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1 , \ , r TRACKNEWSLETTER. : ~g:' ~m.e1l~Sk1rER.•. ,-pi \OFFIC\I\L PIJeLIC/\ilON Of 1"Rt>CI<.NUiS Of ii-IE 'W@.\.t>J\l~l\llc.) Vol. 6, No. 9. Dec. 9, 1959 Semi-:-Monthly $6 per yea_t by nr:st class mail NEWS WASHINGTON INTRASQUAD MEET, Nov. l:'9: (indoors} 1320, Larson, 3:08. 2; 300, Lomax, 33.3; 75, Mapes, 8.1; 70HH, Olberg, 8.9; 660, Harder, 1:23.6; l½miles, Miller, 7:12.1; PV~ Cramer (frosh) 14'0"; HJ, House, Shinnick, Thrall, 6'3"; SP, Angell, 50'2"; DT, Hunt, 143'·8¼"; BJ, Strickler, 2'215". " _ _ · _ STANFORD. FALL CHAMPIONSHIPS, Dec ·4: 4tl0, Chesarek 48. 9, Emanuels 49. 8; 880, Lundh 1:53. 8, Klier 1:54. 7; Wu.le, MonziI?,go4: 20. 4; 2 Mile, Cunliffe 9:la.i-, HH, . Cobb 14. 7, Klicker 14. 8; Martin 14. 9; LH - Thomason 23. 6; Klicker 24. 2; Cobb 24. 2; · " r SP, Winters 50'4¾"; JT, Kitching, 224'8"; BJ, Kelly 23'3¾"; DT, Limmer, 153'6". ALL-COMERS MEET, Occidental College, Dec. 5: _All Oxy unless noted. 100,. Smith, 10. 5; 220, Tie, Smith and Haas (frosh) 22. 0; 440, Farmer (frosh) 48~ 9; 3 Mile, 1 r Mundie (Striders) 14:54. 6; HH, Treat 15. 4; LH, Farmer (frosh) 23. 6; HJ, Barnes 6'f'; ,/ PV, Helms 14'9½"; Tie, Copp and Servis 14'; SP, Roberts (formerly Butt) (Striders) 56'4½"; Lewis 55'9½" (extra trial 56'2¾''); Pagani (NYAC) 54'8"i Johnson 53'2"; DT, Just (una.) 160'½"; Lewis 155'5"; Carl (LBState) 151'9½"; JT, Seymou~ (Striders) 222'9½"; English (Mt. Sac) 217"; Covelli (Oxnard AFB) 209'6½"; Luesebrink 207'10"; 35 lb. WT; Connolly (Striders) 62'4!''; Pagani 60'8'.'; Women's discus, Connolly 159'11½". ,,- 1 11 AUSTRALIA, Melbourne, Nov. 22: HJ, Porter, Ridgway, 6 6 · • Sydney, Nov. 28: l00m Brown 10. 6w; 1500 Power, 3:58. o; 200LH (turn) Prince, 23. 9; BJ, Prince, 23'6½". Melbourne, Nov. 28: 440, Gosper 47. 9; Stanton 48. 7; Mile, (a) Henderson 4:11. 0 (Stephens fourth in 4:1'9. 6); (b) Sullivan 4d3.l, Russell ~1:13.2, Blackney 4:13. 2; (c) Oakley 4:14. 9; (d) Stacy 4:16~1, Thackwray 4:18. 7. Melbourne, Dec. 3: l00m I?aker 10. 5, Earle 10. 7, Williams 10. 7; 400m, Gosper 47. 4, Stanton ,48. 5, Randall 48. 8; 1500,\ Oakley 3:54. 7; BJ, Tomlinson 23'2½", Jack, 23'2½" ' _. - BULLETIN BOARD Next Newsletters ' Dec. 23; 'Jan. 6, 20. Track & Ficld News mailed Dec. 31. ,.. Gerald Glockner, a trackrnan from East Germany, would like to know the ad.dress of an American trackman who knows the German language • .His address is: Rackwitz/Leipzig, Leipziger _St:t. 21, Germany (Soviet Zone). - _ A gift subscriptionAo Track & Field Ne:-vs is wanted by Helmut MHdn,¢r, also a.'Gerrriari track:rnan. His address is: Reichenbach 4, Post Unt_erloquitz, Kreis '.SaaHled/Saale, Ger- . many. WIND SPRINTS / .. , ; · Billy Mills, the Uni~ersity of .Kansas junior, . will represent the United' Stat~ 's in the New Year's Eve road race at Sao Paulo, Brazil, Mills wa~. the first U.S. citizen to finish in both the NCAA and National AAU cross country meets ••• Shot putter Charley \, Butt has had his last name legally changed toRoberts •• ·• Australian Dick Leffler recently liad a measured hammer throw of 210 feet in practice at Melb9ume University ••• Bob / Vagg, one of Australia's hopes in the 10,000, does 80 miles a week 1 in training with n~ work on the track. I 1 '( , NOT EIJ WITH \ '- \ / l1 TN Emerson Case! ,of Fair Oaks, Calif., ,vrote a histo:t:y of indoor running tracks 11 1 and 1here .is how.it .'.appearcd, in aii issue of "The Amateur Athlete; . • As early as 1868-ah indoor track was laic;l out by the n(~wly-formed New York c.. Athletic Club at the old Empire City Skating Rink on Third avenue, between 63rd and 64th streets This , ctght-lap track was marked o,ut on the hard earth, and ithe chlb held its first 1 indoor meet - - 191 years (ago. In 1889, the Boston ,Athlqtic Association held its first indoor meet and since that .,,_ · time indoor tracks composed of boards, c}nders, dirt and other mat~rials have been 'built in the U.S., Canada, Europe and South America. Most of the American tracks arc in the }- Northeast, Midwest and' Rocky Mountain areas, where weather Gonditions do not generally permit' outdoor workouts. And one, should include in this category 'the outdoor board tr~.cks at such institutions as New York University (11laps), Columbia, Fordham, St. John's , and . Manhattan Co~lege in Ne_wYork, Princeton in New Jersey, • the ,Univer,sity of Pennsylvania and Harvard (where one wais built as early as 1892). These bankec.1tracks are used pri- r . marily to practice for the indoor meets' •and in some cases for "Polar I Bear" meets as at . \ Columbia, Prhiceton and Pennsylvania in the winter. Also ·Yale has an outdoor composition track surrdtmdi.qg a 10;-lap board track. · , , , ,.. Many schools in the Midwest, · Rocky Mountains and Northeast have indoor tracks i / · of dirt, clay, ci_nders or some combination .the.reof . Some m;e banked, some are flat, and -',i their siz~ usually range from eleven to six laps per mile. II} so,xic;,:cases, · as at Yale, board tr3:cks ·haye been laid inside ort .~m to aid in training for the indoor season. Some colleges, such as Bates in Main~, have both a dirt or . cinder track and a board oval (the latter in the balcony)., . · ' Best,kn_own colleGe meets held : on a flat armory floor (with no spikes permitted) l t l are the annual Yale ~Cornell affair ancl' the Heptagonal Games. Both these meets are h9ld in Cornell's Barton. Hall on a 220yard track. Other eight-lap tracks are -n1ai;:ked out ori the ,floors of the l02nd iEnginecrs Armory in New York (scene of the az:mual Metropolitan : Championships)/ the 36th llegiment ,Arm9ry (also in New York City and the locale of the annual Pioneer Club il\vitation .meet), the 5th Regiment Armory in Baltimore and the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C. _(scene of the Washington Star Games). Also the old indoor tracks were flat, often with sharp turns, and this , fact should be kept in mind when compar:i,Flg the olct'timer,s ,with modern stars. , · , In the past, many meets were held at Buffcllo al;'mories and in the Boston and New . , Haven .(rt~Il:as (all boaFd tracks) as well as at Hartfor<l, ' Conn.~ which had a flat floor., :and,; btl1er cities. Sqme of .the old board tracks in national guard armories were laid in cement - and were "<lea4," Even the board track at the old Madison Square Garden on which Paavo Nurmi set several records in 1925 was unbankecf and laid on a dirt floor. This t1;ack was dismantl'ed along with the building the following spring, llowevet, as late as 1939, a similar 'track was in use 'u1 Buffalo. Some reccrds set on flat floors ' have ri.ot been recogriizc.>d becaqse of the al:>~enc.e 6£ a raised border. It was felt that some . runners were able to cover less than the statea distance~ Another problem was to prevc~t 'slipping on the turns. Pumice has long been used, · but silicon c:arb:kle has prov cu effective in recent years. ' , - Th~ fJi)eets on flat armory .flo6rs normally lead up to the big invitation affairs on - banked tr;:i.cks 'where short spikes are permitted. Of these big meet& the .most famous are held ,on Madi .son Square Garden's U~lap siJruce track, Composed of 90 se~tions, of which 1 tw9 ban b1e easily remov~d to permit ~1e'run-through in the 60-yard dash ,and the hurdles, · it cost $9, 000. Every Jew yea ·rs this track is repaired alons 1the pole and from time to time a new track is la,id to repla~e th<:~damage done by thousands 0f spikes. In addition to the 'major meets, schoolboy ' miets are conducted throughout the -afternoon with as many as a thousand athletes participating. ·. 1 , · ' ( I' T.racks in the present Garden 'have been laid on a floor of terra .zo, or polished "}'>; cement, with the turns banked to a maximum of aboitt: 30 iucnes above the floor. Other and d1- similar ll~lap (160' yards per lap) banked tracks are used io_r .the two big meets in Boston, the Chicago Relays and the Milwaukee Journal meet. The track at the Boston Garden was ,., I lengthened from 12 to 11 laps a few years before World War II. /1t times the Hubhas J (' I t f ,1 ,/ f ' \ I ' f' I • ' I \ 1\ i- "\!', f , \ ' I '' ~~~ .-c~lr,a: im=-e~d~,t~o-.~ha fc:,cv~.~ :--a- f:a-:s~t~er--;:t-r-ac~Jc:--:-t:-ha~n~ M-=a::. d::1:-. s-:o--n-:S;::-q=-:u...a :- r'"'".~- G::---a-rd::-,-en-:- ~-== c::-e-r'"'.'t-a";"'inl-:_-:-y-: t:-;-h-e'"'!"f::-o-r-:m-=-er-- 7µ-a-=-s-~..---,-..-- ~ usua1lyl-0oked less chewed up, since the New York track is used far more each year, There have been, however, still faster indoor banked tracks at the Bronx , Coliseum (six laps) and Dartmouth's famous 6.2/3 laps oval. Both of these are now dis mantled but ~ome of the sensational times made on them still survive to plague present- day record attempts.