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TRACKNEWSLETTER SupplementingTRACK & FIELD NEWS Volwne 12, No. 17 May 19, 1966 Page 1 Ryun Nips Grelle in 2 Mile Thriller hom e to a 7:17.4 world clocking with a 1:47 . 8 leg, which equalled the ·1eg posted by Preston O;:ivis of Texas. Villanova's Dave Patrick by Dick Drake ran 1:-±7. 7 for the [astest of anyone . Texas ran 7:18 .6 and Villanov a .Los Ang"1es, Calif., May 13- - 111e 26th version of the Colic 7:18 .8, both barely missing Oklahoma State's 7:18 .4 world standard seum Relays didn't lack for excite ment and good marks. 111e most set in la st year 's West Coast Relays. Since 1954, the two-mile rela · thrilling were the two-mile in which fi ve milers o[ 3:!;6.4 or faster has produced a world re cord in five of 13 meets. In fact, the initial class and a distance runner fought -it out until two had broken the meet in 1941 also produced a world record--7:34.5. American_ record, the two-mile relav in which Southern California USC's time finally surpassed the unofficial best clocking of brok e the world mark after a wicked.battle with Texas all(I Villanova, 7, 18. 0 set by an all- s tar team from the Commonwealth in 1960 fol and the javelin in which Arizona's John Tushaus (pronounced Tuss lowing the Rome Olympics. And it was only Link who put up a c:iree housc) improved more th:in 30-[eet to raise the Amcric..1n mark. best , which speaks high for the potential of this team which lo se s · The two-mile was exciting more becau se of an expecta ti on of only Bess and will pick up high school record holder Richard Joyce , great things to co me fr om such a talented field th,in anything that who is currently bothered by gout. Ilut possibly even more promisin actu;illy occurred during the early stages o[ the race. In fact, th e is the Villanova tea m, which ran with four sophomores. rac e went pretty much according to form witl1 Kipchoge Keino jumping Vying closely [or top honors of the evening, which enjoyed into the lead and holding thilt po sition until alx 111t a furlong to go when warmer than usual 55 to 60 degr ee weather, was Arizona' s sen ior Jim Ryun again go t the jump on Jim Grelle and held off the veteran's javelin thro wer, John Tush a us , who improved his lifetime best of cha ll e nge ,is both were clocked in an American record breaking time 252'3~'" in 1965 31'8~'" to a n American record of 284'0". His best t--'\ of 8:25.2, 1.2 sec onds below !lob Schul's current standard. The this year was 247'10'" thotigh he had lost only to Frank Covelli , at \ .• , · mark ranks equal third on both the perfomiers and performances the Easter Re lays, in 10 meets. He threw 241'10" on his fir st list--hehind !1.-tichel Jazy's world record of 8:22.6 and Ron Clarke's effort with the 70-meter javelin, which he used in order to qualify 8:24.8 and tied with Keino's :iml John Coyle's best. for the fina! s hecau se it tend s to land point-first more readily than The firs t mile · found Ke ill(, leading the field by about a secon d, the BO-m eter Held ja ve lin. I le said that the first throw would have with very little c hange in the or der : Ilob Day, Dyrol Burleson, Grelle, gone further hau he used the 80°rneter javelin . His big to ss occ ur re Tra cy Smith and Ryun. The pace was fast but not fast enough for a on his second attempt- -wit h the SO- meter javelin . '"Everything wen1 world record and probably not for Keino to win either. Most author right, but r wasn't surp rised because l;:ist week I got one off 271-feet ities felt that Keino would ha ve to set a 4:07 to 4: 10 pace to win and in practice,·· he commented later. "111e secret of my success is m set a record hut the mile was passed in 4:13.6. Two s ma ll develop faith in the Dick Held style of throwing. I believe I'm one of the fe w m2nt s occurred in the [ifth lap as Kein o tried to break away on the wl10 sti ll uses his old cross-step at the time nf relea se ." lli s third back stret ch only to have the [ield catch up again as Grellc dart ed toss was a foul, and then he was too excited to continue and elected past Burleson and came up on Day's shoulder . With 550 yards re to pass his remaining throw s. maini ng, Keino tossed of f his orange cap, a move which promp .ted Only three javc lini s ts h;ive thro\\·n farther in history: Norwa Ryun to say later, "'When I s;iw him throw o[f his cap, I s.1id to my Tcrje retle rse n at 300'11"", Finland's Jorma Kinnunen at 289'2"" and sel[ 'i[ he's going to sp nnt all the way home he can ha ve it., .. But Car lo Lievore at 28·1 '7'". In the English system of measurement, Keirn, barely picked up the p;ice and p.1ss ed the seve n lap mark in Tushaus' and jilnis Lu s is ' bests arc the same, but Tushau s' mark 7:2fl.:l, exactly five-t enths ahead of both Grclle a nd Ryu n. [n the WJs also measured in meters at 8fL GS, two ce ntimeters Jurther tha, middl e or the first curve, Ryun moved sw iftly up ,rnto Kei no's s houlder Lusis' lx:,;t. The J\111erican mark (282 •3~ "') was held by Al Cantello. where he stayed for th e next 22 0. Th e Kansas freshman made l1is which when se t in 19:,:) was a world record that held up for two year . bigge s t move o n the final curve and dashed pa s t Keino with Gre-lle Tt1e two two-111ile races produ ce d oy far the best times in th !". in dc $pCratc pursu it. Ryun ;ic:tually lwd a sever;tl yard lead in the running events, though the relays were faster than the open eve nts, stret, :h, but Grelle was moving the fastest :iml ;ill but caug ht a s low out s ide th e 46. 3 registered hy San Jose CC 's Lee Evans which was ing Ryun, who it a lmo st ~ppeared was tiring in the final st rid es. lat er disallowed becaus e he had, bY. official's count, run outside his It's difficult to say what anothe .r l\J yards would have done to the lane on the final curve for 25 y;:ird s th_ough he denied this. He led al fini s h, hut there was no more running room and Ryun once again the way but put on a strong, head -wobbling finish down the home had Grelle's number . stretch. What the running events may have lac ked in the way of Keino simp ly did n't have the same kick and fini s hed in a quality aad depth the field events not unexpectedly inade up for. Eve ,.:red itable 8:29.8 . &1rleson lost contact in the final 330 ya rds and field event was clas sy . required 70 seco nds to finish in 8:39. 6, behind Smith who pas sed Randy Mat so n forgot abo ut his weight problem and bad knee Bur leson with remarkable ease o n the l101i1e s tr e tch to post 8:37 .4, long enough to be impressive. Coming into tl1e meet, he trailed hi s be s t outd oo r s. Da)l look ed good :im l w;is in exce ll ent posit ion Oregon's Neu ! Steinhauer by a quarter of an inch on the yearly list, until he suddenly fell onto th e in.field just after the six lap mark. A GG'9~·· to GG'l0 "'. &[ore the meet he said he was concerned but not b;icl hee l injury acted up to force Day ou t of the race and cause -Coach wo-rried. J\nd he quickly dispelled any ch<rnce Sternhauer m,iv have Jim Bus h to say he didn't know whether his 1965 NCAA mile champ had with the third greatest throw 111 the hi story of the event, 69'2½ · would be able tc1complete th e seaso n. on his very first throw. Steinhau .er s till m anage d a creditab le 64'6"" Southern CalLtornia's two-mile rel ay team ran an inspired while Parry O'Brien came up with still another lifetime best, in hi s ra ce, inspired because they were after the world record they wanted 19th year of competition, of 64'2¾". Intere st ingly, Parry was so hi ) to dedicate to assistant coach Willie Wilson, who was so weak from after the performance that he encountered difficulty slee ping that termin a l canc e r that he couldn't even be present for the meet though night.