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Tuesday, May 8, 1956 -- Elwood vs. Crispus Attucks Track Meet
by Nancy Sumner
Monday, May 7, 1956
Elwood Thinlies Close Home Season Tuesday With Crispus Attucks
Elwood’s track team will make its final appearance at home this season when it hosts the powerful Crispus Attucks Tigers Tuesday afternoon, starting at 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday has been designated "Track Day" by school officials. The band will put on a show at the meet. Adults will be charged 50 cents and students 25 cents for admission. All proceeds will go to the U. S. Olympic Fund.
Two boys on the Attucks squad are already familiar to Elwoodites because of basketball -- Oscar Robertson and Bill Brown.
Robertson is one of the best high jumpers in the state. His best height so far is 6-1 7/8.
Oscar can also run the high hurdles in :15.7 as can teammate Albert Maxey. Maxey also skips the lows in :21.2.
Brown is the Tigers’ number one shot putter. His best heave this season is 48-9.
Don Brown will make things tough for Elwood in the 100 and 220. He has run the 100 in :10.3 and the 220 in :22.9.
Ernest Gilcrease should be able to win both distance events for the Tigers. Gilcrease has a prior 2:04 clicking in the 880 and a previous 4:34 time in the mile.
Crispus Attucks should win both relays with little trouble. The Tigers 3:38 in the mile relay and 1:35 in the 880 relay are considerably better than the panthers’ best timers in these events.
Grover Mumford, John Smith and Alfred Moore should do well for Attucks. Mumford has run the 440 in :53.2. Smith has a 20-9 broad jump to his credit and Moore has pole vaulted 10-3 for coach Al Spurlock’s Tigers.
Best chances for Elwood blue ribbons will be in the shot put, the 440, the pole vault and the broad jump.
John Burdsall is almost a sure thing in the shot as he holds the school record of 51-2 ½. Jeb Carter has dashed the 440 in :52.8 for Dick Bollinger’s thinlies.
Darrell McQuitty could turn in wins in the pole vault and broad jump. He has been up to 10-6 in the pole vault and holds the school record broad jump of 20.8.
Wednesday, May 9, 1956
Thinlies Lose to Tigers
Burdsall, McQuitty Set School Records As Attucks Tops Elwood
Elwood’s John Burdsall and Darrell McQuitty set new school records, but the panther track team was outclassed by Crispus Attucks in a meet held here Tuesday 74-35.
Burdsall set his new mark in the shot put with a 53-9 ½ heave. By duplicating or bettering this distance John should be able to place in the state meet later this month. Burdsall’s old record was 51-2 ½.
McQuitty high jumped 5-11 to break his own 5-10 school record. But his effort was not good enough for first place as Attucks’ Oscar Robertson went 6-1.
McQuitty did, however, get one of the Panthers’ three blue ribbons with his 10-0 pole vault effort. Jeb Carter won the 440 in :53.4 for Elwood’s other first.
Carter was the locals’ top point getter as he also finished second in both the 100 and the 220.
Larry Courtney turned in his best performance of the year in placing second to Burdsall in the shop put. Courtney had a 51-1 ¾ heave. Until last week that distance would have been a school record.
Rex Carlisle, Dave Henn, Marvin Crim, Tom Giselbach and Trent Toensing also picked up points for the Elwood squad.
Carlisle was tied for second in the pole vault. Henn took third in both the high and low hurdles. Crim was third in the 440 and broad jump. Giselbach ran third in the mile. Toensing was third in the 880.
Attucks picked up 10 firsts in winning the meet. Double winners for the Tigers were Don Brown and Oscar Robertson.
Brown was first at the tape in both dashes, running the 100 in :10.6 and the 220 in :24.0. Robertson’s 6-1 leap took the high jump and Oscar’s :16.0 time in the high hurdles was good for a blue ribbon.
The Tigers’ other victories cam in the mile, the 880, the broad jump, the low hurdles and both relays.
Ernest Gilcrease won the mile with a very good 4:38.6 clocking. John Sanders was first in the 880 with a 2:12.5 time.
Attuck’s Don Smith was the broad jump winner with a 19-1 leap. Albert Maxey was first at the tape in the low hurdles, running the distance in :21.9.
Missing two regulars the Tigers mile relay team of John Moore, Roy Bevery, John Sanders and Gilcrease won easily in 3:39. Attucks had an even easier time in the 880 relay with Smith, Eddie Parrish, Robertson and Don Brown running the distance in 1:36.5
SUMMARY
100 – 1. D. Brown (CA): 2. Carter (E): 3. Smith (CA) Time :10.6
200 – 1. D. Brown (CA): 2. Carter (E): 3. Parrish (CA) Time :24.0
440 – 1.Carter (E): 2. Lauderdale (CA): 3. Crim (E) Time :53.4
880 – 1. Sanders (CA): 2. Spencer (CA): 3. Toensing (E) Time 2:12.5
Mile – 1. Gilrease (CA): 2. Beverly (CA): 3.Giselbach (E) Time 4:38.5
HH – 1. Robertson (CA): 2. Maxey (CA): 3. Henn (E) Time :16.0
LH – 1. Maxey (CA): 2. Robertson (CA): 3. Henn (E) Time: 21.0
SP – 1. Burdsall (E): 2. Courtney (E): 3. W. Brown (CA) Distance 53'-9 ½"
(New Elwood School record, replaces 51'-2 ½" by Burdsall 1956)
BJ – 1. Smith (CA): 2. Howard (CA): 3. Crim (E) Distance 19'-1"
PV – 1.McQuitty (E): 2. (tie) Carlise (E) and Moore (CA) Height 10'-0"
HJ – 1. Robertson (CA): 2. McQuitty (E): 3. (tie) Maxey (CA) and Harris (CA) Height 6'-1"
(In finishing second, McQuitty went 5'-11" setting new Elwood school record, replacing 5'-10" by McQuitty 1956)
Mile Relay – 1. Crispus Attucks (Moore, Beverly, Sanders, Gilcrease) Time 3:39
880 Relay – 1. Crispus Attucks (Smith, Parrish, Robertson, D. Brown) Time 1:36.5
From the 1957 Crescent
Track, as a major sport in Wendell Willkie High School, advanced in popularity last year as a result of many contributing factors. A new and more difficult schedule made track a more interesting and spectacular event at Willkie High. A bigger and better talented group of men that ever turned out for a track season in Elwood was another success of track. Last, but not least, Mr. Bollinger, last year’s track coach, was perhaps the biggest contributing factor of all. As a result, the best track season was recorded at Wendell Willkie last year. Following are a list of the best official times, distances and heights turned in by the Elwood thinlies last year:
100 – Jeb Carter, :10.8
220 – Jeb Carter, :23.8
440 – Jeb Carter, :51.4
880 – Trent Toensing, 2:18.5
Mile – Tom Giselbach, 5:14.2
LH – Dave Henn, :22.7
HH – Dave Henn, :18.1
SP – John Burdsall, 53'-9 ½"
BJ – Darrell McQuitty, 20'-8"
HJ – Darrell McQuitty, 5'-11"
PV – Darrell McQuitty, 10'-6"
Mile Relay – Marvin Crim, Darrell McQuitty, Jeb Carter, Tom Phillips 3:52.0
880 Relay – Darrell McQuitty, Marvin Crim, Dave Henn, Jeb Carter, 1:43.0
Re-typed articles from the Elwood Call-Leader and the 1957 Crescent
Nancy Sumner '66
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