Netters:
The death of Bob Carty breaks up one of the two NYC college relay
teams which were, to say the least, overachievers in the early 1950s.
Bob was the senior member of a team which included 1952 Olympic 100M
champ Lindy Remigino, Jack O'Connell and Joe Schatzle. He had run for
several years after HS with the NYPC before accepting a Manhattan
scholasrhip from legendary coach George Eastment who had just replaced Pete
Waters as Jasper mentor after practically creating the modern HS sport of
track and field at Bishop Loughlin HS, where his teams had won three of the
four championship relays at Penn in 1945 and earned a feature story in Life
Magazine.
Remogino is, of course, the best known member of the team. O'Connell
was a pint-sized sprinter from NJ's Hackensack HS and Schatzle a lankier,
but razor-thin graduatye of a NY high school. Carty was the only one witha
really man-sized physique as present-day (or even his day) sprinters went.
But with letter-perfect passing, they cut quite a swath on the relay
circuit.
Ed
Grant
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