Track Stars Lose in K of C Meet

After a sweep of the field events in the afternoon, Harvard made a deceptively poor showing at the Knights of Columbus Track Meet Saturday night. It seems to happen every winter.

In the Tufts cage, rarely the scene of exceptional performances, Harvard's three first place efforts were par for the course. Ted Bailey took the 35 lb. weight throw with a 57' 3" heave. Marty Beckwith won the broad jump at 22' 8", and Rick Delone beat teammate Sarge Nichols by 2 inches, putting the shot 53' 4".

Don Kirkland skidded to a second place at the wire in the 500, a good 20 yard behind Yale's Wendell Motley. Kirkland let his unheralded opponent go far ahead at the start, and was never in contention. Motley later ran a brilliant lead-off leg to win the mile relay for Yale; Harvard finished an uncontesting third in that event, behind Princeton.

Running against Yale's Bobby Mack in the featured George C. Carens Memorial college mile, Mullin set the pace almost all the way. But after a 2:03 half, he could not keep it hot enough to burn Mack out of the race; and the short, solidly-built Eli star kicked his way to victory in 4:10.8. Mullin faded to third, finishing in front of his teammate Ed Hamlin in 4:16.6. It was his third loss to Mack on the boards in as many tries.

Two publicized performers. John Thomas of B.U. and Bruce Kidd, the Canadian two-miler, were toppled in their specialties. Thomas, unable to concentrate in the high jump, lost on the bases of fewer misses to Lt. Bob Gardner. Both were stymied at 6' 8". The Crimson's Marty Beckwith was eliminated at 6' 2".