Bill Morris proved the star of the varsity mile relay team in the Knights of Columbus Meet in the Garden Saturday evening, as he outjostled Yale's Bob Kirschner on a turn, causing the Eli to drop his baton. Harvard eventually won the event by nearly 40 yards, as N.Y.U. took second, Columbia third, and Yale a poor fourth.

Actually, the varsity's mile win was just retribution for the drubbing the Eli two-mile relay team handed a second string varsity quartet. Yale won from B.U. in an exciting finish as the varsity finished fifth, a half lap behind Yale.

Mike Robertson, running lead-off for the mile relay team, ran fourth at the end of the first lap, nearly seven yards behind Ed Holohan of Yale. At a lap and a half he passed Columbia and moved into third, still nearly seven yards behind the front-running Eli. By the first hand-off, he was second, less than five yards behind Holohan.

Strong Sprint

Jim Cairns was unable to gain on Eli Bob Skerritt until just before the second hand-off, when a strong sprint brought him even with the Eli.

Third man Morris went through his first lap three yards behind Kirchner, but at the far turn pulled up to the Eli and went to pass him. As he tried to move in, Kirschner hit him several times with his elbow. Morris slapped at Kirschner's arm, accidentally knocking the baton out of his hand. From then on, the race was gravy. He passed to anchorman Dick Wharton thirty yards ahead of second place N.Y.U., Wharton eventually increasing the lead.

The varsity's winning time of 3:23.9 was fairly good considering the fact that the team was not pushed for almost the entire last half-mile.

Robertson's leadoff time was 52 seconds flat, while Cairns was caught in a phenomenal 49.9. Morris, who slowed down after hearing that Kirschner had dropped the baton, finished in 51.8., while Wharton ran a creditable 50.2.

Wharton Wins

Earlier in the evening, Wharton had won the Eddie Farrell 500-yard run, beating Basil Ince of Tufts and Mac Hassler of Williams. After spurting into the lead after the first lap and a half, Wharton literally coasted in to win by 10 yards in the slow, for him, time of 59.1 seconds.

The freshman mile relay team picked up the other Crimson victory of the evening as it ran the Providence and Brown freshmen into the ground. Pat Liles, although boxed in badly at the start, passed the other two men during the third lap and haded off to second man Bob Hoyt 10 yards ahead of Providence. Hoyt opened this lead up until he had nearly a half lap on Providence, Art Cahn held this lead, and anchorman Ed Martin increased it to nearly three-quarters of a lap at the wire.

Slow Start

In the two-mile relay, the Crimson was unable to offset a disastrously slow first leg by Bob Weil, who passed off to Bill Thompson nearly a half lap behind first-running Yale. Thompson made up a little of this deficit, but neither Dave Spinney nor Dave McLean could close the gap.

In the dash, Joel Landau reached the semi-finals, finishing third in his trial heat. However, in the semis, he lost a step at the start, and was unable to make it up, as Willie Williams, who went on to finish third, won the heat, with Landau a close fourth. Sandy Dodge and freshman Bob Weil failed to qualify.

Hurdler Joel Cohen won his heat, but just missed qualifying for the finals as he finished fourth in his semi-final heat, less than two steps behind B.U.'s Dave Settele, who went on to take fourth. Lee Calhoun, the eventual winner, won Cohen's heat.

In the afternoon, Dave Gately finished third in the broad jump with a leap of 21 feet, 4 1/2 inches. John DuMoulin surprised everyone as he heaved the 35-pound weight 52 feet, 9 3/4 inches, by far his personal best toss, to place fourth in that event. Hank Abbott took sixth in the shot, with a toss of 44 feet, 10 inches.