SIXTH ANNUAL SPRINGBANK INTERNATI@NAt SUNDAY, SEPTEMBEB 23td, 1973, LONDON, ONTABTO

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Running to victory in the rain, Olympic champion Frank Shorter winds up Animal Hill r:rlv in the {inal lap of last year's Springbank '1 2'. J

The top three finishers in the '72 High School '3'all broke the previous record of 14:23,b. ln orderoffinish (leftto right) Doug l\4undell, Burlingron, 14:06.2;Don Howieson. St. Catharines. 14:12.9; and Greg Duhaime, North Bay, 14:19.4.

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Eventual w;nner Barry Brown (in Florida vest) and Canadian Olympian Grant McLaren (6'1 ) are up at the front of a large pack going up Animal Hill 500 yards out.

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At the end of one lap {completed in a moderate 13:40) only three are left: McLaren, Brown and Toronto's Ken Hamilton (79). With about a mile to go. and the race for first now down to two, Brown starts a finishing drive that drops Mc Laren.

Brown sprints down the homestretch. His last mile gave him a quick 6:38,5 for the short second lap of the race. Among previous '4y2' winnerc, only Frank Shorter in his record run in l g70 had a faster time for this section of the race - 6:32.8 Dickson, Bricker voted into rUhne

Six-time Canadian marathon champion the'59 Pan-American Games in Chicaqo. Gord Dickson of Hamilton and the brilliant He won Hamilton's historic Around -the- road racer of the 1920s and 30s, the Galt' Bay Race an unprecedented five times, Waterloo area's Cliff Bricker, have been twice setting new records. ln '1960 he elected to the Canadian Road Runners Hall represented Canada in the marathon at of Fame. the Rome Olympics.

The induction ceremonies will take place at the Springbank lnternational Road Races in London, September 23.

The two are the seventh and eighth men to be inducted into the hall. Preceding them were Tom Lonqboat, Gerard Cote, Billy Sherring, Scotty Rankioe. Jack Caffrey and Johnny l\/liles.

Dickson, born (in 1932) and raised in Alberta, came to the Hamilton area after graduating from university in the United States A runner of rather modest talent in high school and even in college, the reed'thin, red-haired athlete quickly came into his own in the long distances, part,cularly Ihe marathon, after moving to Hamilton. His 2:21.50 for the distance in 1957 was the 1(hh fastest time in the world. And his 2t24.O4 a year later was 12th fastest.

He was named winner ot the Norton H. Crowe Award as the top amateur athlete in Canada in 1958 and 1959.

ln all Dickson won ten Canadian championships - six in the marathon, ihree in cross'country and one at six miles on the track. He was fifth in the marathon at the in CardiiJ. Gord Dickson winning a 15 mile race in the Wales in '58 and third in the same event at early sixties. ly douq poweps I.INIITED frne appap€t fop Laor€s ano m€n

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From 1957 to at least 1964 Dickson was Now running in seniors events ("still rre reigning king oi Canadian road racing competing when tendons permit"), he is and there is no saying how much more he presently chairman of long distance running :r ght have accomplished if not for a series for the Southwestern Ontario branch oI the 3f leg injuries that plagued him from '59 Canadian Track and Field Association. He cnwards, now lives in Burlington and is an accountant with the Halton County Board of Education.

Cliff Bricker had a brilliant record in road races in the period 1924"'1932- His first ever race was over 10 miles in Hamilton in '24. He won it, beating runners who had been sec- ond and third in the Canadian Olympic trials. ln 1925 he won the Canadian '10-mile champ- ionship, set records at the Guelph Road Races 15 mile(1;18) and the Canadian National Exhibition '12 mile on the track. He also set a Canadian record for 10 miles on the road, recording 49:20" He won allthe races he ran that year except for a single setback to Johnny Miles in a 1s-mile test at Toronto. And that's about the way the rest of Bricker's road racing career was to go, an almost end- less string of victories and only rarely, very rarely, a defeat.

ln 1927 he was fourth in the behind winner Clarence DeMar. But he came back to beat DeMar in the Buffalo marathon later that year.

Bricker was a member of both the 1928 and the 1 932 Olympic teams, ln each of those Games he was the first Canadian to finish in the marathon, ahead of such illustrious Canadian distance runners as Miles and Harold Webster.

Cliff Bricker. 1928. Now in his 70s, Cliff Bricker is typically active on his farm near Waterloo.

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The 1972 Springbank ''12' was not the fastest yet run, although not {ar from it, nor was it as competitively close as some others. But what it had was concentration oi talent that stood out like a jewel. lvlost prominent entrant, of course, was the Florida Track Club's Frank Shorter, who less than a month earlier had won the gold medal in the Olympic l\4arathon, first American since '1908 to do so. Also entered was 's Karel Lismont, who had taken the marathon silver behind Shorter at Munich. And finally there was the great British runner , the pre-lvlunich favorite in the marathon who had suffered an off-day on the most important day of his career and finished a disappointing, to him, sixth. Shorter, Lismont and Hill atthe'T2Springbank''12'-'itwasalmostlikeN.4unichall over again at just half the distance.

Ar 17a miles Hill (2), Lismont (4) and Shorter (1 ) are in the front rank of a Ieading group ol six u..

Above) The break came surprisingly early. l,ith 600 yards to so in the first lap, Shorter ?Jrsts away from Hill, Lismont and, further -ck, Toronto's Brian Armstrong (9), Going -c Animal Hill on the second lap it was $orter on his own (right) with Hill and -ismont givingchase, Holding a steady, fast pace, Shorter gradually lengthened his lead. lt was five seconds at one lap, 14 at two.

Hill, who left Lismont behind at 4 miles, stayed within striking ranqe for two laps, then suffered a severe stitch in the third lap and fell well back. i I the fourth lap rain had began to '. l. a first for the Springbank -:ernational. Shorter and Hill, now 31 seconds apart, start up Animal - I the final time.

'-':her back, Lismont suddenly has : :-::rle on his hands for third against -: ietermined Brian Armstrong. The finish - - Frank Shorter 25 yards from the tape.

Hill is second, Lismont has repulsed Armstrong's challenge and takes third. fl T

:'3nk Shorter recovers after the finish. (Above) on the victory stand, a smiling Frank Shorter centres a thoughtful Ron Hilland the seemingly always serious Karel Lismont. (Right) Signing autographs, a chore that comes automatically with being an Olympic champion.