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TRACKNHWSLETTER SupplementingTRACK &. FIELD NEWS twice monthly. Vol. 10, No. 15 March 4, 1964 Page 113 O'Hara, Crothers in Snappy Victories Covelli Tosses Spear 260'7" , by Mike Lester Long Beach, Feb .. 29--Frank Covelli highlighted the first ma New York City, Feb. 27--Top quality performances in nearly jor outdoor me~t in southern California by tossing the javelin 260'7" every event on the program featured the New York Knights of Col um - at the Long Beach Relays . bus meet at Madison Square Garden and ended the local series of in - The javelin, which was not held in view of the 1600 spectators vitational indoor meets· on a high note. or 1600 athletes, found USC graduate !-lobSbordone beating current Tom o•ttara raced through a 3:58 .5 mile, the second fastest Trojan Larry Stuart by a single inch, 249"7" to 249'6". Fourth place ever run indoors, and pulled Candian Ergas Leps to a personal best went to Bud Held, former world record holder, who threw a credit oft 4:03 .6. The Loyola of Chicago senior took over the lead shortly able (for a 36-year-old) 238'7". aft~t.the halfway mark and sealed his victory with a final 880 in 1:55.9. Camp Pendleton.' s Jim Heath turned in a 46 . 8 effort which was Bill Crothers made his final indoor appearance of the season good enough to hold off the Striders' Don Webster and Arizona State's in New York a memorable occasion for the crowd of 12,602. He first Henry Carr, who sizzled a 46.5. The Marines finished in 3:11.2, · won the 600 in a snappy 1:09. 7 from Tom Farrell (1:11.0) and Jay followed by the Striders in 3:12.0 and ASU in 3:13.6. Luck (1:11.3), and then returned to the track to anchor the East York Dave Davis, also at Pendleton, competed for the second time Track Club to a spectacular come-from-behind triumph in 3:20.1 since last summer because of hand injury and produc~d a 59'0" win-: with a 47 .2 anchor leg in a special club one-mile relay. ning effort. Bob Channell, a Fresno State freshman, beat John Ram Bruce Kidd extended his string of indoor victories in New York, bo on the misses rule as both cleared 6'9!'~. stretching back to 1961, with a thrilling two-yard win over Ron Clarke Three sophomores and junior from UCLA combined to run a in 8:39.0. Behind the pair of foreign runners. an American trio of good early season 9:53.6 distance medley and the Striders zipped to Tom Laris (8:45.8)., Pat Traynor (8:47 .6), and Oscar Moore (8:48 .8) a swift 1:24.6 880-yard relay. each established career records for the event . Jeff Fishback decisively beat 67 other three-mile entrants in In other top performances on the track, Morgan State's four- 13;52.4, while Ray Hughes won an odd-distance two-mile steeplechase 0-some posted a fast 3: 16. 5 to take the mile relay, AAU 600 titlist in a relatively good 9:44 . 0 . Charlie Buchta won the 1000 in 2:08. 7 from John Dunkelberg (2:09 ,4), 100, McNeil (Compton JC) 9. 7. 3Mile, Fishback 13:52.4; 2. Mel Pender nipped Sam Perry in a 6 .1 60, and Ron Zinn walked a mile Jenkins (So Cal) 14:06.6; 3. Weeks (UCLA) 14:09.6; 4.: Rodda (LATC) . m 6:22. 1 from scratch in a handicap race. 14:18.6. 2Mile Steeplechase, Hughes (LATC) 9:44.0. 440R, Fresno · .· Com~tition in the high jump and triple jump was so close that State 41.1 (Bryant, Craig, Nickolas, Newman); 2. Striders 41.6. _ ·tii,.,brealting rules had to be used in both events in order to determine 880R, Striders 1:24.6 (Williams, Larrabee, Webster, Plummer 20.4) : . : the winner. John Thomas and Tony Sneazwell were tied exactly on 2. C Pendleton 1:26.1; 3. Arizona State 1:26.5. MileR, Camp..Pen J:/~misses after having failed three times at 7'1", so each took an addi- dleton 3:11.2 (Edmunds, Metzger, Carroll, Heath); 2. Striders ' · tionatjmnp at that height and Thomas cleared the bar to gain the vie- 3:12.0; 3. Arizona State 3:13.6. 2MileR, Striders (Jennings, Far .· ~y. Ira Davis and Chris Mousiades each leaped 50'10" in the triple low, Williams, Pelster) 7:36.2; 2. LATC 7:39.2; 3. Oxy 7:42.4; ~:;:> jump but Davis' second-best effort of 50'8" decided the event in his 4. Arizona 7:45.8. SpMedR, Camp Pendleton 3:31.5. DisMedR, bivor. UCLA 9:53.6 (Mavrinac 49.7, Breckow 1:52.2, Clibborn 3:06.1, Day :,, Gary Gubner and John Uelses were the other winners in the 4:05.6); 2. LATC 10:06.6. ?> field events. Gubner a&ain defeated Parry O'Brien, 62'8¼" to 61'6", 1 !:!J.,Channell (Pres St) 6'9£"; 2. Rambo (Long Beach St) 6'9¾) · and Uelses vaulted 16 4" to outdistance Rolando Cruz, C. K. Yang, 3. Park (So Cal) 6'7£". ·PV, Yang (PAA) 15'5"; 2. Ankio (Strid) 15'51';: ·and Henry Wadsworth, each of whom cleared 15'6''. 3. Hein (Strid) 15'5"; 4 .Martensen (Ariz) 15'5". ·!!hMoseley (Strid) 60, Pender (US Army) 6.1 (EMR); 2. Perry (Fordham); 3. Brown 23'7". Th Craig (Fres St) 49 ..9¼''; 2. Andrews (Strid) 47'9¾"; 3. (PPC); 4. Jackson (Morgan St). 600, Crothers 1:09.7; 2. Farrell Woods (Strid) 47'6!". SP, Davis (C Pendleton) 59'0"; 2. Mills (So Cal) (StJohn's)).:il.O; 3. Luck (New Haven TC) 1:11.3; 4. Mays (Grand 57'1¼"; 3. Kohner (C Pendleton) 56'2';; 4. Clark (C Pendleton) 55'4¼". St Boys) 1:12.1. 880, Bauer (St John's) 1:54.5. 1000, Buchta (US Ma- !!I, Mills 171'9"; 2. Neville (Oxy) 169'9"; 3. Kohler 166'11". ffi ,,"· :rines) 2:08.7; 2. Dunkelberg (NCTC) 2:09.4; 3. Duchini (George- Covelli (PAA) 260'7"; · 2. Sbordone (C Pendleton) 249'7";. 3. Stuart , ipwn) .2:11.6. Mile, O'Hara 3:58.5 (MR); 2. Leps (I'TC) 4:03.6; 3. (So Cal) 249'6"; 4. Held 238'7". HT, Pryde (SBAC) 192'7"; 2. Frenn · ;<'Schul (Miami, 0) 4:07 .9. Two-Mile, Kidd 8:39 .O; 2. Clarke (Austra (LongBeach St) 185'10½"; 3. Lennon(Cal Poly) 164'4½". c" ")la) 8:39~2; 3. Laris (Army) 8:45.8; 4. Traynor (Delaware Val AA) fc··,:s=:47.6; 5. Moore (NYPC) 8:48 .S. 60HH, Hicks (US Army) 7 .3; 2. · .~. ·:GilberL(BOC); 3. Rogers (GSB); 4. Bethea (Morgan St). MileR, Mor . :ga,..nState (Moore 50.5, Bagley 48.9, Brown 49.3, Lee 47 .8) 3:16.5 Hayes Jones' Last Race: . Record 6. 8 ~R); 2. St. John's 3:18.2; 3. Villanova 3:18.2. 2MileR, Seton Hall by Steve Gould j/( (I'olentino 1:58.1, Andrew 1:52.9, H. Germann 1:53.0., G. Germann l:50.8). Baltimore, Feb. 29--Hayes Jones won his 55th consecutive, ~·.:: ·.·. HJ, Thomas (Boston AA) 7'1"; 2. Sneazwell (Australia) 6'11"; 3. and his last, indoor hurdle race at the 18th All - Eastern Games here :"};•Nfi.Oer (Rutgers) 6'7"; 4. Palacias (Guatemala) 6'7". _TI,I. Davis tonight, setting a world record of 6 .8 seconds which even he did not t'(:"-,,(PPCJ 50'10"; 2. Mousiadis (NYAC) 50 '10"; 3. Sharpe (PPC) 49'8!"; believe. Jones said he was sore at the starter who had called what f/>4. Tate (N Car C) 47'10". PV, Uelses (La Salle) 16'¼"; 2. Cruz he thought was an incorrect false start on Russ Rogers, was feeling ·i AVill) 15'6"; 3. tie between Yang and Wadsworth (NYAC) 15'6". SP, depressed, but wanted to do his best in the last indoor race of his _['fl·~ubner 62'8¼"; 2. O'Brien 61'6"; 3. Wallin (Northeastern) 57'4¼". career. He didn't think he had run as fast as 6. 8. John Thomas cleared 7'2!'', setting another. of the eight meet records with the best leap of the indoor season. Thomas' height was j&i.~\l:erome.Returns, Ties Indoor 60 his best jump since January 1961 and his third best ever; he has done 7'3" indoors and 7'3¾'' outdoors. He had only one miss on the way up, ~fl: Portland, Ore., Feb. 29--Harry Jerome gave a strong indica- clearing 7'¾" on his first try, 7'.l¾" on his second, and 7'2£'' on his flli•,ction th~t his running days are not over. first. ]t0 :f,:,. The Canadian sprinter, competing in his second meet in 15 Pete McArdle won the two-mile in 8:52.8 beating Vic Zwolak b'E,?months, flashed to a 6. O 60-yard dash mark, which a week previous- who shadowed him all the way. National indoor broad jump champ, 12f:1fwould have equalled the world indoor best. It provided a most en Charlie Mays f!f.ally won, a 600, tactically holding off Nick J.,ee, Chris ~r~:¢0ll;r,:.aging sign that the University of Oregon senior is completely Stauffer, and Jay Luck in 1: 13. 5. .Rolando Cruz of Villanova reached ~.'..;::'.~cli~aledfrom the thigh muscJe tear suffered at the 1962 British Empire 16 '0" for the second time this winter .