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Boston Triple AAU Track VictorIowa Runners Win 15 Places(Special to The Dally Iowan)CEDAR FALLS — Marcellus Boston, freshman dash ace, was one -of two SUI students to win Iowa AAU outdoor track and field titles in the meet held here Mon day afternoon. Lon Gault, a graduate student was the other first place winner.Boston, who entered “unattached, Iowa City” because of a Western conference regulation barring freshmen from competition, won the 100 and 220-yard dashes and the broad jump. Gault snapped the tape first in the 440-yard dash and was third in the 220.Besides Boston and Gault, Iowa students captured two seconds, six thirds, two fourths and a fifth.Mel Rosen, the onlf Hawk varsity man entered in the meet, placed third in the 880-yard run and fourth in the 440. It was in the 440 that Rosen showed his best. Running last for the first 220-yards, Rosen started to make his bid and passed DeReef Greene, Iowa freshman, lt;on the lsst turn to finish a half a stride behind third.In the two-mile run, Bill Snook and Jack Davis, a pair of freshmen distance runners, pulled out to an apparent commanding lead on the first lap. They held their lead until after the mile mark when they were forced to give way, Snook finishing third and Davis fourth.The mile run gave an Iowa entrant one second. Davis ran close to Loras academy’s miler, Bill Conrady, for the first half(Daily Iowan Photo by EVerett Montgomery)THE FIRST OF THREE TITLES won by Marcellus Boston in the Iowa AAU track and field meet at Cedar Falls Monday afternoon. Partially blotted by Boston is DuWayne Dietz, another Iowa freshman, who finished third. Boston followed up his victory in the 100 with wins in the 220 and broad jump. He ran as “unattached, Iowa City” because of Big Ten rule which prevents freshmen from competing under school colors.but well into the third lap the Loras star began to stretch out his lead. Davis made a great bid on the last curve but was unable to catch the long-striding Duhawk.The other second came in thehalf-mile with Don Spaan edging Rosen out of the number two spot.Charles Darling, freshman weight man, had enough power to give him a pair of thirds in the shot put and discus.Speedway Win Nets $51,575 for HollandINDIANAPOLIS (/P) — Bill Holland’s victory in the 33rd annual 500-mile auto race was worth $51,-575 to him and Lou Moore, owner of Holland’s blue crown special.The only bigger money winner in the Memorial Day race was Billy Arnold, who collected $52,-100 in 1930. Arnold led in gll but three laps of the race that year and a big chunk of his earnings was 'lap prizes.Of Holland’s total. $25,350 was the speedway purse, $200 from the qualifying purse, $400 from the entry purse, $14,600 for leading the field on 146 laps, and the remainder frctm accessory companies. He won the Oldsmobile pace car. a television set, a replica of the Borg - Warner trophy, the L. Strauss and co. trophy, the Bar-dach brothers “ringmaster” ring, and three meals a day for a year from an Indianapolis restaurant, chain.The total prize fund distributed last night at the annual chamber of commerce meeting for drivers was a record $179,150. The previous high was last year’s $171,-175. The speedway paid $40,000 more than its guaranteed purse of $75,000, a standing arrangement when it is satisfied with the si^e of the crowd. It never discloses the exact attendance figures.
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Iowa City Daily Iowan
Iowa City, Iowa, US
Wed, Jun 01, 1949
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