TRACKNEWSLETTER SupplementingTRACK & FIELD NEWS
Volume 12, No. 6 December 9, 1965 Page 41
Ke ino Tags Second Record : 13:24.2 from the pack. And then, to pin -point it more definitely, you speak of two who stand out among the five. Auckland, . Z., ov. 30- - Kenya's K.ipchoge Keino, cheered These two are orwood P. (Barney) Ewell and Charles W. wildly by 9000 fans, raced to a 13:24.2 5000-meter clocking which Paddock. The other three are Herb McKenley (who was better known sliced 1.6 seconds off the world mark set earlier this year by Aus as a quarter-miler but who did win an Olympic Games silver medal tralian Ron Clarke. at 100-meters), Jackson V . Scholz and Frank Wykoff. Toe African burst to the front after the first 120 yards and Others who had a certain measure of success along with ran alone until he snapped the tape. He passed the two - and three competitive longevity (an eight-year span or better) would include mile posts in 8:33 .8 and 12:58 .4 (to become the second man to better Loren urchison, Andy Stanfield, Hubert Houben, Heinz•Futterer 13 minutes and the only one to do so during a 5000-meter race}. and another sometimes sprinter who specialized in the 440 and Bill Baillie was second in 14:01. 2 and Yugoslav Franc Cervan 400, Cliff Bourland. third in 14: 02. 0. Conditi ons for the race were excellent. Ewell's remarkable career began in 1936 when, as a high school boy, he won the ational Junior AAU 100. He was 18 at the time . In 1948, at the age of 30, Barney ran 100-meters in 10. 2 at Foreign News Evanston , then went on to win two silver medals in the Olympic Games' sprints at London plus a gold medal in the 400 relay. CARACAS, ov. 13--l00m, Randolph (US},10.1; 2. Drayton In 1941, early in his career, Ewell was good enough to defeat (US} 10.2; 3. Herrera (Ven} 10.2. 200m, Drayton (US) 20.5; 2. Hal Davis in the ational AAU 100-meters at Philadelphia. In 1948, Randolph (US) 20. 5. 400, C. Young (US) 46. 5; 2. Strong (US) 47 .1. at the close of his career, he was still good enough to beat Mel 800, Germann (US) 1:51.2. 400IH, Bethea (US) 52.9. PV, White Patton, Lloyd LaBeach and E . McDonald Bailey in the Olympic 100- (US) 15'3". 400R, US 40 .2 (Drayton, Bethea, Strong, Randolph). meters. And, still at London, he was good enough to give Patton the MELBOURNE, ov . .:l3--2Mile, Clarke 8:42.6; 2. Coyle race of his life for the 200-meters gold medal while beating LaBeach, 8:43.6. McKenley and Bourland. MELBOOR E, ov. 27--Mile, Clarke 4:10 .8. HJ, Peckham In 1941, at the age of 23, Barn~ ran 100-meters in 10.2. 6'6 " . In 1948, age 30, he ran 100-meters in 10.2 and ZOO-meters on a PEKING, CHINA, H1, i 7'4j" (2.25); another lifetime best; tum in 20.8. Barney was in competition for 11 seasons over a span has also done 7'3¾'' and 7'4 4 " this season. of 13 years, both figures being an all -time record for a sprinter. AUCKLAND, EW ZEALA D, ov. 27--1500, Keino (Ken) In this period he won more major championships than any other, 17 3:41.9. if you include an Olympic team trial. Broken down, these read as TOKOROA, EW ZEALAND, Dec. 6--Mile, Keino 3:56.9. follows: 6 AAU titles, 3 at 100 and 3 at 200; 4 CAA titles, 2 at 2. Davies 4: 00. l; 3. Cervan (Yug) 4: 13. 2. 100 and 2 at 200; 6 IC4A titles, 3 at 100 and 3 at 200; 1 Olympic team trial at 100-meters. The only seasons between 1936 and 1948 when I can find no major competitive races for Ewell are 1938 and 1943. If Barney Cross Country Results competed indoors in either of these yea rs, add 'em to his string. Ewell made only one Olympic team, 1948, but there can be USTFF CHAMPIO SHIPS, Wichita, Kans., ov. 25 (6.0 mile little doubt he would have qualified for any American team that might course, 54 degrees, 15 mph wind)--1. Lawson (Kans) 28:50 .8; 2. have competed in 1944 when the Olympics were blacked out by the Moore (So Ill) 29:25 ; 3. Brown (Montana) 29:33; 4. Ryun (Kans Fr) War . I doubt if very many would bet he couldn't have made the team 30:05 ; 5. Sweeney (Houston TC} 30:14; 6. Woelk (Emporia St) 30:17; for Tokyo in the washed -out Games of 1940 when he was 22 and in 7. Yergovich (Kans} 30:18; 8. Dotson (unat) 30:21; 9. Harper (Kans his prime . St) 30:28; 10. Dutton (Kans St) 30:31; 11. Mohler (unat) 30:44; Paddock, Scholz and yko.ff each made three Olympic teams. 12. Ryan (Houston TC) 30:46; 13. Maxfield (Id St) 30:48; 14. Con Paddock won 13 major championships in 10 competitive seasons over treras (Kans) 30:53 ; 15. Trowbridge (So Ill) 30:57 . Team Scores: a span of 13 years. Wykoff won seven major titles in nine seasons (including frosh) 1. Kansas 38; 2. Houston TC 65; 3. Southern Illi over a ten-year span. Stanfield 10 major titles in eight seasons 0'9er nois 69; 4. Kansas State 91; 5. San Jose State 95. eight years . AlA ~HAMPIO SHIPS, Omaha, ebr., ov. 27--1. McMahon McKenley and Scholz each won three major sprint titles, (Okla Baptist, Ireland) 20:28.6 ; 2. Lakin (Ft Hays St) 20:40; 3. el Herb in eight seasons over a span of 10 years, Scholz seven for son (St Cloud) 30: 53; 4. Gould (Omaha) 21:26; 5. Mason (Ft Hays St) nine. Loren urchison won seven titles in six over eight years; 21:32; 6. Ewing (H Payne) 21:39; 7. Thomas (H Payne) 21:41; 8. Houben nine titles in seven for eight and Putterer eight titles, also Knox (Ky St) 21:43 ; 9. Miller (L & Clark) 21:49; 10. Smith (Ft Hays seven seasons in an eight-year span. St) 21: 52. Team scores: Ft Hays St 43; 2. Whitworth 117; 3. Peru Let us turn a moment to Paddock, the original so-called 171; 4. Pittsburg St .175; 5. Howard Payne 176; 6. Central Michigan "Fastest Human" and the first man to attract world-wide attention 196; 7. Harding 213; 8. Wisconsin St 243; 9. Kearney St 256. to the track and field factory known as the University of Southern AAU CHAMPIO SHIPS, ew York City, ov. 27 (10, 000m, California. muddy and slippery course, 60 de&rees)--1. Larrieu (unat) 31:11.8; Paddock's first claim to world fame was in 1919 when be won 2. Ellis (TOC) 31:40; 3, Morgan (GGTC) 31:50; 4. Buniak (TOC) the sprints at the Inter-Allied Games in Paris. He was 19 at the 32:13 ; 5. Bache (Quantico) 32:16 ; 6. O'Reilly (Geotwn) 32:21; 7. time. But his career of beating well - known sprinters had begun in Laris YAC) 32: 22; 8. Boychuk (TOC) 32: 25; 9. Scharf (BOC) 32: 28; 1916 when Charley was either a late 15 or an early 16, according 10. Edelen (unat) 32: 35; 11. Clark (Phil AC) 32:42; 12. Carius (UCTC} to the data of the Far Western AAU championships held that year in 32: 47; 13. Mittelstaedt (UCTC) 32: 52; 14. Ash mo re (unat) 32: 54; 15. San Diego. Brouillet (Quant ico) 32:55. Team scores: Toronto OC 40; 2. Uni The date I do not have, but in the 100-yards of that meet versity of Chicago TC 76; 3. Quantico Marines 90; 4. Philadelphia Paddock defeated Howard Drew, who was second, and Morris Kirksey, AC 112; 5. Boston AA 118. who was third. He was second to Henry Williams in the 220 but again defeated both Dre, and Kirksey. These were the first of 25 straight Most Durable Spri nter s victories that Paddock won over his friend Kirksey, who never did beat Paddock in any race but who usually came within a few inches by Maxwell Stiles of doing so. When you speak of durability and longevity among the great In 1921, age 20, Paddock ran 110-yards in 10.2. Tbis was sprinters of all time, you speak first of five men who stand out two-feet farther than 100-meters, for which distance 10 .2 was not Page 42 December 9, 1965 beaten until 35 years later when\ illie \ illiams , Ira Murchison and he first made the Olympic team in 192 --a neat 14 . '1 feed my Leamon King ran 10 .1 in 19 56 . ulcer well,·• Frank laughed when I asked if he does it "-ith exercise Paddock was the 1920 Olympic Games 100-meters champion. or diet. He was second in the Olympic 200-meters in 1920 and again in 1924 The follov ing is a tabulation of the most durable sprinters . when he also made the team for 100-meters. In 192 , at the age of 28 (he was born Aug 11, 1900, at Gainesville, Tex), Paddock once Span of Seasons in :Major Sprint more made the Olympic team--in the 200-meters. He .failed to reach Years Competition ame Olympiads Titles the final. 13 11 Barney Ewell 1 1 7 These records indicate that Paddock at 15 was a much better 13 10 Charles . Paddock 3 13 runner than was Ewell at that age, but Ewell was much better at 30 10 9 Frank\ ykoff 3 7 than Paddock was at 2 . Still, Paddock at 28 was again an Olympian. 10 Herb cKenley Uamaica) 2 3 Like Ewell, Paddock won one gold medal for the sprint relay. 9 7 Jackson . Scholz 3 3 Paddock's major titles: 2 Inter-Allied, 1 for 100, 1 for 200; 8 8 Andy Stanfield 2 10 1 Olympic Games, 100; 4 AAU (2 at 100, 2 at 220); 4 Students World 7 Hubert Houben (Germany) 2 9 Games, (2 at 100, 2 at 200); 2 Olympic Team Trials (1 in 100, 1 in 8 7 Heinz Futterer (Germany) 2 200) . 8 6 Loren Murchison 2 8 Paddock, a Captain of the US Marines, was killed in uniform 8 4* Cliff Bourland 1 0 during the World v ar Il. A military plane in which he was flying to *v hile Bourland 's career as an athlete as over a longer Alaska crashed against a mountain on an island off the coast of British period than four competitive season, his sprinting in major competi Columbia. His body has never been recovered. tion was confined to 1941-42-43-4 . Jack Scholz, who beca.Jie a successful fiction writer, won his way into the OlympK: Games final in 1920, and placed fourth in the race won by Paddock with Kirksey second and H . F . Edward of Great Mexican International Meet Reviewed Britain third. In 1924, at Paris, Scholz was second to Harold Abrahams of Great Britain in the 100, beating Paddock, and in the 200 he won by Pitch Johnson the gold medal to Paddock's silver. In 1928, at Amsterdam, the (reprinted from Palo Alto Times) speedy Missourian was still good enough to tie Helmut Koernig of The athletic and organizational success of the 196 Olympic Germany for third in the 200-meters. Games is a goal which the exican government and people are making Wykoff was a 9.5 100-yard dash man at Glendale High in 1927. a mat ter of national pride. That year he won the ational Junior AAU 100 at Lincoln, eJJ, and The International Sports eek that concluded here last weekend a year later startled everyone by beating Paddock in the Pacific South was the first of three annual events to probe training and competitive west Olympic team trials and later by winning the US Olympic trials physical problems in the Mexico City environment and to test facilities at 100-meters in Boston . and organization. Wykoff was wearing the big "G" of Glendale High when he Most of the emphasis has been put on the medical problems became our umber one man for the Olympics tba t day at Boston. of the athletes, but the tmpublicized intense interest of the officials Leg injuries subsequently held back his career, but in 1930 he became of the Mexican Olympic Committee in the operation of the arrange the first man to officially run 100-yards, without starting blocks, in ments and in the opinions of the visitors about them underlines the 9.4. two-fold purpose of the Sports Week. Wykoff ran fourth at Amsterdam, made the sprint relay team Two hundred twenty-three athletes from 17 countries competed for the Los Angeles Olympics in 1932, and four years later was still during the week in track and field, boxing, cycling, fencing, gym good enough to make the team and to reach the 100-meters final at nastics, and swimming. Berlin where again he ran fourth behind Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalf Several facts and conclusions emerged during the week. and Holland's Martin Osendarp . 1. Athletic facilities generally are good, but the running Wykoff anchored the gold medal sprint relay team on which track is very soft and inadequate for the games. his mates were Owens, etcalfe and Foy Draper, also killed in the 2. ex:ican sports officials are working very hard, but War when shot down flying a mission over Africa. planning has a long way to go in such areas as dissemination of ykoff won three IC4A titles, two CAA, one AAU and one information and instructions to the press and the competitors, the Olympic trial, all at 100. running of the meet, crowd control on the field, and training officials . In 1933 he ran only indoors, winning seven races including 3. Swimming is a notable exception to the above . The one that gave him a huge Seton Hall trophy for victories at 40, 50 Mexican Swimming Federation is highly organized and operates quite and 60 yards . In 1934 Frank was teaching at Moran School in separately from the other sports. Atascadero, Calif. He accompanied the school track team to the 4. The altirude, 7,349 feet, will affect distance rtmners and Easter Relays where he won the 100 in 9 .5, took the 220 and also swimmers adversely . Performances, in events in which wind re won the long jump . He did not compete in 1935 but staged a come sistance plays a major role, such as in the sprints and some bicyling back in the Olympic year of 1936 . will be aided by the thinner air . Wykoff now works in the educational field as he is in charge 5. Gastro-intestinal problems affected many athletes, particu - of Los Angeles Cotmtry probation camps and supervises an educa larly those from the United States. tional and rehabilitation program for Juvenile Hall. The highlight of the week, at least for track fans, as the 5000- And , perhaps the most remarkable "durability" and "long meter rematch of the first three finishers in the 10,000 meters in evity" statistic of all, Frank still weighs the same as he did when Tokyo, Billy Mills of the USA, Mohamed Gamoudi of Tunisia, and Ron Clarke of Australia. The race started out as a four-way affair among those th ree Bulletin Board and Yuri Turin of Russia, rut Mills was unable to stipk with the group pace and was not with the leaders in the last half of the race. "Seven Language Sports Dictionary" has just been published Clarke stepped up the pace, which was a slow one, with four and is available from its author, Bernhard A. Schettkoe, 15 Howe St., of the 12½ laps to go, but was unable to shake Gamoudi or the Russian . Warwick, Y 10990. The book is over 1100 pages, includes English, With two to go, the Tunisian bad taken the lead with Clarke on his German, French, Italian, Russ ian, Spanish and Hungarian, and heels, when Turin made his move . He got up to Gamoudi's should er, sells for $15 . 00. rut both Clarke and the leader moved the tempo up again and Turin ewsletters of Volume 12 Will be mailed as follows: (A)= was out of it. four page TN by air-mail; (8)=eight page by first-class mail. Gamoudi reacted to the final lap gtm like it was a startin g December 9 (8), January 13 (8), February 10 (A), 24 (A), March pistol, and sprinted the last 400 meters to beat the sie by more 10 (A), 24 (A), April 7 (A), 21 (A), 28 (A), May 5 (A), 12 (A), 19 than a second. The winning time of 14:40 .6 as a off Cla rke 's (A), 26 (A), June 2 (A), 9 (A), 16 (A), 23 (A), 30 (A), July 14 ( ) . world mark of 13:25 .8. ext issues of Track and Field ews mailed December Mills finished fifth in 15:lU .2, behind Juan _iartin ez, Mexico 's 23, January 27, February 24, r1.arch 24, April 21 and May 19. 1 -year-old, fast rising distance star, and j st ahead of another 1ills, TRACK NEWSLETTER Mexican, Valentin Robles. The race be een who was aching with a muscle spasm in the diaphragm, and Robles caused more Second class postage paid at Los Altos, Calif. Published 24 times a excitement than the Gamoudi -Clarke d el, bicb was a rouser. year by Track & Field ews, Inc., P. 0. Box 296, Los Altos, Calif. $6.00 per year by air mail or first class mail in the U.S., second Gamoudi said he felt good all the way and had no trooble with class mail elsewhere. Dick Drake, Managing Editor; Cordner elson, the air the day before , hen he won the 10,000. But after the 5000 Editor; Bert~ elson, Publisher. he complained that he couldn't get comfortable with his stride be- December 9, 1965 Page 43 cause of lack of air. 'ew York Athletic Club Games held ovem.ber 11, 1868 in 1ew York Clarke said that it was the slowest race he had run since he City as the first indoor track meet in history. Past experience bas was 16. He added that there was no questi on in his mind that in the shown that, sooner or later, someone will locate an earlier event. races above 00-meters in the Games will have times considerably Be this as it may, the meet was both interesting and historical. slower than those to be expected from the class of the competition. 'ewspaper reports give us a fairly complete report on the event con The Australian continued to say that no one can get used to the altitude ducted by the newly formed (September 8, 1 6 ) ew York Athletic enough to make the body as effective a running mechanism at 7,349 Club. feet as at sea le el. The competition was held at the Empire Skating Rink located "It's like training on sand, " he said. 'You can get used to it, on Third Avenue, ew York City. The building mea sured 350-feet but it will never be as efficient as nmning on a firm track. There '11 by 170-feet and had a 70-foot high ceiling. The floor was of dirt and be some good races up here, but the times in the long ones will have the arena contained a raised platform for spectators with accommo - to be much slower . " da tions for 10, 000 persons (probably at the sides). The accounts Mills brought up a psychological problem . The question has stated the building was well illuminated, which by today's standards arisen whether or not extreme effort at altitude can be injurious to might be seriously debated since the light was obviously furnished by health. Bill's comment was that he was leary of the altitude and that gas lamps. The accounts stated a large crowd was in attendance but he didn 't think that any of the great distance nmners would be making did not give a specific estimate of the number of persons present. serious all -out performances in any of the pre -Olympic meets. During the evc.ning's events, Dodworth 's Band "rendered "\l hen the Games does take place, " be added, "everyone will choice musical selections." Two special events we re included forget caution and do whatever he can to win . That is a little scary. " during the program of athletic events: r. Edward Russell, presi The walker, Ron Laird, was the only American who was in top dent of the ';'f AC, gave an exhib ition "with the kehoe clubs" and fol shape, and the only male U . S. place winner . He placed second in the lowing the mile walk a bike race with "two -wheeled F rench veloci - 20 kilometer walk to the East German Hans Reimann. pedes " was held . An American girl, Marilyn Manning, won the ladies 400-me Quite contrary to today's rules of competition, this meet ters. She said that her recovery was quicker, but that she was more was open both to professional and amateur athletes, althou gh it tired than usual after the race . The time was a slow 56 .0. appears the only professional athletes were those from the New York The French and Germans trained heavily for the meet, many Caledonia Club. The description of the entries states tm!t besides of them in the Pyrenees and the Alps, and in general dominated the tra c k the Caledonia Club and AC athletes , the YWCA and "all" gymna- competition at the shorter distances. There were no serious corn - siums were represented. (The quotes around "all" are the author's). plaints about the air by these sprinters, and times were respectable The competition was ma rked by one unusual first, the use of for the track condition, except for the 1500 meters, which went to spiked shoes by illiam B. Curtis for the first time in a track meet. Bodo Tumler , West Germany, in 3:54 .4, the rough equivalent of a Their advantage at that time may seem dubious as Curtis won one 4:11 mile. race and lost one. The competi tion began at 7p.m. and lasted until Harry McCalla, ex-Stanford miler, and Cary e1S1ger, a midnight. The summary of events was as follows : sub-four minute man, were way back in the 1500 finish, althou gh 75, Curtis (NYAC) ~.O; 2. Stone (Woods) 9.:l5. Heats: I-1, leaders at three laps. either was in good condition, although Curtis 9 . 0 . II-1, Stone (Woods) 9.25. ill-1, Edwards {NY) 9.5. McCalla, an Air Force offic er, bas been working out at Denver. 220, Johnson (NYAC) 28 . 0; 2. Curtis (NYAC) 28.5. 440, Magrane (NYAC) 62.0 ; 2 . Halliday (NYCC) 63 . 0. 880, Magrane (N'"A.C) At the conclusion of each race at the International Sports 2:26. O; 2 . Halliday (NYCC) 2:27 .5. ·1e Walk, Russell (NYAC) Week the West German nmners jogged immediately to a stretcher 7:57 .5; 2. Wilkins ( aries) 7:51.0. (sic) 11 where they were fitted with pulse and blood pressure recorders, Standing HJ, Goldie ( CC) 4'4½"; 2. Walker (NYCC) 4'4 • a breathing bag for exhaust analysis, and electrodes at several Running HJ, Stone(\ oods) 5'2"; 2. Campbell (NYCC) 4'11". Stand points on the body . ing LJ, Broderick (NYAC) 11'7½"; 2. Green (Phi.la) 11'3". Running 11 All readings were recorded on strip charts for later analysis. LJ, Goldie (NYCC) 16 '6 ; 2 . Stone (NYCC) 16 '5". Standing TJ, 11 1 11 Urine and blood samples were also taken. Broderick (NYAC) 33' ; 2. Campbell (NYCC) 31 5 • SP (161b). 11 Unit ed States doctors took manual blood pressure, pulse, and Graham (t\"YCC) 35 '5 "; 2. Buermeyer (NYAC) 34 '5 • respiration rate readings before and after each race for most of the These were the only events listed in the newspaper accounts. competitors. Some athletes were given oxygen immediately after Apparently the building was unheated as the accounts of the compe competition. tition close with the statement " ... the crowd of visitors, thoroughly The French lived entirely on food and water brought from chilled by the cold air, wended their way home. 11 France and cooked by their own chef. Virtually every nation had some kind of medical test program going on its athletes. A symposium will be held in Albuquerque in Errrata, Addenda February so that each nation can give the results of its tests to the group. These are amendments to the November 11, 1966 Track News The American doctors said that they could detect no unusual letter: blood pressures after competition. Pulse rates were up from sea School Records: level post-competiti on rates s omewhat, and respiration rates up Since we did not follow the actual school records available in considerably . press books before the 1965 season, most of these amendments were encountered in controversial areas, non-winning marks or this past The Olympic stadium is on the campus of the University of season's marks. We thank everyone who forwarded suggested cor Mexico. The stands seat 70, 000 at present and will be increased to rections, which we attempted to verify. These are the results: 150, 000 in time for the 1968 Olympic games. 1. Southern Cal: OT, 190'8½", Gary Carlsen '65 (Babka's 198'10" The campus is about five miles from the center of town where throw landed in a ditch and was an estimate); 440R, La.Fond, Dist most of the major hotels are located. A main thoroughfare and a MedR, 9:45.2n, Cawle y , Hogan, Calhoun, Mar in '63; Dec, 7211, nearly complete freeway lead to the vicinity of the stadium. Roy Willi ams 64. The track is spongy and made of volcanic cinders . An all - 2. Oregon : 880, 1:48.0n, Wade Bell 65; 3Mile, 13:45.0, Ken Moore 1 11 weather replacement is planned. The jumpin g pits need work to 65; LJ, 25'll¾", Mel Renfro 62; OT, 177 3 , Neal Steinhauer 65. bring them up to standard, but the faults are understood by the Mexi 3. Oregon State: 220t, 21. 2, Bob Johnson 62; 6Mile, 28:52 .40., Rich can officials • Cuddihy 63; Dec, 7648 NT, Ste ve Pauly 62. Boxing and gymnastics will be held in the Arena Mexico which 4. San Jose State: 440, 46. 5n, Tommie Smith 64; MileR, 3: 10. 6n, 11 is 10 blocks from downto wn . Curtis, Flemons, McCullough, Williams 60; HT, 192'3½ , Ed &lrke Brand new and beautiful swimming facilities are in the Ciudad 62. Politeclmica, about a mile from the hotel area. Swimming is an Decathlon: important school sport in exico and a good deal of investment was 1. Milt Campbell: 49 '3¾'' SP, 158 '10" OT - -8 055 (19th). put into these tanks, called the Zacatenco pools. 2 , .Q_ickEmberger: 14. 0 HH, --8938 (21st}. Much work will ye t be done, but the nucleus of the facilities CAA Meets: is in place and read y for the additional test of the future International 1. Michigan. ·orrnal (41 31/ 70} and E 'n Mich are the same school Sports weeks in the yea rs between now and the Olympiad. for 67 31/70. . 2 . Okla St (45 1/ 35) and Okla A&. 1 (34) are the same school and are in the Big (7th-'79 1/ 35). First Indoor Track Meet 3. Georgia Tech (5 ) is a member of the Southeastern Conference by Dave Batchelor thereby increasing the SEC 's total to 51 moving it from sixth to Historians of athletics for a number of years have listed the fifth ahead of the \\ AC . Page« December 9, 1965 4. Two conferences were inadvertently left out of the ove r-all CAA Diary of the Kosic e Marathon scoring: Heptagonal 677 points which would rank it 5th, and Metro politan 455 points for 8th. Here are the details: by Hal Higdon HEPTAGONAL 677 METROPOLITAN 455 (reprinted from Long Distance Log) avy 112 U 266 I was in Europe this fall and managed to time my business Pennsylvania 98 Manhattan 97 trip so as to take in the Kosice arathon, perhaps one of the three Yale 93 St. John's 40 or four most important marathons on the international racing cal - Cornell 87 Seton Hall 28 endar. The Czechs had offered to pay my transportation from London Harvard 85 Fordham 24 if I also ran a race in Prague two weeks earlier, but our AAU Columbia 64 Fairleigh Dickinson 0 squelched that. So, on my o, n, I appeared in Kosice by train from Army 48 Iona 0 Hungary the morning before the race. Dartmouth 34 Queens 0 I had not told the sponsors when I would arrive because I did Princeton 34 CC 0 not know. Fortunately I had picked the same train as the Yugoslavian Brown 22 Rutgers 0 team and my suitcase was immediately swept from my hand by the 5. A number of readers expressed interest in the non-conference official greeter. We were transported by bus to the Hotel Hutnek, schools which have scored less than 25 p0ints, which we list here: which was new in 1963 when I had sta yed there with Buddy Edelen. Tuskegee 24 Okla Baptist 1.2 The night before arriving in Kosice I had been sick with Detroit 22½ Redlands 12 stomach cramps and severe diarrhea, the result of an epicurean Tennessee A&I 22 William & ary 11 adventure in eastern Europe. I mentioned this casually and almost Boston College 22 Florida A& 10 before my suitcase had been deposited in the hotel lobby I was Denison 21 Alfred 10 escorted to a nearby hospital. A doctor gave me a jar of black pills Maine 21 Ashland 10 and told me what not to eat. I spent most of the next 24 hours drink Pacific Lutheran 21 Hampton 10 ing tea and soup trying to regain my lost liquids. Oberlin 17 Hardin-Simmons 10 Already present and fully in command of the local situation UC Santa Barbara 16 1/ 16 College of Ozarks 10 was Scott Hamilton, the Oxford Abe Lincoln. Scott was on a three Alamma Teachers 16 Va Union 10 month sabattical, whether for architectural or athletic purposes I Lawrence 16 Loyola (Calif) 10 wasn't quite clear, and he was walking around nodding knowingly and Franklin & Marshall 16 West Chester 10 jot ting down notes and addresses in a little black notebook that was Xavier (La) 15 Wheaton 10 apparently attached to his navel by an umbilical cord. The local Ball State 14 San Francisco 9 press apparently was astounded that anyone as obviously erudite as Cal Tech 14 DePauw 8 1/ 18 he could live in Alaska , which they apparently equated with Siberia. Loyola (Ill) 14 Kendree 8 He was thus the center of attraction and he would cheerily scrawl Loyola (La) 14 Puerto Rico 8 his name (Scott Hamilton, USA, often with a picture of a mountain Missouri 14 Wabash 8 range with the big dipper floating over it) for the many children and VMI 14 Howard Payne 6 other athletes who swarmed around the hotel like flies. Johns Hopkins 13 Kalamazoo 4 Meals were served in the restaurant of the hotel and were Albion 12 Cent Wesleyan 3 quite good. We sat at a table flagged with the stars and stripes and Elmhurst 1~ had an interpretor who got us anything (within reason) we wanted. When you wanted orange juice you asked for "joooos." Tea was something like "kie-vo." Beer was "pivo, " which was the only word I retained from my previous trip to Czechoslovakia. That Saturday afternoon Scott went with the other runners on High School Indoor Records a bus to see the cause. The course begins with a lap on a stadium compiled by Hugh Gardner track and then goes almost due south to within a few kilometers of These are believed to be the best-ever indoor high school re the Hungarian border. Then you turn around and return to finish cords. The marks represent the best on record, and were not neces - with a lap and a half in the stadium. It is as flat as an ironing board sarily made in interscholastic competition. a--four 39 " hurdles; b- and the only difficulty you have is with the cobblestone streets during five 39" hurdles; c--five 42 " hurdles; *--international height hurdles. the first and last half dozen kilometers. I wanted to sleep and passed 50 5 .3 George Hartsfield (Glassboro, n Glassboro 2/15/64 seeing the course, which I would see enough of the following day. I 5.3 Richmond Flowers (Lanier, Mont) Mobile 1/ 2/ 65 also passed laying a wreath on the Russian war memorial, and by not 60 6.1 Jim Jackson (Dunbar, Lubbock, Tex)Lubbock 1/ 27 / 62 arriving in Kosice until noon had earlier missed a reception with the 6 .1 George Aldredge (H 'land P, Dallas) Dallas 2/ 7 / 64 mayor. 70 7. 2 George Moore (DuPont Manual, Lv) Louisville ?/17 / 62 That night we had box seat tickets to the opera, which was a 7. 2 h Bob Brown (Male, Louisville, Ky) Louisville 2/27 / 65 rather screeching thing with people stabbing themselves on stage . r 7 . 2 Brown Louisville 2/ 27 / 65 excused myself after the first act and went home to bed. When my · 7. 2n JiIIl Green (Eminence, Ky) Louisville 2/ 27 / 65 roommate, Martin Rutsch of Gottingen, Germany, came in from the 100 9. 8 Al Phillips (Montclair, ] C 1/ 28/ 56 opera, I was too far gone to even nod. 220 22 . 0 Ollie Hunter ( ew Rochelle, West Point 2/ 6/65 The next day, Sunday, we left by bus for the stadium about an 300 31. 2 Otis Hill (White Plains, Y) C 2/ 13/ 65 hour and a quarter before the race. The stadium was jammed to 440 49 .2 George Rainey (White Plains, C 2/ 22/ 64 capacity. There was also a track meet with, among others, steeple 600 1:11.5 Joe Mullins (Huntington, Boston) Brunswick 3/ 3/ 56 chaser Gaston Roelants and discus thrower Ludvik Danek, but the 880 1:52.8 Tom Sullivan (St George, Evanston}Chicago 1/ 14/ 61 stands would have been jammed anyway. The marathon is the main 1000 2:10. 5 Tom Sullivan (St George, Evanston)Chicago 3/ 10/ 61 event and signs annotmcing ( ed.zinarodneho Maratonu Mieru Mile 4:07 .2 Jim Ryun (East, Wichita, Kans) Manhattan 3/ 27 / 65 or International arathon Race) were up all over the town. We 2Mile 8:40 . 0 Gerry Lindgren (Rogers, Spokane) S Francisco2 / 15/ 64 passed half a dozen TV cameras being set up on the streets. Our 3Mile 13:37 .8n Gerry Lindgren (Rogers, Spokane) YC 2/ 22/ 64 race would be witnessed in Prague. 6 OHHa7. 0 Ken Coniglio (Loughlin, Brooklyn) YC 1/ 27 / 62 We had our medical examinations the afternoon before (which 60HHl17.1 Richmond Flowers (Lanier, Mont) Memphis 2/27 / 65 included a blood sample and a complete EKG) so we had nothing to do 60HHc7 .2 Milt Campbell (Plainfield, ] YC 2/ 14/ 53 but wait. At around 12:30 we marched onto the field, each country's 70HH .4 Eric McCaskill (Huntington, pt) Washington /6 5 team behind a scout carrying a nameplate, and stood for a ceremony 60LH 6 .8 Charles Houston ( ew Bruns wick ) / 63 which seemed briefer than it had two years ago. There were num - 6.8 George Byers (Central, KC, Mo) Kansas City2 / 26/ 65 bered bags for us to throw our sweats in and the race began sharply 70LH 7. Dan Darby (Hammond, Alexandria) Lexington 2/ 9/63 at 1: 00 with the booming of cannons and doves fluttering in o the air. 7. J . V • Johnson (East, Wichita, Kans)Manhatta.n 3/ 27 / 65 Uncertain of my form I had decided on a conservati e race HJ 6'10¼" Bill McClellan (Clinton, YC) YC 1/ 23/ 65 and at the 15- kilo checkpoint (which I reached in somewhere around PV 16'¾" Paul Wilson (Warren, Downey, Cal)LosAngeles2 / 13/ 65 17:00), I was still behind Scott. He was wearing a shirt i h LJ 23' 11¾" Bob Brown (Male, Louisville, Ky) Louisville 2/ 27 / 65 "Alaska " and the Alaskan flag emblazoned on it and wore his number SP-1263'11" Gene Crews (University City, Mo) Columbia 3/24 / 62 over his jock for full advertising value. SP-16 53'5 " Randy Matson (Pampa, Tex) Lubbock 2/ 2/ 63 1 'm going a bit too fast, " he said as I went by. He had 8 OR 1: 30 .1 Boys, Brooklyn, YC YC 3/ 6/ 65 planned to pass that mark in 1 : 30. MileR3:20 .1 DeLaSalle Institute, YC C 2/ 26/ 38 At Kosice you receive your time every 5000 via a signboard 3:20.1 DeLaSalle Institute, YC YC 3/ 12/ 38 that tells you within 30s the elapsed time. But a few of the sign - 2MR 7:49. 2 Molloy, Jamaica, YC YC 2/27 / 64 (Continued on page 45) TRACK EWSLETTBR December 9, 1965 Page 45 I
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1965 NCAA JAVELIN 1llROWERS (by Steve .Murdock)
(Bottom, from left to right) ]Ir CLARK (U anta Barbara), 16th; BlJCK KIPE ( a ~h ), 9th; JOH1. TU HAU (Ariz), 1st: BOB BRO 't ( an Jo e t), fo; ROBERT LA. 1BERT ( ...r Force), 6th . December 9, 1965 Page 46