Donahue Yields Position On H-Y Track Team to Shields

Donald A. Donahue '41, aco Crimson hurdler and a member of the Yale-Harvard track team which will meet an Oxford-Cambridge cinder combine at White City, England, on July 15 has withdrawn from the high hurdles in order that Jay Shields, Yale captain elect, may make the trip and compete in the event.

Although Donahue won both barrier events in the Yale-Harvard meet on May 13, and was therefore picked to run both races in England, he withdrew from the highs in favor of the flashy Eli champion who beat him in the Heptagonal meet on May 20.

Donahue will compete in the 220 yard low hurdles, in which he will be teamed up with Roger S. Schafer '41.

Brilliant Eli Hurdler

One of Yale's most brilliant hurdlers of recent years, Shields took second in the 1937 International Meet. This year, however, he started slowly and finished only third in the Crimson-Blue dual meet behind Donahue and Dick Osborn of Yale.

In the Heptagonal Meet, however, he hit his stride and smashed through to a victory in the highs; Donahue, injured in the low hurdle trials, finished fourth. In the I. C. 4-A, meet Shields finished second; Donahue did not compete.

Donahue's record 14.6 second clocking in the highs at New Haven on May 13 was disallowed because of a favoring wind.