Thinclads Win Seventh Straight Big Three

While New Haven folk hero Calvin Hill signed autographs for little kids, Jim Baker and his teammates ran away with Harvard's seventh straight Big Three indoor track title Saturday afternoon.

Hill, the burly football star, did his stuff in the broad jump, winning with a 24' 5 1/2" leap. But it was Baker who wowed the loudly partisan crowd in Yale's Coxe Cage, winning the mile and two-mile to highlight Harvard's 67-47-23 victory over Yale and Princeton.

Baker's 8:56.9 time in the two-mile shattered the cage and meet records and bettered by nine-tenths of a second the Harvard record set just two weeks ago by Doug Hardin.

The sinewy Englishman looked as strong loping through the last of the race's 16 laps as he did in the first. He churned across the finish line 20 yards ahead of Hardin, in second place. Roy Shaw was third, another 25 yards behind.

Baker and Shaw had shared a victory in the mile earlier in the meet. Having led throughout the race, the two broke the tape together in 4:07.3. Senior Richard Howe took fourth, behind Princeton's Al Anderini.

Two of Harvard's best performances Saturday were non-winning. In the 600, Dave McKelvey fied the Harvard record of 1:10.5 (now held jointly by McKelvey, Jeff Huvelle, and Keith Colburn) but took second place. Yale's Mark Young won the event with a meet record of 1:09.5, one second off the world mark.

In the mile relay, Frank Haggerty, Bob Cook, McKelvey, and Huvelle set a new Harvard mark of 3:18.0, but were outdistanced by the Yale team anchored by Young, which set a meet, cage, and Yale record of 3:16.4.