Runners' Lose To Yale But '56 Triumphs

For the first time in three years the Harvard-Yale track meet finished according to the dope book-with Yale ahead 82 2/3 to 57 1/4.

The Ells took both sprints, the 440, the 830, and the mile-only in the two mile where the Crimson's Hal Gerry outran the Blue's Frie self in 10:03 did the Crimson break through.

But the freshmen won 78 1/2 to 62 1/2 and Bon Twitchell took two firsts and two seconds, and Bob Rittenburg took a first, two seconds, a third, and ran on the second place mile relay team.

Bob Current threw the hammer 159 feet 9 1/4 inces to take the other Crimson first place.

Twitchell won the 120 high hurdles in 15.2, with Rittenburg second. And he won the 220 low hurdles in 23.5, with Yale's Larry Reno second and Rittenburg third. He took second and Rittenburg third. He took second behind Yale's former polio victim Hank Thresher in both the 100 and 220. Thresher wasn't bothered by anything as he did a sizzling 9.8 in the 100, and 20.8 in the 100, and 20.8 in the 220. The latter would have been a record except for the back wind.

Misses First

Rittenburg won the high jump with a leap of six feet two, his best outdoor performance this season. He placed be hind the Eli's Dick Goss in the board jump by one and 5-8 inches. Goss cleared 22 feet 7 inches. Bob Mello also cleared 22 feet, but took third.

Alan Howe was second in the 440, behind Yale's Rose Price, who did 49.1, Whitely Black was second in the hammer throw, while Phil Pratt was second in the discus. Jack Richards took another Crimson second, in the 880, with Yale's Joe Albanese first in 1:57.

Gil Murray took second in the shot, while Emil San Soucie was third in the two mile. The Crimson mile relay team of Phil Meyers, Richards, Rittenburg and Howe was second behind Yale's 3:22. Thresher and Price sparked the Ell quartet.

Mello also got another second place in the pole vault, with the Ells' Jack Donegan, a sophomore, clearing the bar at 13 feet for a first place. Mello's best effort was 12 feet 6 inches.