Sears Nips Follows.

With only inches separating them
after. sprinting the last three laps,
Ray Sears, Butler University, nipped:
John Follows of the New York A. C.:
in the final strides to win the two-
mile run with Joe McCluskey, Ford-
ham ace, ten yards back in third
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of 9:14.2 was slow in .comparison
with Sears’s' American, record, time.
of 9:07.4, made in winning the event
last year.

As expected the race developed
into a three-man affair after Sears
grabbed the lead from Frank Crow-
ley of the New York A. C., nine
laps from home.

- Follows Goes Out in Front.

As the Butler ace jumped to the
front he was followed by Follows

and McCluskey: in that order. They
raced closely bunched until with
only three laps to go, Follows, the

 

 

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Cunningham Flashes to Front, |

Two laps from home Venzke’s mar- |
gin was four yards and within one-—
half lap it had been reduced to two
yards. As the bell sounded for the
final dash around the boards, Glenn
pulled up on even terms and flashed
he fro Gene tried to keep!
pace, but Cunningham is not to be |
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William Ray of Manhattan College
showed the way home in. the ‘half-
mile run in 1:57.1, beating Kenneth
Gilmore of Columbia by two yards,
with Edward J. A. Brown Jr. of
Georgetown third. Elton Brown,
who ran in the 1,000-yard race, found ©
the double effort too great and
dropped out a lap from the finish
while trailing far back of the leaders.

Coming back after losing to Cun-—
ningham in the 1,000 yards, Horn-
bostel staged a great finish to beat
out. his former Indiana teammate,
Ivan Fuqua, in the 600-yard run,

Fights Off Fuqua’s Challenge.
Far back in the seven-man. field
for three of the four‘laps, Hornbos- |

  
  

a contending position a lap from
home and then with a brilliant sprint
caught, James Elliott of Villanova in
the backstretch and finally fought
off Fuqua’s challenge in the closing

\strides..

John Wolff of Manhattan was
third, Tim Ring of Holy Cross fourth
and Elliott fifth. Milton Sandler,
winner of the event last year, never
was a contender.

Hornbostel was timed in 1:12.7 as
compared to the’-world’s record of
1:11.38 he set in winning the same |
event at' the Millrose games earlier
in the season. |