Elis Take Heptagonals By Winning Mile Relay

Putting on a sizzling burst of speed in the last event of a cold and windy afternoon, Wendell Mottley gave Yale a tie for first in the mile relay and a 62-57 victory over Harvard in the Heptagonals outdoor meet Saturday at Princeton. The Elis, who won their fifth consecutive Heptagonals championship, had been leading Harvard, 57 to 56.

Mottley--clearly the star of the meet--made up an amazing 35 yards in the final lap of the relay as he came from last place to edge out Harvard's anchor man, Bill McAfee. The junior from Trinidad also led the meet record for the 440-yd. run with a time of 47.0 seconds.

Harvard led going into the high jump, but Yale won nine points by taking second, third, and fourth places behind Princeton's John Hartnett, thus gaining a one-point advantage. To win the meet, Harvard would have had to beat Yale in the final relay, even if it did not finish first.

Aggrey Awori was one of two double winners and the individual high scorer in the meet, accounting for 15 points before fatigue forced him out of the competition. Awori took the 100-yd. dash in :10.2 and the 220-yd, run in :21.9, as well as third place in the broad jump.

Ohiri, Hatch Take Events

Other Harvard winners were Chris Ohiri, in the hop, step and jump--47 ft., 3 1/4 in.; Hank Hatch, in the high hurdles, :14.7; and John Bakkensen, in the discus, 158 ft., 11 1/2 in. Like Yale, the Crimson scored points in 12 of the 17 events.

Bill Straub of Army won both the mile and two mile, being clocked at 4:09.5 and 9:04.2, respectively. Straub's time for the two mile was only 0.7 seconds off his Heptagonals record for that distance, and would have been even better if he had not slowed down with 25 yards to go.

Army's John Ahern won his third straight javelin title with a throw of 214 ft., 9 in., and Clarke Ballard took the hammer throw at 185 ft., 4 1/2 in. In other events, Francis Smith of Cornell won the 880, Chuck Mercein of Yale the shot put, and Jim Axtell of Yale the broad jump.