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WELLS SETS WORLD RECORDFOR 45 YARD HURDLES

Competing in the Knights of Columbus indoor track meet in Boston January 22, E. Montgomery Wells '28 gave one of the most remarkable hurdling exhibitions on record when in three heats out of the four in which he ran he set a new world's record of 5 4-5 seconds for the 45 yard high hurdle race. Twice in preliminary heats and again in the finals, which he won, Wells raced over the barriers a fifth of a second under the time which has stood for years as the record for this event.

Another victory was scored for Dartmouth when the Green's one mile relay team defeated the teams of Boston College and New Hampshire in a race in which the Dartmouth team made the best time of the evening. McCall and Moore, of Dartmouth, both went to the finals of the 40 yard invitation dash but were defeated by Miller, of Harvard, who ran within one fifth of a second of the world's record. Moody, of Dartmouth took second place in the high jump for the New England championship and third place in the handicap event.

B. A. A. Games

Equalling his new world's record established two weeks previously, Wells '28 won the 45 yard hurdle event of the B. A. games held in Boston February S. He was closely followed by Black '29, fullback of the 1926 football team, who took second place in the event ahead of Collier of Brown and Ballantyne, of Harvard. T. L. Maynard '29 was Dartmouth's only other scorer in the games, placing second in the high jump with a leap of six feet two inches. A spectacular two-mile relay race was won from Dartmouth by Syracuse when Cook, the Syracuse quarter-miler spurted away from Swope, Dartmouth's anchor man, at the end of a race in which- the lead had several times changed places.

E. E. Myers '20 competing in the pole vault event for the Illinois A. C. established an held for a few minutes the world's indoor pole vaulting title when he cleared the bar at 13 feet 1 5-8 inches, one-eighth of an inch higher than the mark reached a few days previously in New York by Harrington, of the B. A. A. The spectacular 13 feet 7 1-4 inch vault accomplished a few minutes later by Carr, of Yale, overshadowed the performance of the former Dartmouth star.

Dartmouth's newest hurdle champion gained additional honors in New York February 14 when, competing in the N. Y. A. C. games he equalled the world's record of 7 3-5 seconds for the 60 yard hurdle event in the first heat of this race. In the final heat he romped to the tape fully five yards ahead of his nearest competitor in 7 4-5 seconds.