Vol. 2 1 No. 23, July 18, 1956 P.O. Box 296, Los Altos,Cal By Bert & Cordner Ne lson., Tr a cl{ & Fi e ld Nows $6 per year (24 issues)

NEWS u.s. Bud Held 249-1 in San DiegoITl-comers meet; Backus 43-11 in 56# ~Baltimore, July 8; Fendler, 6-7 3/4 fourth try, & Maijala, 214-4 at Pasadena All-Comers July 14. Decathl on, , Ji.AU & Final Olympic Trials, Crawfordsville, July 13 & 14: 1, RaI'erJohnson, 7754 {hurt leg first day);2, , 7555, personal best and fourth on all-time list; 3, 7054; 4-, Bob 10-wson 688.5; 5, Sam J~druns., 68 84; 6, Charl es Pratt, 6795; 7, J ames Podoley, 6513; 8, Aubrey. Lewis, 6425; 9, Ken Kelly, 6225; 10, perry Moore, 6197; 11, Jim Klein, 61 96; 12, Bill Black, 5661. · Americas Pu erto Rican marks include; 4707, Rodriguez; 1:52.8., Rivera; 14.4, Lebron; de Jes us 52 . 1 & 52 a2 ( beat i.pari cio, Colombia, 52 .4); Cruz 13-5½; Oliv er 23 0-7 ½, 232 - 3: 233-0 ¼ {bette rs Central & South American r e cord), 231- 92 ,; Li-L.1t & 3:13 ,>8 i n r e lays. Cuba: F'ortun 10.4; Penaluer 21.3; Torr e s 1 :53.4; I gl es i as 14~4 ; Hernand e z 47-11 HSJ; 41.S. (Oliver also 233-8). i.r gontina ~ Su a:r.e z 29 :4 9 ,9, Lemos 29:50.4 at Buenos 1;.ires, July 7, n ow S$Ao r•e cord. Japan 1r eruji Kogak e , 5.2-9 1/ 8, n at ional r•ecord.

Europe: Two world r e cords (6 mil e and 10 1 000), and three European marks (shot, ho p -step-jum p , an d d e ca t h lon~ Se o below. Decathlon Vasiliy Kuzn etsov s e ared 7688 at Moscow July 4 for a new national and Europe an rec or•d ., n.nd bea ben onl y by J ohnson and Mathias. Official Europe an r oc.ord i s 7292 but Kuzrietsov d id 7647 last year. Sprints St e inb ach 10~5 .from Fut t erc r 10 ,,_5 & Gor mar 10 .. 6. Futterer pull ed up la.me in 200, wiJ.l be out at l ea st tw o :mont h s. Babiyuk & Bart ony ev, USSR, l0 -~4 o 10.5 by Ger rnnr ,!' Ste i nba ch, Marin, USSR, Ignatyev 21.1 & 47.0. Pl as kev ev 2 l o3n; Si khar yo v 21~3; Hcllst an, Fin­ land, 46,7; Middle Distances 800 picking up; Moons l:L j.7.2 from Dohrow 1:48.4 & Lawr enz 1:49.2; Ni e l se n 1:48 f r om Her rmann 1:48.5; Boysen 1:48,3 from Reinnn.gel 1:4902; Ivakin, USSR.,. l: !-1-9c9 ; Szontgali l:_50.4 from Iharos 1:52. 1500--Jungwirth 3:1+3, 6 fr om Mu.gosa 3:44.0, Yugoslav record; & Murat, Yugoslavi a , 3:46. 8 ; Ni olson J d-1-4!)2 from Rozs avolgyi 3:44.6 & Tabori 3 :46.4; Ni e l so n 3 :1.+4~2 l'r om Ri cht ze nh a in, GePmany, 3 :41+,4; Valakin, 3:1-1-.5.4, USSR r ecord; Herr mann 3:46; Rozsnyoi 3:46.4 from czeglodi 3:46.6, wi th th.r oe oth er Hungari ans und er 3:~ -9 and th o Big 3 abs ent . Mi l e --R ozs a.volgyi 4: 01 ,,4 f r om Wa 01~n, Swed en, 4: 03o2, & Tabori 4: 03 06 , I haro s 4:0 6 .6; Chrom i k 4: 05~ 6; Boyd 4:06~4 from Johnson 4:07; Long Dis t n.nc o s Sandor Ihar os st ep ped up t o th e 10,000., where ho quite li ke ly wi ll r un at Melb our ne , an d pr omptl y low or ed Zatop ekls world mark to 2 8 :42,,8 at Budo.pea t J ·u.l y 1.5c On the way h e broke six mile mark wi th 27: 43 08• Also: Hicht zo nha in 5:12.,2, German r e cord; Herrmann 7 :59, German r ecord & 5t h on A-T list ; Ih aros 8: 00.14-. 3-mile--Foord, GB, 13:35e2• 5000--Ih aros 13 :50 fro m Chromik 13:51; Ibbotson 13:57.2 from Mugosa 13 :58. 8, Yugoslav record (Mugosa ra n 3 :l+L~24 hours earlier) 10,000--Kuts 29 :01,4 (ll-1-:27 & 14:3 8 .1-1-); Pirie 21:17 ~2; Che1,nyavskiy 29:31.2 from Anufriyov 29 :34.6; Ahl born 29 :L~7 -.L~; To go rsen 29:55.4, Danish r e cord, from Mitzschke, Ger many , 29 :5 8 ~8. SC-Jank e , G-ermany., 8:54-4. Hurdles Kinsella, Irel and, 14o4; Parker, Engln.nd, 14.Jmw from Kin­ sella; Roudnitska, llt.4, equals Fr ench r e cord; Kuzn ot s ov l~ .• 5; Retezar 14.6, Hungari an r ecord; Savel, Romani a , 52.0 twice; Ilin, USSR, 52.4 from Kost., 52.7, Swiss record. Jumps Kashkarov 6-9 ¼8., USSR record; Salminen, 6-9 1/8, Finnish record; Nilsson 6-9 3 4 & fiv e tim e s at 6-8 3/4, his b es t start ever ;

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Degtyarev & Sikin, USSR, 6-8 3/8. PV--Denisenko 14-5¼; Bulatov 14-5¼ three times; Janiszewski & Wany, Poland, 14-5¼; Landstrom 14-5¼; Sillon, 14-2, French record; BJ--Porrassalmi 25-o, Finnish record; HSJ--Leonid Shcherbnkov, 54-0 at Moscow July 4, new Russitl.Il & European record, 2nd best of all-time, and betters accepted world mark; Chen 2nd 52-0 3/4, Tsigankov 51-9 5/8; Rahkruno, 51-9 5/8, Finnish record; Malcherczyk 50-9 7/8, Polish record. Throws--Jiri Skobla, Czechoslovakia, raised his European shot record to 57-7 3/4 at BerJ.in July 1. 11.lso 57-5; Ovsepyan, 56-8 3/8, Russian r ecord; Fyodorov, Russia, 55-1; Palmer 55-6, British record. DT-­ Conolini 182-7 3/4; Matv oyev 173-9; Jonsson, Iceland, 171-4 3/4. HT--nothing new. JT--Si dlo 256-2 J/8; Danielson, 259-4 5/8, 261-8 1/8 & 263 -5, Norwei gian r eco rd; Mncquet,France, 257-5 3/4 from Nikkinen 245-6; Will, 255-8½, Ger man rec ord. Briti sh AAA Championships, London, July 13 & 14, rain: Young 9.9; 880 hea ts, best ti me 1~)1~ 7 by Far rell; Mile, Wood 4:06.8 after 3:12 pace; 3M-Ibbotson 13:32 ~6 from Chataway, same time, last lap .59.4; 6M-Norris 28:13..,6, Sando 28,l i~.-)2 ( }_~th & 5th on all-time list), Foard 28:J0,6, Driver 28:52, Fr ed No11 ris 28 :52 ~8, Knight 28:55.8; (Ririe injured, did not run)., $.P~1Palmor 54 ·-2; DT-Allday 187-6, Anthony 186-lQ 440H•Savel 52.2; HJ-Soeter 6-l+• wnm SPRINTS TN Fionnbar Cn.llanan of iSo!fn:,-wfio-calls himself' one of the ''nuttiest of the nuts'', does a poriodical predictions piece for the Irish times with 3 OlyBp:i.c pl acer s ,, 9 ,ex-mi l e ace Joe Mangan, now helping coach the S-.C" Str iders, wo:: .1 r 0mor;1bers that when he and Cunningham came pa.st t t.0 3/4 mark ::l.n th eir celebrated 4:J.~8 race timer Tom Lennon called out ·the time: ~3;54, J e sus Christ Almighty." ••• the brick of Bakersfield's fast track came from th o rubble of the cityis 1952 ea.rthquake.~cPa.yton Jordan, who sp ent a summer in Greece for the state department, wrote a book on track procedures which was trans­ lated into Greek with 3000 co pie s distributedo Now he's doing a book for Prentice-Hall •• :,,Greg Bell jumped 2.5-5½ in a leap for photographerf. before tho AAU•• ,,in 1i.1~upr act ic e st arts Dillard consistently beat Shankle and Calhoun, someti mes by as much as four fo ct.., •• is from Elkhart, Kansas, home of Gl Gnn Cunningham.~.when Glenn returne from the 36 OG Baker made up his mind to make the Olympics ••• Delany says he had no idea he had brok en four minut es at Compton--''I run only to win and time does not worr y me"~ o l)Pirio claims ho wasn 1 t tired in his 13:36.8 and says he might have run much fa ster if he had known the pace. "I thought it was about 14 minuteso It was Kutst excellent perf'6rmance which pushed me to the r ec ordo '' ••• Czechoslovakia Is Moc walked . 50,000m in l+:20:07 for a world record,.., .Iha.res hopes Pirie and Kuts can meet him in a ,5000 at Budapest i~ugo 19., o .Yolanda Balax of Romania braked the women1 s HJ recor d with 5-8 3/4 July 14.2. of Compton bettered 11.merican women! s records with 142-10 and 45r.:.o½~., says he discover ed three flaws in form from L.S. Timos' photos of th o final trials,. ,;J3us Shi .mek, Is college coach, says John can s et a new worldi s r 0cord. "He has more desire . than most athl etes I know. The Olympics couldn't come at a better time. He has reached his peak.,"HeG oorge Eastment says his Ken Bantun : hasn't reached his shot put peak yet and could be ju st as great in th( ' discus if he wants too. Spe ed and work with the woights have helped greatly, Bantum, only n junior, did 52 with the 12# in HS, 4897 as a frosh and 54-10 last yearc~,Larry Snyder says is the best soph he has co ached since Owens. "Ho has the strength and speed and desire to bo great. He's r elax ed by a fine competitor•'' Davis won the Ohio state meet single-hand edly in 1954 •••

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BULLETIN BOARD NEXT Newsletter July 31. August 1'racl:. & F'ieJ.d News mailed August 9. RENEWALS are due. Only one more issue of Vol. 2.. (t6 per year. SPECIALS to track nuts only: A very J.irn.ited supply of Olympic Trials programs available for ~pL,00. 1rtfs mB.;y-secure the "British Commonwealth & Empire Handbookn ( listed under' ''Announcements'' in July T&FN) from T&FN f'or ~!;.50. Off er expires August lo SO THEY SAY GORDON RINGER., Los AngeLrn ""[J1..111El26):"Watch our for Sidloo He bettered 269 in practice on his fi:1:st try with a Held javelin." TN HAL HIGDON, u.s,, army via Chicago: ''The U5 of Cnicago 'rrack Club hopos to win the AAU cross country meet this year after two years of taking second behind the NYf,.Cn 'v!o i 11 have Bob lCelly, Walt Deike, Lawton Lamb and mysolf'o Let I s hope we can dig up a fifth man.nu TN A. P. BANGS, Rerrnda, CaL: 11rrom Lyle, tho 1320 sensation, has just turned 15, is a tanned, husky kid of the same type of build as Bob McMillen. He ran 50s and 100s :l.n the ?th and 8th grades and came out for track after an initial fres~nan cross countrv season. He started with a 3:40+ time and then ran 2:0Lf. 8f3os. H~:Jk.new he would have to push .a last lap in order· to win, and had the stuff to do it after a 2: 09 half.'' TN ROBERTO QUERCETi.NI, F'J.oronc o: "Sidlo was very impressive with his world record. He has tre mendous strength and what is more I think he is a great fightor (K i' '1vonosov being p •21°haps the only other example of this tAmericant type among Europcsm thr'ow ors--Consolini is consis­ \_ tency personified but it is d:I.ffi8u.1t to say whethor ho becomes better or worse in hot company: he just k c ops going ari u,sual, He i::; like a clock, but unlike clocks he never changes witl1 shifting meridians.) If I were to prodict the javelin for Melbourne now, 17d have Sidlo 1st, Young 2nd, Danielsen Jrd, Nik.kincn li_th, (:racquet 5th~ But them I did not do very good with my predictions for· tho US F'inal. '.I'ryouts l "Inci don tally, just tho other- clay, r Idrottsblade t', Stockholm, published an article which was sent from California by coach Gosso Holmer. He said 'I can 1t undePstand tho pcoplo ho:r.o make so much fuss about ,, He certn.inly is not in a class with Nilsson or Shelton of 1955et All thi s probably means that human ultimates, as f'ar as excellence is concerned, have not been roached by either athletes or Texpcrtslo Holmer also rcportod about : tr gave him some of . tho fi.ner po1nts of the Etu·opean technique and after listenj_ng to me he thrmr over- 197 in practico., In the following moot he threw over 205." 1rhis sounds as :Lf' Connolly had not thrown 209-7 last your and over 206 this s ,J8.s on~ " TN HUGH Gii.HDNER, Iltd :'canapoLi.s: "Your s torJ on Wykoff reminded me of an oldie which was pub:Liuhcd by tho :i_ate Grantland Rico, about the late Paddock., Char

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S'ri,TS SHOT PUT RECORDEVOLUTION 30-11 ½ J. MacElroy Ma~ USL, 1()7'6 52-7½ Frantisok Douda,CSR, 1931 32-5 H.E. Bu ermoye r, US1\, 1876 _52-7 7/8 Z;y-gmunt Holjasz,Pol,,1932 33-0 Francis La r k in, USA, 1877 52-8 Leo Sexton, USA, 1932 3 7-2 Buer:m ey er, 1877 53-0½ Sexton, 1932 37-4 Buorm oyer , 1878 SJ-1 J/4 Douda, 1932 42-4 E.J. Bor , Engl an d, 1880 511.-l cTonn Lyman, US!., 1934 1+3-0 F.L, Lambr •e c h t, USA, 1883 .55-1½ Jack 'I'or'I'ance, USii., 1934 43-9 J.o. Br i en , Eng l and, 1885 55-5 Torrance, 1934 43-11 Goorg e R . Gr ay , u s 1~, 1887 57-1 Torrance, 1934 44-5 Gray, 1888 58- 3/ 8 Char les Fonvilla,USA, 1948 L1_6-2 Gray, J.890 58 -L1-J/ 8 J ames Fuchs, USI., 1949 L~6-3½ . Grq.y, 1891 58-5½ Fu ch s., 1950 46-7 3/Lr., C}rt,y, 1b91 58 ··•8 5/1 6 Fu chs, 1950 47-0 Gray, 1893 58-9 1/ 8 Fu chs, 1950 48-2 D00nis Horgan,Ir~l~~d, 1898 58-10 11/ 16 Fuchs, 1950 'D,ll'Jl,l I:)O''(" TJC'! ;\ 1 '/1 I 1-l-8- 7 lLC~ _t l . . 'I.' t-..) .1,U.L.i.' 1°/V - \. 59- 9 3/ L~ Par 1•y O Br•ion, US!~, 1953 49-6 Weslie W.Coo, USA, 1905 59 ~·2 J/8 O' BI'ien 1953 49-7¼ Rose, 1907 59-9 3/4 0 1 Bricn, 1954 1. 0 t 1:3·J·•-1 en J_qt:;)1 49-10 Roso, 1908 0 0-5'L..:l, J_ , ...!• ..J , ., .....~ --r- 51-0 Rose, 1909 60-.s ·-3/l+ 0 1 Br>ien, 1954 51-9 5/GEmil Hir.scr1.fold, Germany, 28 60-10 O'Brien, 1954 52-0 3/4 John Kuck, USA, 192f\ 61-1 O'Brien, 1956 52-7½ Hirschfeld, 1928 61-l.J. o I B:e:1.(m, 1956

NOTEDvJITH IN'l'EHEST EMIL ZATOPEK, notes Time, has n o t :cun outside tho Iron Curtain sinco·-ho told Italian ne·vrnmo:n last J.p11 il th u.t U.S .. athletes are the best in tho wor•ld a:.r:1.dwill wi.n o.t Holbourno o Then tho Czech ministry of sports announced Zutopok will not compctu again until ho recovers from o. sprained ankloe Only Zatopek~s prcrrnnce in the Olympics will disclose whether his ailment, a ;-:i diagnosed by his Heel monto1,s, is a sprained ankle or a sprained tongu e ., KITEI SON, writes LP1S 11Shinn 1 is still active in the marathon, as a tr·nincr, not as a runner,~ In 1936, when Korea was occupi.ed by · Jo.pan, the Olympic marath on was won in record time by Kitel Son of Japan. 'I'hero was no Korean team and the only way Kor>cDns could eom­ poto was for Japan. But oven so 5.t w·::_s a cause f or national rejoicing and defiance of Japano Newspapers in Korea promptly retranslated the name back into its or:1.gJb.al Kor·cnn--Sohn Ki Jung~ Because of this and other ovidoncos of KoI'ct:m nc :t icnalism Sohn novor was ablu to cor;1pcte again. · 1\.ftor Wor•ld War II when K'.)I' a bccamo free, Sohn p:Lclrnd up a starving young Korean student, took h under his wing, and in 191~7 tho proteg c , Surh Yoon Bok, won the ston marathon in 2:25:39. He came ho ·rno u. national hE:Jro Q But in l 9i+d Surh was only 27th at London, and Koreans voiced resentment and crit:lcism ,, In 1950 tnree yo1mg Koreans, Han Ki Yong, Son Kil Yoon and Choi Yoon Chil, swept tho first three places at Boston., But whon the best Korcrnn, Choi Yoon Chil, was only fourth at Helsinki t h cn•e again was much criticism in Korea, So in 19.53, in culmination of facticmal difforcncos with Korean officials, Sohn walked out, accusing the officials of playing politics. Now he is building his own business, an d planning a marathon training camp, with dormitory, gymnasium, tPack, etc., where ho can develop runners "who will co.pture every mar•athon title of tho futur•e". But tho big trouble, says Sohn, is tho.t Koreans are all out for first place, but if thoy don-' t win their· is angor· and resentment~

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