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Stanford's fast Ben Eastman did not even try to qualify for the 400-metre dash. At 800 metres, he was shut out with a fourth place and the race was won by the individual star of the meet, a dark-haired, sinewy Princeton junior named William Bonthron, who did what no runner has done since Cornell's John Paul Jones in 1912, won the 1,500-metre race as well.
Asked about Bonthron the day before the meet, Princeton's Coach Matt Geis said he would run in the 1,500-metre, possibly warm up the day before in the 800-metre heats. Bonthron won his heat in the 800-metre run. Next day he started out by winning the 1,500-metre race in 3:54. An hour later he was ready for a crack field in the 800-metre final. Eastman moved up to the lead in the home stretch, with five men bunched a stride behind him, Bonthron last of the five. While Eastman and Keller of Pittsburgh thought they were fighting for the lead, Bonthron took the outside lane by the Stadium wall and ran past the field to win by four yards. ¶ The night before the meet, High Jumper George Spitz dropped into a Boston cafeteria, asked for a piece of pie. Said the counterman: "Say, do you think you ought to eat pie, with you jumping tomorrow?" Jumper Spitz ate no pie, won the high jump next day with a new intercollegiate record of 6 ft. 6| in. ¶ For the last three years. Fordham's Joe McCluskey has won every race he has entered against undergraduate opponents. Second in many of them—but always beaten by at least 40 yards—has been Jackie Ryan of Manhattan College. Last week, instead of falling back when McCluskey sprinted at the end of the 3,000-metre race, Ryan held on. finally passed McCluskey 250 yards from the finish, went on to win by 25 yards. ¶ Pennsylvania's Bill Carr, still on crutches after his automobile accident two months ago (TIME, March 27), saw Jimmy LuVallé, a lean Negro from the University of California at Los Angeles, win the 400-metre final in 46.7 — time that approached Carr's supposedly unapproachable world's record of 46.2 in last summer's Olympics.