Track Team Cuts Eli's 28-Meet Win Streak by Topping Favorites, 72-68

Jaakko Mikkola's trackmen handed the heavily favored team from Yale their first defeat in 28 dual meets in New Haven Saturday by a 12-68 score. It was the Crimson who had last downed Yale in 1947, too.

Deciding event of the afternoon was the very last one, the mile relay. Tom McGrath got an early lead of about eight yards. Dick Packard added distance, clinching the race, and leaving Ronnie Berman and Ed Grutzner to bring the squad in first, three seconds under its time against Dartmouth last week.

Bob Twitchell, making the best times of his career, scored a double victory. He did the 120 high hurdles in 14.9 seconds, and the 620 lows in 24.

Closest race of the nine victories rung up by the Crimson was the 880 yard run. Herman trailed by 30 feet until the last 200 yards. His final burst brought him in an easy 30 feet in front of the nearest blue clad for his best 880 time--1:156.6.

The field men put on an equally inspired performance. Bob Ray hurled the shot 49 feet, 3 1/2 inches, to better his highest previous mark by a foot and a half. Fred Ravreby tossed the long javelin 177 feet 9 1/2 inches for the longest distance of the afternoon, and Al Wilson threw the discus 151 feet, 5 1/2 inches to take his event for the varsity.

Freshman Gil Murray tied Wilson's second place shot put throw at 48 feet, Navy at the half mile, and then put on a power ten to go from a half length behind Penn to first place. From then on, the Harvard second boat coasted in at a 31, again with no sprint. The winning time was 6:45.

In the 150-pound regatta at Cambridge, Yale's varsity went out to an early lead on Harvard and Princeton, and finished one and a quarter lengths ahead of the Crimson to win the Goldthwait Cup. The Tigers were a length and a quarter behind Haines' oarsmen. The Eli winning time for the Henley course was 7:13.3.

The 'fifties jayvee race was the closest of the day, with Yale coming from two lengths behind Harvard to win by four feet over the Crimson. Harvard jumped to an early lead and seemed to be a cinch to win, but in the last half mile the Crimson could'nt raise the stroke from a 32, and Yale put on a furious sprint to win.

The Yale freshmen won easily over Princeton in the best time of the fifties' regatta, 7:00. Harvard was over three lengths behind the winners