Sophomore Roy Shaw stole some of Jim Baker's thunder last night, nosing out the senior at the finish of the mile run in Harvard's 78-31 demolition of the Northeastern track team.

Baker, who was credited with pushing Sweden's Ulf Hoeberg to his record-breaking mile mark in the Knights of Columbia meet four days ago, had built up a four-foot lead over Shaw going into the final lap of the race.

Shaw narrowed the gap to inches at the half-lap mark, caught his teammate with a quarter-lap remaining, and finally lunged ahead to win in 4:17.6. Baker crossed the line a tenth of a second behind. Doupg Hardin was third to give the Crimson its only sweep of the night.

Shaw's time set a new Northeastern cage record.

Shaw, the fastest miler (4:03.4) in Harvard history, was Harvard's only double winner. His second victory came in the two-mile, which he coursed in 9:28.2.

Baker set his own N.U. cage mark in the 1000 to keep up his break-a-record-a-meet pace. The wiry cross country captain sped around the track in 2:15.0 to defeat N.U.'s Jan Castanza and teammate Trey Burns.

Coach Bill McCurdy recruited another of John Yovicson's boys for his spring corps last night. Sophomore Ray Hornblower joined Bill Cobb and Bill Jewitt in the 50-yard dash.

Hornblower managed a third-place finish in his first varsity race. Cobb, who made it to the semi-finals of the K.C. meet Saturday night, edged out Hornblower and Husky Captain Roger Pierce for his third consecutive dual-meet victory.

Two other sophomores gave their best dual-meet performances of the season to produce two more Harvard first places. Willowy Jim Coleman soared 6'3" in the high jump to eclipse the Harvard-N.U. meet record of 6' 2-3/4". And broad jumper John Avault won his first meet of the year with a 21' 9-1/2" leap.

Harvard's freshmen won as handily as the varsity, bombing the Huskies, 80-29.