less successful. The Crimson finished fourth in a race against Georgetown, Yale, and Winston-Salem. Joel Landau, Dave Brahms, Pat Liles, and Lee Barnes ran for the varsity with the last two mentioned turning in the best performances.

In the high jump event John deKiewiet did not place, but cleared six feet, two inches. Jack Murphy, another Crimson jumper went out at six feet.

Hank Wente leaped 21 feet, eight inches to gain a third in the broad jump competition, held in the afternoon. Weightmen John DuMoulin and Jim Doty both did fifty-four feet in their event, but could not make the finals against the likes of Olympic champ Hal Connolly and several other fine performers