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·also KV1own as ~(f •<>,'.~ -~R~tlf'N~ts11:rrm · (OFF\Cl~l PU8l\C~i\ON Or 1'RK:KNUTS Of ,\-IE~~\.O, UMl"lc.}· Vol. 8, No. 4 Sept. 27, 1961. Semi-Monthly $6 per vear by f'rst class mail Edited by Hal Bateman Page 25· Boston, Thomas Score Victories 1932 Olympic Games COLOGNE, GERMANY, Sept. 9 -- Ralph Boston and . By Wally Donovan . John Thomas opened their latest invasion of Europe by scoring On the sun -drenched shores of the Pacific Ocean, before a victory apiece here today. record breaking crowds, the most successful and carefully planned Boston added to his list of 26-foot plus jumps with a leap Games in modern Olympic history were staged at Los Angeles, of 26 '2" and Thomas was an easy winner in the high jump at Calif., from July 30 to August 14, 1932. 6' l{fos". Another top performance came from Manfred Kinder, A crowd of 105; 000, filled the colossal Olympic Stadium, ·who won the 400 in 46.2. l00m,Hebauf 10.5; Delecour (France) now called the Coliseum, to capacity on the first day and heard 10.5. 200,Germar 21.0. 400,Kovac (Yugo) 46.8 (2nd); Bruder Vice President Charles Curtis proclaim open the Olympic Games (Switz)47.0 (3rd). 800, Missalla 1:48.9; Lurot (France) 1:49.6; , of Los Angeles. Klinkenberg 1:49.9; Faude 1:50.2; Bohme 1:50.2; Eyerkaufer More than 1500 athl e tes representing 40 nations traveled 1:50.5. Brace: Hoffmann 1;50.0. 1500, Schmidt 3:47.0; Wat many miles over oce ans to engage in the world's greatest sporting schke 3:47 .O; Schwarte 3:47 .9. 3000, Flosbach 8:10.2. 400H, pa geant . For the first time in Olympic history , speci al housing Janz 50.4. 400R, ASV Cologne 40.7; Bayer Leverkusen 40.8. wa s provided in an Olympic Village, so that all comp etitors N.,__Molzberger24'6½" (2nd). PV Lehnertz 14'9".l!:,_Herings could live in the same compound. The athletes trained and com 260!9½". peted in a climate perfectly suited to building up condition. In fact, the weather throughout the Games was the finest in' Olym - pie history. More Wins For Boston., Thomas Although the Games -Were held in the midst of a world HAMBURG, GERMANY, Sept. 10 -- Ralph Boston won wide depression, more than two-million spectators attl:!nded two events and John Thomas one here today as they continued the various events for an Olympic attendance record. It was their tour of Europe. the most spectacular and successful sporting event ever staged Boston as usual had little trouble in the broad jump in the United States from the standpoint of attendance, organi and won at 26 '1¾'' and also took the high hurdles · in 14.1. Thomas zation, thrills and records. jumped 6'l{fos" for the second straight day .but could place only · The track and field events were staged from July 31 to fourth in the high hurdles, where he ran 15. _0. 100m, Delecour Aug. 7. The new, fast 400-meter track yielded many great per- (France) 10.5. 200, Germar 21.5. 400, Kinder 46.5; Bruder , formances. New Olympic records were set in every men's track (Switz) 46. 7. 1500, Eyerkaufer 3: 47 ._2; Ostach 3:47. 9. HT, event ·and in five out o.f the eight field events. Seven of the 20 Fahsl 205'9". IL._Salomon 253'10½'' ,. PV Lehnertz 14'5½". Olympic records were world records. In addition, three world records were equalled. World records a,lso were set in the six women's events making it a total of 13 for all of the track and Pettersson Upsets Thomas - field events. · · - GOTHENBURG, SW];':DEN, Sept. i4 --Stig Pettersson Jim Bausch became the greatest all-around athlete by and John Thomas both cleared 6 'l{fos" here tOdaY,but the $wedish winning the decathlon with a world record 8,462,235 points ll.llder athlete picked up the victory on fewer misses. Pettersson be the 1912 scoring tables (Ed. Note: 6, 588 points under the 1952 came only the fourth man to _beat Thomas in the last three years. scoring tables.) Bill Carr again defeated his great rival, Be°n Valeriy Brumel, Robert Shavlakadze and Bob Avant also ·have Eastman, creating an astounding world record of 46. 2. for 400 beaten Thomas during that span. meters. '· · Ralph Boston continued to. win · with .a leap of 25 '•9¾"and GrEtat Britain's Thom as Hampson crashed thr9ugh another Great Britain's Gordon Pirie won t,he 3,000 meters from Gaston of trade's "barriers, ·" dipping under 1:50 with an astonishing Roelants of Belgium, 8: 07. 0 to 8: 12 .2. 1:49. 8 for 800 meters. In an exeiting ··pole vault duel, Bill Mille'r' broke the accepted world record, soaring 14 'li''. Chuhei Nam bu of Japan, already the world recor.d holder iff the broad ·jump, Boston Wins "Twice, Thomas Once became the first and only man in history to hold world records TAMPlc:KE,. FINLAND, Sept. 15 - -Two victories by in both horizontal jumps by leaping 51'7 " in 'the hop-step~jump. Ralph Boston and one by John Thomas highlighted an inter Two swift U.S. relay teams broke the world records for 'the '100 national meet here today. and 1600-meter relays, docking 40.0 and 3:08.2, respectively. Boston won the broad jump ac 24' 10" and the high_hurdles _ Eddie Tolan, bespectacled, piston-legged Detroit Negro, in 14.4 while Thomas again high jumped 6'l(fos". RistoAnkio became the oruy double winner in men .'s track, : tying the world won the pole vault at a low 14 '1¼" and Pauli Nevala was the jav mark _of 10. 3 in the 100 meters and running one of the fastest . elin winner at 238 '2½". (21. 2) 200 meters ever run on a curve . Although he finished second, Glenn Hardin, only-a college freshman, tied the world record for the 400 meter hurdles as the winner knocked over the 185' 111-2" for 20 Year Old last hurdle and was deprived qf the record. Hardin was timed OBERHAUSEN., GERMANY, , Sept. 14 -- Jens Reimers, in 51. 9 although the time was rounded off to 52 .0. George Saling West Germany's youn 11discus find, set a .-national record today tied the world record of 14.4 in the semi-finals of the 110-meter· with a throw of 185 '11 2 ". Reimers, who turned 20 less than a high hurdles. month ago, threw only 159'9" last year. ·He .stands 6'6¾'' and Midred ''Babe" Diarickson was a double winner in the weighs 242 pounds. women's events, breaking the world records in the javelin · (continued on page 28, column one) Page 26 24 'l0 f'; Asiala (F) 24 'lOf' . [Yf, Lindroos (F) .181 '10"; Repo (F) 176'7". IT,_ Kuisma (F) 256'°; Nevala (F)-253'5"; Svanstrom Thomas lrou.ncei Pettersson (S) 249'9". 400R 1 Swecl,en 40.9. Sept. 10:· 1500, Salonen 3:46.1. KARLSTAD, SWEDEN, Sept. 14 .-'- John Thomas got 400H Rintamaki 51.1 • .fY,Nikula .Cf) 14'7¼" (2nd); Landstrom revenge on Stig Pettersson today by leaping 7'1" to .easily defeat (if)TI's¾"(3rd). HS), Rahkamo (f) 52 '3" ; Tamminen (F) 52'2" '. the fwedish ace. Pettersson recently beat Thomas but. he · was no !:!!,Asplund (S) 2.08 10". 1600R, Finland 3:09.8 (NR); Sweden mai,h for the Boston ·University athlete ·today and cl_eai'.ed 6'10i _". 3:09.9 (NR). G · t Britain's Gordon Pirie won the 3, 000 meters m 8: 17. 7. and in e 200 it was thought that Ove Jonsson had set a Swedish · record ofj Z0. 9. However, later investigation showed that he ran. _3. H, Bakarinov Beats Rudenkov- m t tk rs less than the required dist ance ·. · , :- · · _ , MOSCOW, .KUSSIA, Sept. 11 - Yuriy Bakarinov, rated a comer in European hammer circles, continued to be a thorn in the Bitston Loses in Broad Jump ·: t/ ' the side of Vasily Rudenkov by beating the Olympic champion TUKKU, FINLAND -- Ralph Boston scored an impreiisive here today. Bakarinov, who stands only 5'6½", threw 219'4", only ~f a half inch off his personal best, while Rudenkov managed 218 '6½". low ·•hurdles victory but lost his undefeat ed record in the broad The 23-.year-old Bakarinov now has beaten Rudenkov twice this Jurri.P when he could only · leap 23 '6¼" : r.lis broad jump performance season. was not even good enough to get him in the first six. Veteran Jorm a Va lkama , who will be 33 next week, won the broad jump a t 24'10 f'. Boston ran 23.4 in the 200 lows to ea sily defeat Jus si Yugoslavia Wins Balkan Games Rintam a ki, a world class interm ediate hurdl e r who ran 23.8. BELGRADE, YUGOSLAV IA, Sept. ,15-17 -- Djani Kovac QI, Lindroos 178 'l½" . .II,_ Neval a 254 ' 7" . won the 400 and the 400 hurdl es to lead Yugoslavia to vi ctory in Balkan Games. Kovac ran 47 .4 and 51.8 as the Yugosl avian team piled up 164 points in th e m en's division. Romania finished European Record for France second with 129, Bulgaria wa s third at 94, Greece scor ed 7~ a.nd CHA TILLON ,; FRANCE, Sept. 17 -- France set a Turkey 30. ~ Tsakanikas (Gr ) 56'6¾''. 1500, Vamos '(Rom) Europ ean r ecord in the 800-meter relay today by clocking 3:46.5; lngolic (Yugo) 3:47 .2; Ba rabas (Rom) 3~47 .4.