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VlUVdBengals Encounter LittleDifficulty in ConferenceDua? Meet With RedbirdsEdwardsville’s productive varsity and junior varsity thin-clads Friday continued to attract areawide attention by blazing their, way to Southwestern conference victories at Alton in a dual meet with the Redbirds.The varsity charges of Bernard Isselhardt and Cliff Cromer walked off with a 66-52 triumph white the Orange and Black juniors trounced their opposition, 64*39.The varsity captured eight of 14 first place events while the younger Tigers emerged victorious in nine of 12 outings.The Bengals of this city gained top recognition in the 120-yard high hurdles, 100 yard dash, 440 yard jaunt, 680, 220, mile relay, discus, pole vault — ---------------------------Varsity Summaryand the high jump. Alton massaged to take the mile event, 88(1 relay. 180 low hurdles, 880 run, shotput and broad jump.Tlie local spikemen fashioned a dean sweep in the 100 yard clash, von by Sam Johnson with teammates Fleming Bradshaw and Pat R Hassens breaking the tape in that' .(E)“?,i01'srdcr, Johnson’s time in the eon- ”° t°® ay~fKon-l:41.0.! (til), Keller (A)- -54:5.120 High Hurdles—Mixon (E), Eaton (A), Monica! (A)—-18:!), 100—Johnson, Bradshaw, Cas-sens (all E)—10:7.Mile—Kid welt (A), Lewis (E),ury event was 10:7.The EHS juniors walked off vilh the SO and 100 yard dashes, i80 relay, 880 yard run, discus, ihotput, high jump, pole vault and lie broad jump. The youngsters nade it one-two-three in the 50 utt'd event when Jerry Weiler, lobby White and Don Baeser inished in that order. Weiler was docked at 8:3.Since the current track and field icmester got under way April 3, Sdwardsville finished second in he triangular meet with winner Iranite City and Madison, trounc'd Wood River, 72%*45%, and ran •oughshod over Lincoln of East it, Louis, 85%-32V5i. In the triang-ilur program, Granite City knitted lt;6 Vs points while EHS collected i2V2 • with Madison managing 16 ligits.Jsselhrirdt St Co, will invade Belleville for a league dual with he Maroons Tuesday at 3:45 p.m. rhe squad is scheduled to partici-mte in the Maplewood, Mo., re-ay preliminaries Thursday at 4440— Casscns (E), Untcrbrink180 Low Hurdles—Hardin : A), Bradshaw (E, Howerton (E) — 21:9.880—Kid well (A), Vaughn (E), Jackson - {E)— 2:15,5.220—Johnson (E), Sehoeck iA), Watkins (A)—23:8.■ Mile Relay—Unterbrink, Vaughn, Jackson, Cussens (E)— 3:43.DUcut—Harper (E), Vieth (A), Rued in (A)—131*0.Shotput—Vieth (A), Butler (A), Harper (E—45-10.Broad Jump—Eaton (A), Jansen (A), Bradshaw (E)—18-17%.Pol* Vault—Reed and Pinkas (both E), tie, and Eaton, Walker (both A), tie—10-0.High Jump—Jackson (E), Vaughn (E) and Eaton (A), tie — 5-6.p.m. and the Maplewood relays Saturday at 2 p.m.Junior Summiri**:120 Low Hurd!**—Middleton (A), Silas (E), White (E~17:8.58—Weiler, White, Baeser (all'EM c.n
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Edwardsville Intelligencer
Edwardsville, Illinois, US
Sat, Apr 14, 1956
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