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FIFTH ANNUAL SPRINGBANK INTERNATIONAT SUNDAY, OCTOBER lst" 1972; LONDON, ONTARIO.

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Frank Shorter of the wins the gold medal in the at the 1972 , l\4unich, West . Second is Karel Lismont (foreground)of and third the defending champion, of Ethiopia. Today. in his first road race since his lvlunich victory, competes in the Springbank'12', One of his opponents is Karel Lismont. -'! {

HIGHSCHOOL'3' 1971: lntheclosest{inishtoaraceinthehistoryoftheSpringbanklnternational,itwas Chuck Woods, Fergus High School, outsprinting Danny Katz, Toronto OlVmpic Club. John Wierda, South Water' loo Harriers, the leader onlv a few yards earlier, ,inished third. Their respective times: 14129.2,14129.7, 14130.4.

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sEN toRS', ',6' - 1971: Hal Higdon (above) of the lndiana Striders speeds across the finish line in 30:29.5, a new record by 49.5 seconds. Joe Bessel lextreme teft) New York AC, was second and the previous record holder, Art Taylor (left), Kithener-Waterloo, third.

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Running through the pines after only y. miles in the race, the six runners who were to monopolize the first six positions had already grouped in front and had started to detach themselves from the field (left to right): Steve Stageberg, Ken Hamilton, Bob Legge, Grant McLaren, Sid Sink (partially hidden) and Dan Shaughnessy.

But it was the Georgetown star alone in Iirst making Together in second at the same point U.W.O. grad the turn into the shor! second lap. student Grant McLaren (leltl and Sid Sink of Bowl- ing Green University. Sink finished second, McLaren third.

12 Unpressed, Stageb€rg strides gracelully towards the Iinish. His time ar the finish, 20:09.7, gave him an 18.3 second margin of victory,

Victory Presentalion - Sink and McLaren flanking him, Slageberg accepts the Labatt's Trophy from S. lM. McLeod, Community Relations IVlanager, Labatt Ontario Breweries.

13 It is doubtful whether anyone anywhere has ever run the marathon as well and as confidently as did in 1970. He seemed fully capable and prepared to take on anyone at anv pace and win. His victories at the and the Commonu/ealth Games Marathon that year (in 2:'10:30and 2109:28) were masterful performan- ces. The latter is still the second Iastest time ever run lor the distance. And who among us will forget Dr. Hill's superb victory in the Springbank ''12' that year. Since 1970 the textile research chemist rrom lvlanchester has experienced two ,rustrating setbacks in international games competition. The pattern in both cases has been strangely similar. ln 1971 he won the British marathon championship in 2:12:39, runn;ng wellwithin himself. In the European Games, at Helsinki, Finland, however. he could only manage third behind ne!rcomer Karel Lismont of Belgium. Thls year Hill again looked highly impressjve qualifying ror the British team, recording a less-than'all-out 2:12:5'1. Going into the Games most track experts rated Hill the marathon favorite. But victory escaped him again. He finished sixth, in a time almost 6even minutes oIf his best perlormance. The Helsinki, Munich setbacks notwithstanding, Ron Hill has to be regarded as one of the all-time greats of road running and a man to be reckoned wilh in any race he contests. Afterall, anyone who can run 2: 1 2:39 and2.12i51 running within himself has got to be a pretty frightening opponenr.

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Like Frank Shorter, was born in Munich. Unlike Shorter, Drayton never got to go back there in 1972. ln a decision that stunned many Canadian track fans, the Canadian Association lelt Drayton ofI this year's Canadian Olympic team. lr seems like only yesterday, but was actually in 1969, that Drayton sent shock waves through the distance'running world with a 2:12:OO marathon in Detroit, a North American record, and then an even laster 2:1 1:12,8 in winning the Fukuoka lvlarathon in Japan. Fukuoka is regarded as'the unofficial world marathon championship and for his viciory there Drayton was voted the world's outstanding marathon runner Ior the year. ln 1970 Drayton ran up against Ron Hill at the Boston Marathon and the Commonlvealth Games and folded both times. Bur he still ran a world 1O_mile record, however, and raced Hill stride-for-stride until the {inal quarter mile in the great 1970 Springbank ''12'. With such a record behind him, what hapoened to Drayton this year reads like a cruel practical joke. First, the CTFA set an inordinarily still Olympic standard for Canadian marathoners: 2:17, a time only Drayton ai his best, among Canadians, has beaten comfortably. lln' cidentally, the CTFA was one ot few maior national track associa_ tions in the world to set an Olympic marathon standard.) Secondly, Drayton was plagued by leg iniuries throughout the winter, making training di{ficult and attempts at races like Boston pointless Lastly, in the tragic Jinal act, the course over which the Canadian marathon triai was run turned out to be '1,00O yards too long. The problem was neither Drayton nor anyone else knew this beforehand Under_ standably, during the race, when he realized his final time was going to be exiremely ilow. he became extremely discouraged and lost his grasp on the pace. He still won, rn 2:23:13 {worth about 2:19 had ihe i:ourse been correct rn length). But the arbitrary standard was 2:17 and rhe CTFA was unbending. The result was that Canada's only world record holder in track was le{t off the Olympic team and had to content himsell !!ith sitting in front oI a television set watch' ing while the Olympic gold medal in the marathon was won in 6 time he has beaten twice in his career. IIROtlE DRAYTO]I Drayton is now reported 1o be in the besl condition he's been in since 1970, although he still is experiencing some leg problems. lt isn't known what, iI anything he's pointing towards now in his ruo_ CANADA ning. One thing is certain. he's not pointing towards the 1976 Olympics in . "What's the use," he says with quiet resignation. "They'd prob6bly _---- me the same way they did this year." 14 GRAIII lrlclAREil, CAI{ADA

A native oI Drumbo, Ontario, now a doctoralcandidate in zoology at the University of Western Ontario in London.23-year'old Grant McL;ren has emerged this year as one o, North America,s finest distance runners. He,s received far too lir'tle credit for it, particutarly in his own backyard of Southwestern Ontario. lvlcLaren's accomplishmenrs thjs year include victories in several major in- door meers (including rhe Philadelphia Ctassic and the New york Otympic invitational), a smashing triumph in the three mite (his 13:10,8 breaking 's previous Canadian standard of 13:17) and a victory at three miles in the lMartin Luther King Games in phitadelphja. The last weekend of July, McLaren ran a 3:59 mile behind worrd recoid- holder at the Police Games in Toronto. A coupte cf weeks later he scored a two-mile victory over U.S. Olympians and Ryun in , giving him victories {or the year over every U.S. rhree miler-two miler o{ note with rhe exception of Steve Prelontaine. At the Olylnpic Games IVlcLaren drew the toughest and fastest heat o{ atl and failed to qualify. Hisrace included Prelontaine, Betgian star Emiet Puttemans and former 5,000 silver medalist Harold Norpoth, wirh only

The holder of three Canadian records ( indoors, 3OOO metre sreeplechase and three mites), 6ranl [4cLaren has always performed well at the Springbank lnternational. Alrhough he's never won, he,s finished 2nd. 2nd and 3rd in the Springbank '4%'the past three years. This mav be his year. He didn't compete in the f irst Springbank competition.

Having run his 3:59 mile in July, McLaren today becomes the first four-minute miler ever to compete in the Springbank lnternational.

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1972 OLYMPIC MARATHON CHAMPION 1971 - Winner of 6-mile in u.S. Pan-American Games trials, second (to Kenny lvloor€) in marathon trial; winner of gold medals Ior the 10,000 metres (Above) Frank Shorter in September 1970 wirh rhe and marathon in Pan-Am Games; winner U.S. AAU Labatt Trophy aJter winning the Springbank '4%', cross-country title; winner world-f amous Fukuoka his first road race. {Right) Frank Shorter in Septem- firarathon, Japan (in 2:12:50.4, his best time.) ber'1971 running in the Springbank'12'. 1972 - Winner of 10,OO0 metrcs and marathon in in U.S. Olympic trials; sth-place Iinisher in Olym- pic 10,000 metres and gold medal winner, Olympic When thin, tanned Frank Shorter oI the Florida Track Marathon. Club breasted the finishing tape at lvlunich's Olympic (his Stadium on &rnday, September 10 to win the 26-mile, Married wile Louise often runs with hjm), a 385-yard marathon run he became the first North law $udent at the University o{ Florida, Frank American in 64 years to win this most classic of Olym- Shorter is 5''10". 135 lbs. He was. interestingly pic events. enough, born in Munich. Germany where his falher, then a U.S.6rmy doctor, was stationed. The lvlunich victory crowned a brilliant, if relatively briet career in road rscing for the 24-year-old Shorter. It was only two years ago almost to this day that he ran his first race on roads, winning the Springbank Frank Shorter's Record as a Road Racer: '4%' in a record time that still stands. Munich was only Shorter's eighrh road race ol any kind and only .Springbank'4%', 1970 - 1st his rourth marathon. aSao Paulo (Brazil) New Year's lvlidnight Run, The story of Shorter's career the past three years '1970-1971 - 1sr since he graduated from and moved oU-S. AAU Marathon, 197'l 2nd (to Kenny to Gainesville, Florida to run with the powerful - Moore) Florida Track CIub has been consistently hard rrain" ing (he rold Grant N4cLaren in Munich he hadn't .Pan-American Games Marathon. 1971 - 1st been below 10O miles in training in a single week for .Springbank '12', 1972 4rh three yearsl), - an extremely heavy diet of racing, aFukuoka Marathon, Japan, 1971 1st mostly track races, often without much resl Irom - .U,S, Olympic Marathon Trial, 1972 1st training. and last but not least, a great deal of suc, - cess, particularly in competitions where it mattered. aOlympic Marathon. Munich - 1st The Shorter r€,cord over those three years is studded ln the two races he has lost, he was attempt- with gem upon gem of running achievement: ing his first marathon in one ('71 AAU Mar- 1970 Winner - of borh the 3 and 6-mile races at athon) and had been ill early the week oI AAU Track Championships, voted ,,Arhlete of the the race jn the other ('71 Meet"; runaway winner 10,000 metres in U.S. - Springbank '12'). U-S.S.R. meet; winner U.S. AAU cross-country., winner Sao Paulo (Brazil) Midnighr Rr 22 l$Rfl. Uslll0lfi, BEt0tutl

At the European Games last year in Helsinki, Finland a new figure burst onto the world marathon scene in the person of Karet Li;mont of Belgrum, Only 22 then and running his third marathon, the com. pactly.burh 5'7", 141 lb. runner won the marathon gold medal in 2r13:09 over a lield that included such internationaistars as Trevor Wrighl and Ron Hill o.f Great Britain. On September 10 ot rhis year at the Olympic cames in Munich, oermany, Lismont re-emphasized his ability, winning the sitver me- dal in the marathon behind Frank Shorter oI the United States (see cover photograph). ln two consecutive major marathon tests, therelore, Lismont has finished the top European. The Belgian star is no slowpoke over the shorter distances, either, having run 2g:3i.2 for the 1O,O0O metres.

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Note: One lap oJ the Springbank circuit is 177 yards short of three miles, Thus, the actual distances of the three, six and I 2"mile races are 177, 354 and 708 yards short respectively. The 4%,mile, which consists of a full lap plus a half lap, is 318 yards short.

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The 1970Springbank'12 had supposedly seen rhe Lrlt mate rn fast, competitive road racjnq when wor d racord holders Ron Hil or Great Britarn andJerome Drayton of Canada engaged in a stirring shoulder-to-shoutder due which wasn't rlecided until rhu f nal qua(ermllewh€f Hill broke ctear on a fin shing k ck. Thewinninqtime was 55 m nutcs:14.6 seconds, a mosr three minutes under the old record. tt was a race which woutd be a rough, il not impossib €, act to fo low. EnlerVl keFreEryofGrealBrirainandKennyMooreofOraoonint9Tl. Frearv_ a ctubmate of Htl twithihe Bolton United Harriers nEolton,Engand,hadasteringrecordasaroadraceratdistancestikelOmtes. And one of his goa s at Sprinqbank was "to have a go at Rorr's record". Not endowed with a part cularly fast finish, Frearyhaddecidedonastrategythatwassimplebutbrutal: go as fast as you car as onqasyo!can.

Kenny Moore, a bril iant marathoner (wirh a best time of 2:1 1 :35.8, one of the fastest evar) and the finishing kickofarnl er (hc's run 4:03.7 for a mile and 56.5 for the last 440 of a six-m e race), kne!! he urou d have a good chance to wln if he coulcl hang on ro the pace, whaiever it might be. There were other f ne aihletes in the race but from the outset the road belonged to Freary and Moore. And rhe race they w€nt cn to run \r'/as one that, in quality, proved the very twln of the previous year's epic, r ght down to the finai v! in n rnq time.

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Onlyl%milesintotheraceandthemurderouspacesettlngtacticsofFreary(7) are taking the r roll. Only Moore l8) and F orida Track C ub's Earry Brown (5) arewirhhim. JeromeDraytonll),tatertodropout,tsfiveyards back and losing ground.

26 :::,yo _::'.:'atmiles Freary had rid himself of everyone except lvloore. The pace $/as hard to believe: two seconds two miles than the leaders in the '4%'at the same point.

Moore versus Freary stride for stride,

] -- Ascending Animal Hill alter the extraordinary l3:29firstlap(ll seconds faster than Hill and Draytonthepre- vious year) Freary seems impassive, Moore under duress,

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. : for.Barry -t Brown {right), the powerful_three-man Florida Track : sandirv Ctub team never cha,enged for the lead. - won the team titre in ihe 'r z'. Let t to .igt t, Jack e""tul"i,Err-k ih"rrer and Brown ru n ning l::-e' briefly;n the second tao. Bachcter - wen_t on tojirrish rhird, Sho,i"r, *ho1rur.ro p"|, due to an i ness .: rhe week, finished tourth and Brown fifth_

29 & Through laps of 13j29, 14:00 and 14:12 the battle between Moor€ and Freary continued. Their time at three laps was one second slower than Hill and Drayton at the same pojnt. I r t t I i t r f;

- I : oecisive.moment in the race. starting up Animar HiI ear in v rt'e finar rap {above), rvroore wrests rhe 4',:-tage. Near the crest of the hitt yards 250 tater the Oregon runne, is awa_y ite-fi) and Freary is beaien,

3I "Throughout the last lap, as I struggled to widen the gap, spectators shouted about lgetting the record,. For some unaccountable reason a record struck me as important and I pounded along as fast aa l could.,,

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'.: 55:33.8, ',.ish: a new record by eight. Freary crosses the lin€ in 55:54.5 t '_s ol a secon.ll

The race over, a return to a less serious demeanour.

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