Deacons Pace Field in House Track

With time for Straus Trophy scoring running out, Kirkland yesterday built up a stronglead in the filed events of the annual House track meet. Track events will be run off in the Stadium at 3 p.m. today.

The Deacons garnered two first places plus a first-place tie and 27 points to Lowell's 16 1-2 and Eliot's 15. Following the leaders were Winthrop, 12; Adams, 8; Leverett, 2; Dunster, 1-2.

Top performance for Kirkland came, from Jim Gabler, who went 20 feet, 1 1-2 inches in the broad jump and then tied for first in the high jump at 5 feet 7 inches with Harry Furth of Eliot. Nat Howard flipped the shot 46 feet, 5 inches for the other Kirkland first.

Two-and-one-half feet behind Howard was Bill Bacon of Lowell, followed by John Walsh of Winthrop, Don Kaplan of Eliot, and Bill Mobrasten of Lowell. Kaplan also won the discuss at 123 feet, 3 inches and was fifth in the javelin.

Trailing in the discuss were Howard, Bellboys Ray Silver and Ron Ofsthun, and John Stebbins of Adams.

Erman Wins Javelin

Puritan Bill Erman won the javelin. His 143-foot toss was nearly 13 feet ahead of Deacon Frank Manheim's effort, with Gene Kearney of Adams third and Bellboy Oscar DePriest fourth. Roger Davis of Adams was a close second in the broad jump, followed by Ronnie Breslow of Lowell and Dann Troxell of Leverett. Funster John Simpson and Owen Edmonds of Kirkland tied for fifth.

Edmonds tied with Lowell's John Altrochi for fourth in the high jump. Jack Manning of Winthrop took third in the event.