OFB^IOfor 1959-60 Presidenti Ted Qorbitt (NYFC)^ ^2kO Broadway^ NY 65, BY Vice-Presidents Joe Kleinerman (Miirose AA)^ 262^ Claflin Av©*,Bronx 66, m Secretary-Treasurer: John Sterner (NYPC)^ 6IO Trinity Ave.,Bronx, NY
li £ 2. S. £ • During the awards cereraonies at the Yonkers Marathon and final Clynspic
trial, the RHO, NYA paid tribute to John A. Kelley, or Johnny Kelley
the ^Ider, the ajarathon genius who has probably cracked 5 hours raore than any runner in
the history of the sport in the Western Hemisphere. The "Amazing Mr. Kelley's" record
all the more remarkable when you realise that no raatter how talented one is or how
rigidly he adheres to a training regisjon, disaster always lurks in the background.
A coRSQiittee of Kurt Steiner, Harry Murphy, and Ted Corbitt arranged the affair.
Milroae raaa Murphy prepared a beautiful scroll which was presented to Kelley by RRC
meiaber Bob Campbell of Watertown, Mass, Kelley's great record and continued inspiring
perfortsances stirred Kurt to suggest the presentation. Altho now past the half century
mark, Kelley's performance at Yonkers would have been good enough to get hica on raost
pre 1956 Olympic marathon teams from the USA. Congratulations John A. Kelleyi
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THAT WAS CLOS^—RHO scribe John Ohodes was into an operating room in a local
hospital in early April,I96O for corrective on his knee which had long hampered
running. To quote the Pioneer marathoner, "Just as the doctor was about to make an incision—the knife was poised in the air—I casually commented (X was only given a local anesthetic, so I was still conscious) that in recent weeks, the pain had diminished |'>soTKeifhat» The doctor suddenly becaig© quite red and hurriedly had me taken upstairs to my r room. I was araazed.a.He later explained to me that he had diagnosed ay injury corapletely wrong. Instead of a tuisor in isy knee, which he had originally said was the culprit, he was forced tc admit that I had nothing ojore serious than an injured nerve in the joint that produced reactions very similar to a tumor» It seems that tumors in joints (neuromas) never reverse themselves, th^ merely become more disabling with time. That is why he stopped the operation» He put me on a program of mild jogging, around 4 times a week. Gradually over a period of months I am to build up speed and distance...If my knee shows no adverse reactions, I may be able to run competitively a|rain within a year or sOo" ARATHCW TRAINING FOR THE BEGIN NSR A by A.L. Monte^erde, Loe Angelea, JenA6A960. dfeiame W^^WICoacbT
The prospective mrathoner should first go and get an exaiaioation as to his health
and plirsical fitneas. Thia accoiaplished, find out if hia finances and home pertaite
him to negotiate hia aiybition. Ne^ he should go to a chiropodist and have hira care
for the feat, Gailouees and ingrown to© nails are the ®ost seYore handicaps of
distance runners.
Go to a good ehoemaker and get some well fitted shoes. Shoe© should be half incL
longer than the foot and the saia© in width, Jotey Miles won the B.A.A, Marathon with
a cheap pair of sneakers and hea^ woolen socks. But raoat eucceesful runner® of paet
days wore leather (kangaroo) and proper fitting socks: linen or nylon: white—one inch
longer than the feet. Dress warsa in cold weather.
Now the most important thing in running or walking is breathing, lou have to ©xerciee
this as you would your legs and feet, Q^gen is what keeps you alive. To use ©aiae is
the raost important thing in life. All of successful winneras Hayes, Dengia, Seraple
(runners) mad© this an important part of training and competitiono
After this is accomplished, go and start walking five miles daily for a months Then
acquire an easy jog or stride a mile and walk a mile and repeat until you cover gjx
mil^. Bathe end self massage yourself. Continue thia for three months. Then tvin
two miles, walk one and cover eight miles. Continue this for a month.
Next step is to run five miles—easy aiid with no punishment or strain, toother month.
During this month you will learn the beat, and easiest form for you, Bow you can
start in trial runa with othere, ^ter runs to observe others as to their form and
style. Never in training punish yourself,
A@ to the physical make up of the marathoner, eiae^ height, and weight are the principle measurea to observe. Hayes was 128 lbs,j Gregory Kohelemainen
Hurmi Zatopek mid many more,
Kohelemainen was a vegetarian. He won in the Olympics for Finland and carae to the USA and won many races. When I was located at Johnstown^ H.Io, he was a mason and working on building of a church at Glen Falls, N.Y, We trained on Sundays. Ran ten lailes &M
^Talked, One Sunday v/e v;alked 50 lailes^ He ims really tired r^t the firnnh. onv^^. to a r©8ts.urast I patronised in Joimstown, My order wae for a portersteak, H© informed
ffi© he nerer ate meat. After much pleading he joined me In eating jaeat. He won the 1920
Marathon in 2s52sl9 and retired,
Dengis was qy pupil at M&jb Landings N.J. An eight lap traok was built in back of
the houa®. Hie wife corataitted suicide on a Christmas raoiti. He was h©ld for questioning
and found innocent. He was advised to tak© up (running. The coach of the Baltiiaore i
Crosscountry Club made him run on his toes. H© broke down and caiae to live with me at
Mays Landing, N.J. In six njonths he won his first marathon and beoarae a charapion
winning ten full distance marathons before his ^eath in a plane crash. He and John
Seiaple trained at place at this time. * Join a Oomaiitee * "The place where unnaturalness shows Former Japanese Olysjpi^ SHOXCHIRO TAKSMAKA most clearly in the runner is in th© arias. To sjucceed in freeing the anas is to undo
th© strain over the entire body. But to call, ®kelax your arais I,* is not a good
^auggestion because most ninnere probably do not Understand how to relax or what it feels
like to relax. The rumier must learn to recognia© tension and to release tension by
practice^
"To a coach the runnerfaislts are very conspieuous but when or how to correct theta
depends on the coaches skills. Ryimer® seem to pe unsatisfied unless th© coach points
ou.t some faults in their form* Th^ tend to ha¥©, the illusion of having for® corrected
inerely by having the faults pointed out^ but the coach should B.ot be drawn into th©
runner^s psychology^"
^ « ^ ^ ^ Jis
on isarathon courses should be lap courses^ any sis© I'^p froia a laile to ssy^ flvei that once determined on^ the course should be tseasured by 661 yard surv^f-ors chain or similar. The coure© should be ass level as poseible^ TSsus eancetling out hills and wind« The course is measured accurately ifhere the runner will run a^,, is dons in tracks This cancels out all variations and gives some uniforisity for comparison between different countries and efforts. Classical courses like the Boston could siand« But all chaispionship courses Ihotjld be as I describe. They are better for spectators! officials? and around or thru Farks—ideald> Ignore th© charge of boredoig by inferior runners^" i According to Seoff Watt, Percy Qerutty's new bodk is out. It is called^ ATHLETICS: How to Become a Ohajspion.'^ Watt says^ "I thought ii a lot of the essential factors in it and suiamrized his teachings and philosophy fairly well." CLUB, NSW YORK ^SOOIATICN—ROSTER
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Sarcor)a,F. Smith, Fran Smith. July i960 Track & Pie.i.d D^^elopiaen't Mee't. Pennington Parkj, Fatersorij K.J, PM. Open Meet. Travel Perisit needed« Post ©ntriee. 6 & 5 Mil© Runs^ 2 Mile Walk, 880, 220 and 100 yards.
* COUHSI^ M^ASUaHM^IT—On Simds^ June 19, I960 starting at 7^00 AM at MoCombs Daja Park, the "Gherjy Tree Marathoi;!'^ Qourse will b© laeaeured, John Steitier and Hick Bllotta are oo-chairtaen of the tea.m of 10 volunteers and will b© assisted by America's newest Earathon sensation^ Engineer Gordon McKonisi©^ After th© laeasureraent a pi'actic© relajr race will be organised ty Joe Kleinersaian. It will start about llsOOM and ivlll be run over the above mentioned MeOoisbs Daia coursec You are invited to take r>art<.
OOAOKING—For those rmmern who warit guidance we have another knowing ooach who is ready and able to offer assii^tanoo. His narses BILL WIKLUND^ 25 Oliff Hill Road, Clifton New Jersey, He is interesteil in track and road runners. He has acted as trainer for eoae of the greatest ultra-ltr^ng distance runners of all time5 and he haa caet and observed rnoet of the past /c^reats. Bill approaches training the way the Finns do it» And their method is individual study rather than njass teaching. Bill says, "Mo one can learn to do a sport V reading. It can help but v.laual analysis brings out defect© a runner doesnH know he has. However, I will ane ^ler a;ny and all letters to the best of ability." "As to own running experiences, X have run Boston l4 tisses, finishing 12 tiiaes. 2 placed 4th in 19^4 end 7th 5. .1 1945, % poorest shotting waa 22nd place. % first distance coach was Hugo Qwisit, who also coached Paavo Hursji, V/illie Hitola and John Salo..ol ran 10 years for the Millrose Olub with Pat Dengis^ Mel Porter, Lou Gregory as teaianaatea, have x'un Icjnkers 12 tiiaes finishing as high as 4th place. My worst showing was 7th place, I woe Metropolitan Cha^iapion in 1944,"
Gordon McKensie (NYPO) and JJ Kelley (BAA) provided 0urprlses in the first of two Olyaapic Marathon trials; the BAA Run. Oongratulations Gordon i... Rudy Mendez has been ill or bf» low par healths^rise during April in all but on© of the laet half dosen years...Four years €i.go Jiia Green sat in the dressing roosj following the 195^ BAA (Olympic trial) bemoaning the fact that Ms heavy training had gotten him no-wher©^ Hie '^break-thru" aa®® just ir tiaie for his bid at this Olympiad.. .John Sterner predicted^ in writing, that McKensi® wou],id do 2:2^ at Boston...Foraer President of the Victorian Marathon Olub (Australia) Beri ie Gardiner, fonaer Australian walking chaiapions ran a half 33ile in about 2 lainutes and a 'marathon in juat over 5 hours^ all on walking training... It was reported in the daily r©as that the fained, and heavily used I04A Five Mile Van Oortlaxidt Park cross-country i ourae was surveyed by students of Manhattan College and found to b© over J lail© she? t. The two tail© loop has long been suspect but it seems fantastic that the course ooi Id be that short. Maybe another check is in order... Runners were literally shocL a at the crack up of two of Bostonmost stable running machines at Yonkers: ' reen and Gonfalon®. Their heartbreaking experiences have been shared others under s; isilar circumstance9,..In I876, Ataerican Arm^ officers with stop watchesJ clocked a : awnee Indian named Koo-Tah-we~cots—oo-Lel-E-Hoo-La-Sliarj, in 5s58 for the isila (Source Believe it or Hot)...Glen Ounninghaia also reported to have cracked 4 rainutee in pra jtice years before it becafae a conraion occurrence., .Sd Dunoan credited with identioa 2s55:05 times at "Cherry Tree Marathon" and Yonkers—his first two efforts...McKenzio a great ta.lent or gift for marathon running. However^ his closest observers feel th he may not be quite interested enough to laake a big effort to toughen hiiaself up ^o becorae the world's fastest in the Long Run. He could do it, it sa/s