Track
Harry Hillman's track team has shown unexpected power in its outdoor season, taking third honors in the Heptagonal Games at Cambridge on May 9, giving Harvard a real fight in the dual meet which the Crimson won at Hanover, 77 1/2 to 57 1/2, and downing Holy Cross during the Green Key Prom festivities, 69% to 651/,. The success of the Green trackmen is largely attributable to the trio of Tony Geniawicz, intercollegiate shotput champion, Johnny Hoffstetter, quarter-mile and middle-distance star, and Jack Donovan, sophomore hurdler and dash man.
Hoffstetter captured both the 400- and 800-meter races in the dual meet with Harvard on May 16, while Geniawicz won first 111 the shot and second in the discus, and Donovan took second behind Harvard's sensational Milt Green in both hurdle events. Donovan ran into tough luck in the low-hurdles race when he led the Crimson captain all the way and fell just inches short of the tape. All together, Green captured three firsts, winning the broad jump in addition to both hurdles.
Stew Whitman put aside his tennis racket long ago to spring the biggest surprise of the day when he won the 3000-meter run from Worth and Playfair of Harvard. Johnny Johnson won the aoo-meter dash for the Green, and Dick Brister and Sam Wharton figured in a four-way tie for first in the pole vault. Dartmouth had five firsts and six seconds to Harvard's nine firsts and eight seconds, and garnered ten thirds to four for the Crimson.
Dartmouth wasn't conceded much of a chance in the Heptagonal Games, so the Big Green's third place was the biggest upset of the day. The Indians scored points behind Harvard's 64*4 and Cornell's 45V5, to finish ahead of Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, and Columbia. The Green relay teams starred by winning both the 400- and 1600-meter races. In the latter, Hoffstetter covered the second leg in 47 seconds to turn a 10-yard lag into a 9-yard advantage, and his mates maintained this edge to the finish. Marsh Roper, Don Sutherland, and Captain Lane Donovan were the other members of the quartet. The 400-meter team included Warren King, Bob Button, Ken Lynch, and Johnny Johnson as anchor man. Their unofficial record of 41.8 seconds was disallowed because of favoring winds. Tony Geniawicz captured the shot-put with a new meet record of 49 feet 4 inches, and Jack Donovan contributed a second in the high hurdles and a third in the lows. Johnson finished second in the 100-meter dash and Hoffstetter had to be content with fourth in the 800-meter run.
In the Holy Cross meet, Hoffstetter turned in a winning time of 47.8 seconds in the quarter mile to lower his own College record by a fifth of a second, and Jack Donovan lowered the nine-year-old record of Monty Wells by a tenth of a second when he covered the 220-yard low hurdles in 24 seconds flat. Geniawicz was again the victor in the shot, while other Green firsts were registered by Ballantyne in the hammer, Ferris in the high jump, Wharton in the pole vault, and Donovan in the high hurdles.
