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Captain Pat Liles gave Harvard its first K. of C. Games blue ribbon in several years Saturday night at the Boston Garden. In the Farrell 500, Liles easily out-ran Yale captain Ed Slowik, the favorite, but had to fight off a blazing stretch challenge by Rhode Island's Vin McAloon to win. His time was a fine...
...scene was set for the Yale meet. In the first running event, the mile, Eli coach Bob Giegengack tried a daring gamble, taking ace 880 man Ed Slowik out of his normal event and pitting him against Benjamin and Jed Fitzgerald...
When Benjamin and Fitzgerald rushed past Yale's Jim Wade with only 150 yards to go, it seemed as though Giegengack's strategy had failed. But Slowik came from far back and won by two yards...
Yale coach Bob Giegengack was trying a daring gamble in the mile, sending his ace Ed Slowik, an 880 man, who had never before run the distance in competition, against the varsity's Dyke Benjamin and Jed Fitzgerald. Benjamin led almost from the start, until in the final lap, when Eli Jim Wade passed Benjamin, only to be caught again 150 yards from the tape by both Benjamin and Fitzgerald. It semed as if the Yale gamble had failed, when Slowik came from no-where in the stretch to win by two yards in the meet record time...
Benjamin should have a relatively easy time in the two-mile, but the important thing here may be what teammate Jed Fitzgerald can do. Only the 880 looks totally bleak for the varsity, as the Bulldog trio of Carroll, Ed Slowik, and Ned Roache seem unbeatable...