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Vol, 13, No, 22 June 22, 196'7 · Page 1z
Great NCAA Topped by Swift Sprinting heats while Flowers c !aimed the meet record with a 13. 4 semi as Earl the Pearl, as he is known in the California southland, was run by Bert Nelson ning 13.5 . Defending champ Ron Copeland of UCLA was a threat to Provo, Utah, June 15, 16, 17 - -Speed and more speed was the both, but he blew his chances with a bad start in the final. And it keynot e of a highly successful NCAA championship meet that saw was at the start that McCullouch won. Always a quick reactor who favored University of Southern California annex its 24th and one of picks up a number of false starts by trying to guess the gun, Earl its easier wins. •hit this one just right and was never headed . He had about a yard King-sized Randy Matson and throw--back-sized Gerry Lind on Flowers, but the Tennessee star never lost his cool and went to gren annexed two victories each for the second year in a row. Paul work . He gained only a little until near the end and in the run for Wilson vaulted 17'4"but still remained only the second best USC the tape he made up a lot of ground. But it was too late and McCul sophomore as teammate Bob Seagren claimed the win by also clear louch was the winner, in 13.4, by three-hundred .ths or one foot. ing 17'4". And there was spirited competition throughout. Flowers claimed his second 13.4 as Copeland was beaten into the But the focus of attention was on the speed merchants . TI1e nl)mber four spc· by ·Erv Hall of Villanova. rubber-asphalt track proved as fast as any in history and some of The mile relay record went, _in a great race, to Iowa with a the finest dashmen ever took full advantage of it. Charlie Gre ene, . 3:06.8 win over Rice, 3:07. 2 . Mike Mondane, who had run well in Tommie Smith, Lennox Miller, Earl McCullouch and Richmond a highly competitive quarter, anchored in 46. 2 for the winners . But Flow e rs were nothing less than great, but the most memorable im the fastest runs of the race were 45 . 6 legs by Bill Bruckel, who pression was lef t by the fantastic USC 440 relay quartet. brought surprising Cornell into third. and by Copeland, who got Earl McCullouch, Fred Kuller and O. J . Simpson poured it UCLA into fifth as Cornell, California and UCLA all ran 3:08 . 0 . Y on all the way, building an unbelievable lead , and when Miller flew No r ec ords fell in the 440 but there was some fine running . ( _ .1 down the final straight a good 20 yards ahead you knew the time had Emmett Ta ylor of Ohio University was the winner in the bigg e st to be extraordinary. It was. The stop watches read 38. 6. Just a surprise of the meet and he didn't wait long to start his surprise . year ago the new world mark wa s a full second slower a nd SC's 39.0 He ripped of f a 45. 9 trial run, did 46. 0 in the semi-final, and got of last week was thou gh t to be the ultimate--by all except the Tro another 45. 9 in the final. His victory was all the more notable as jans . Now the three sophs and one junior (McCullouch) feel they can it came froni the tight inside lane and he neede d every bit of his go fast e r as the last handoff was two or three te nths less than per speed and guts to beat off Steve Carson of Iowa State who also ran fection. 45.9. Carson had trials of 46.4 and 46.2 while Mondane, who was It was the seventh race in thr ee days for Miller a nd all of a close third in 46.0, had run 46.3 and 45·_9 before the final. them were hyper-fast. The Jamaican je t ran 9.2, 9.3 and 9.3 in One of d1e most impressive bits of speed came from Jim Ryu the 100 and 20.5, 20 .4 and 20.4 in the 220. His 9 . 2 and 20.5 on Content to let others set a pace which lagg ed to a schoolboy 3:10, 9, Thursday constitute the second best one-day sprint double . But Miller the incomp ara ble Kansan waited until the seventh furlong ')()St to failed to win an individual title . make his m ove. Then he went into an all-out sprint action to break He lost the century crown to Charlie Greene who was a t his the race wide-open. The next 100 yards were covered in 9.9-se greatest. Although NCAA titlist for th e last two years, Greene had conds and the final 120, from the 1500 post, in 14. 0, which is the never bettered 9. 3 and his best for 1967 was an unimpressive 9. 5. quickest finish on record. Jim 's final go-round was 52 . 4 and the But Charlie run s to win, and he does it exceedingly well. This time last 220 23. :J, although Ryun thought the 220 clocking should be fast· he faced competition, both from Mill er and from Jim Hines, who er. Rosco e Divine of Oregon tried to match Ryun's blazing burst bu wasn't in the meet but who lick ed Greene in the ir last outing and who had no chance aldwugh he successfully left the rest of the pack far says he · will take the Nebraskan in the AAU. . behind. Divine faded some in d1e stretch and a fast closing Sam Bai: Charlie responded _to the challen ge m agnificent ly. He told got to within a half-s econd as Ryun clocked 4:03. 5. Divine 4:06. 2 friends he might run 9.1 in th e trials, and that he did, equalling the and Bair 4:06, 7. global mark of immort a l Bob Hayes. Afterwards . Greene confessed Southern California won the meet with ns sprinters, s;<..u,u1~ he wasn't all out and talked about a nine ·flat or eve n an 8. 9 run. But 41 of its 84 points by members of t he relay team. The relay team in the se mis he got a poor start and ran only ·co win, clocking 9. 4. earned 10 points as did McCullouch, while Miller picked up 16, Later that same Friday night came the showdown with Miller. Greene Kuller four for fourth in th e 100, and Simpson one for sixth for the vas i>ff well a nd enjoyed a two foot lead in the ea rly going. But at pre-,;eason and pr e- meet favored Trojans. · The vaulters contribute · {- 10· yards Mi lie r was closing. He cut the lead to less than a foot and 18 po'ints, Gary Carlsen was second in the discus, Dennis Carr and ,, _1_, Miller and the crowd expec ted a tight finish. Charlie, who has his Dave Buck ran second and sixth , in the 880 , Geoff Vanderstock was own way of doing things, dis a ppoint ed them. Shifting gea rs, a tactic third in the intermediates, the mile relay tea m picked up a sixth, he always talks about but seldom ha s to use, Gree ne s lid away from and Paul Kerry', the 1965 hurdle champ who has been beset with in the sti ll flyin g Miller. At the-,.f:\nish he was e leve n-hundredths, or juries, had his best race in two years to finish sixth in the highs . nearly four feet ahead . The time was 9. 2 but Charlie sa id it should Oregon was a solid second with . 40 points as defender UCLA be faster as the run fe lt quicker than hi s 9 .1 .- finished third with 27. jus t ahead of host Brigham Young (26), New Miller lost di e c ur ved furlong to Tommie Smith, who owned Mexico (24), Tennessee (24), low_a {22), Southern !llinois (22), Wash the even t until Hines whipped him in the Compton meet. But Tommie in gton Stat e (21), Kansas (20) and Texas A&M (20). UCLA hopes, start ed back with his 20. lat Sacramento .1nd arrived he re with three high at th e start of the season, were shattered when they lost most 20. 2 times in as man y races. As if to prove his versatility. th e San of their sprint strength before the meet and what was left of it in Jose State senior did it thre e different ways. In the t r ials, shortly ,!1e meet , when Harold Busby pulled up lame and a makeshift 440 after Greene's n. I, Smith got one of hi s bett er starts and flew the relay team lost th e baton. first 80 ur 100 yards, 111uci1faster than usual. !Jut he hung a little Matson, who likes neither th e cool weather which prevailed in the stre tc h . In the se mi he ran th e c ur ve a little harder than nor the bi g fields which allow a competitor to cool off between turn s usual, but slnwe r than in th e first 20.2. And in the final. facing the had no trouble to double. His 67 ' 9¾'' put was a me e t record . well chal'lenge of 1v1iller. Tt,mrnie reverted to his slow start-fast finish ahead of potential troublemaker Neal Steinhauer' s 64' 2". The dis style and came from behind. Miller is a great you ng sop h , probably cus was a lit.tie m ore difficult but challenger Carlsen came up with at his best in the 220, but as ye t he is ni,t a match for Smith at his three fouls and a best of 186 '4". Randy topp ed that three times an, peak. Smith's 20. 2s co nstitut ed rneet records. won with l!JO' 4". Speedsters also acc ,,umed for n1cet marks in the high hur Lindgren had no chance for records in the 4500 foot a ltitud e dles a nd mi le relav. Running against a wind. McC ull ouc h and Rich but he complete ly dominated first th e six-mile and then the three. Flowers both had i3.-ls. Fl,;we .rs, in 'r:ict. had a pair of them but He pulled away from Os car Moore of Southern Illin ois we!! before it was McCullouch who won the g,ild Tl1cy each ran 13:6 in tile the end of hoth ra ces . winning in 28:4 4. 0 and l J: •17. 8. Monrc was Pa.ge 128 June 22, 1967 second in the longer_ go but fourth iri the three-miler. Glenn Ogden, The steeplechase had its best ever field, headed by Bob the bespectacled 8:46 two-miler from Missouri, surprised with a Richards, the de.fending ch amp from BYU, Chris McCuhbins of fine 13:58. 6 for second as George Scott of New Mexico outkicked Oklahoma State, Conrad Nightingale of Kansas Sta te, Bob Williams Moore for the third. of Oregon, Web Laudat of New !vlexico and Bob Price of California. The vaulting was outstanding even though it turned into a Richards, who failed to qualify in tJ1e mile the previous night, in dual m ee t between USC and UCLA . Rick Sloan of UCLA ·had him explicably went out at a 2:13 suicidal pace as all except Price · self a big night, alternating between the vault and high jump pits. lagge d in the rear of the pack. Richards had a 25 or 30 yard lead He jumped 6' 9" and then had a personal best of 16'8" which was at one time but it caught up with him and the pack closed in, sna p good only for fourth. Teammate Dick Railsback was the next to go, ping at his heels. Just as McCubbins and gang were about to go by clearing 17'0, well above Brian Sternberg's 16'4j" meet mark, but the faltering Richards the latter hit a hurdle and fell. But he was getting third . The remaining battle was between Seagren and Wil doomed anyway. McCubbins, fuH of run, began to pull away from son. They matched heights right up the line, passing 15' O", 15' 6", friend Nightingale and widened the gap as they nea red the end. His and 16'4" and clearing 16' 0", 16'8", 17'0" and 17'4". But Seagren 8:51.4 was a good altitude mark, far ahead of the stadium record was in _command all the way, vaulting first and having no misses of 9: 27. 4. and well ahead of Nightingale's 9: 00 . 0 . Laudat came on as Wilson failed once at each of the four heights he _made. Wilson, to catch third ahead of Williams as Price, who also went out too who missed most of the season with inJuries . had to go higher than fast, paid the price and finished fifth . Seagren to win and he a lmost did it. His third try at a world record Unlike most of the other events. the intermediates pro 17'8" was close and better than any of Seagren's tries. duced two notable casualties in the .heats. Tony Pickett of Houston · One other meet record fell. That was the triple jump where came up lane while Dave Adkins, Alabama's 50.5 hurdler, slowed long striding, slow moving Art Baxter of New Mexico won handi ly. at the tape and was nipped out of a qualifying spot. Meanwhile, Bob He had three of the six jumps over 50-feet, h'is best being 52'4¼". Steele, the defender from Michigan State, and Jon Reimer of Iowa, The other trio of 50-footers went to surprising Scott Etnyre of who had beaten Steele all year , took over the favorite's role . Fast Utah who was second with 51' lf' . . est time of the season belonged to ·usc•s Geoff V2.nderstock bit he I The one real upset of the meet took place in the high jump been very ill from a pen icillin reaction on Tuesday and coach Vern where favored Ed Caruthers of Arizona lost 'his first meet of the Wolfe figured Geoff would be lucky -to reach the finals. Vanderstocl year. Ed cleared a good 7' l" but he had two mis s es on the way up figured he had nothing to lose and forged the early pace with Andy while soph Steve Brown of Idaho had no failures until they attempted Bell of American . But Steele came on strongly in the drive .to win 7' 2". Thira, an inch behind Brown and Caruthers, was home town in 50. 2. After twice reversing their decision, officials finally favorite Ed Hanks of BYU, a 5' 9" shorty who was the happiest kid of awarded second to Bell and third to Vanderstock, 50.6 to 50.7, as the meet when he made 7' o:·. · was shown by the phototimer. Reimer dropped to sixth, while RogE Jim Helton of Utah State dominated the long jump until Gary Johnson of UCLA, second last year, was well back in seven Ard of Kansas took his last jump. Helton, second last year but Where phototimer photos were available, non-winnir, ,nes little heard of between NCAAs. led the trials with 25'~" and had all · were adjusted , using the hand-timed wirrning marks in accordance his leaps over 24-feet as most jumpers were well short of their best. witJ1 the approved IAAF conversion factor. In cases where times Ard caught the big one on his final effort, soaring 25 '9", and while differ, the adjusted mark is listed first, with the hand-timed mark Helton guttily responded with his best, 25' 2½", it wasn't enough . in parentheses. Javelin throwers had trouble with a wet runup in the non 100: Heats (6/15 , four qualify/, l (0. 0 mph winct)-l. Rovere (E counting qualifying round and some of them did much better in the Tenn St) 9. 5; 2. Thrift (Tenn) 9. 6; 3. Matison (NM) 9. 6; 4. R. finals, held two days later. Delman McNabb, short and stocky and Smith (Cal Poly/SLO) 9. 6; 5. Deibele (Ore) 9. 7; 6. Rhodes (Ohio U from Louisiana State , took over on the second round with a heave of 10 . 1; 7 . C . Hight (LSl)~nt. II (headwind)-l. L. Miller (So Cal) 9. 257' 2" and was never challenged. He improved to 263' 5" on his . 2. Bright (Ariz St) 9. l./'.r_3. Bernauer (Rice) 9. 6;. 4. '..femple (Wash) final toss and had another of 247' 2", good enough to beat the 246 ' 0" ·ni .9.8; ' ,~( Co~hran(Nill)V.8) 6. Wagner(Tennj,10 . 2;17. Hurd(N second place throw of Oregon's Bill_Heikkila. Phil Lowry of Or egon Dame)'clO. 2\ III (0. 0 mph)-l. Freeman (Murray St) 9.4; 2. Simp State was the only other over 240 -feet , hitting 243'1" for third as gen son (So Cal) 9. 6; 3. Busby (UCLA) 9. 6; 4. Richburg (Kent St) 9. 6; erous officials failed to call a single throw foul for landing flat. 5 . W. Jones (Mont) 9.6; 6. Bassett(NebrWes)9.8; 7. Camin1ti(NM Another of many favorites to win was Bob Narcessian of 9. 8. IV (3. 34 lllJ?h)-1. Greene (Nebr) .9.1 );:WR, EAR, ECR, MR· Rhode Island. With four throws uver 190-feet he fought off Ton, 2. Kuller (So Cal) '9.5; 3. J. Lee (Md):9.5; 4_. Reeves (BYU) -9.5~ "' Fraus of Cornell (194'1") and Jim Kavanagh of Boston College (192'lson. l'uhlisher. (21. 3); 8. Talmadge 21.5 (21. 3); Busby scratched. Most subscriptions ex p, re after just two more issues (unless you sub Final (6/ 17. 1. 87 mph), To. Smith 20. 2 EMR; 2. L. Miller scnbnl for a long- tet'm nr started in the mitkUe of a volume). Now 20. 4; 3. Bright 20. 6 (20 . 5); -1. Rovere 20. 7 (20. 5); 5. Reeves 20. is the time to send your $G. 00 for 2·1 issues in US, Mexico and Can 6. Richa1rg 20. S; 7. Belzung 21. 0; 8. Kuller 21.5. all1. For ntl1er speci,d rates. see TN number 21. Remaining -issues 440: llcats (6 / J:i . four Qllalify). 1-1. E. Tavlor (OhioU) 45.9; In this ""li11nc will lie m,i'ilcd June 2!) :111dJuly 20. Track & Field 2. Carson(laSt)4G . 4; 3. W. 17wmas(LamarTech)47.2; 4. Wan Nc:v,s will h<' out July G. ,\u,:. 2·1 and Sept. ZR. (Stan) 47. 2; 5. Forbes (Neb r) 47.4; 6. D. Busby (Utah) 47.4; 7. June 22, 1987 Page 129 Dunne (Id St) 47. 5. II-1. Domansky (UCLA) 46. 7; 2. Schuder (Rut) (Tenn) 13. 8; 2. Blum (Ore) 13. 8; 3 . .Kerry (So Cal) 14. 0; 4. Elliolt 47.4: 3. Pancoast(OreSt)47.4; 4. Achee(UCSB)47.6; 5. Hajec (Cornell) 14.1; 5. Walsh (Stan) 14. 5; 6. Voorhees (Utah) 14. 5; Roe (Loras) 47. 6; 6. Holbrook (Kans St) 48. 0; 7. Wolff (So Cal) 48. 7. (Wash) fell. II (heachvind)-1. R. Copelanci (UCLA) 13,9; 2. Hall (Vil! ! III-1. Mondane (Ia) 46. 3; 2. MacKenzie (So Ill) 47. 2; 3. C. Brown 13. 9; 3. Utecht (SMU) 14. 2; 4. Rogers 1San Jose St) 14. 3; 5. (Rice) 47. 2; 4. Hengl (Cal) 47. 2; 5. R. Greene (Clemson) 47. 3; 6. Kelly(FlaSt) 14.4; 6. J. Taylor(Clem) 14.4; Kurrle(LBSt)fell. Withers (AF) 47. 7. IV-1. Benson (So Ill) 46. 5; 2. Banks (NE Mo St) III (headwind)-1. Flowers (Tenn) 13. 6 EMR; 2. Byers {Kans) 14. 0; 3. li l !47 . o;· 3. Dunn (ACC) 47. O; 4. Olison (Kans) 47. 3; 5. Shackelford \Vilkerson (Rice) 14.1; 4. D. Williams (Wash) 14. l; 5. LeMon (',vn (SanJoseSt)47.7; 6. Bush(Auburn)47.9; 7. Gall(UCLA) 18.0 . Mich) 14.4; 6. J. Copeland (Conn) 14.4; 7. Keller (Colo) .o.4.6; Semis (6/16, four qualify): I-1. E. Taylor 46. 0; 2. Domansky IV (heachvind)-1. McCullouch (So Cal) 13.6 EMR; 2. 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St) 13:09. 2; 3. L. Scott (Ariz St) 13:20. 0. SP, Steen 60'10½"· 2 Eugue!lez (Cuba) 10 .3. 10, OOOm, Kiss 28:46. 8; 2. Mecser 28:47 . 2; O'Bri en (PAA) 60'2". ' ' 3. Pinter 28:47 . 4; 4. Szrenyi 28:53.2; 5. Eisenberg (EG) 29:01.2; AC, Pasad ena, Calif., June 17--100, Nash (S Afr) 9.5. 220·, 6. Szutka (Pol) 2.9:01.4 ; 7. Johnston (Eng) 29:10 .2 . DT, Fejer 188'7'" Nash 21.L SP, Davis {PAA) 61'10" . DT, Neville {PAA) 187'9"; 2. JT, Nemeth'272'7½": 2. Kulcsar 257'0". ITT, Beyer (WG) 222'7"; 2. Harper (Strid) 184'3"; .3. Swenson {PAA) 177'2". JT, Mann {PAA) Zsivotsky 221 '½"; 3. Bakarinov 217 '11". TJ, Kalocsai 54 'llf '; 2. 227 '7''. . Schmidt (Pol) 54 'Bf'; 3. Ruckborn 54 '6¾"; 4. Ivanov 54 '5½"; 5. VANCOUVER , B. C., June 17--lOOm, W. Turner (Ore St Fr) Nemsovsky 53'5¾"w . SP, Varju 61'2". 400mR , Cuba ;40 ,0. 10. 2; 2. Jerome (VOS) 10. 3. 200m, W. Turner 21. 2; 2. Jerome MOTSPUR PAtlK, ENG. --2Mile, Taylor 8:30. 2. 21. 3. HARTLEPOOL, ENG. --Mile, Simpson 3:58 . 4; 2. Rix 4:02. 8. TORONTO, ONT. --SP, Steen 60'3¾". TRONDJHEIM, NOR . -"JT, Baluyav (USSR) 253'0". AC, Mesa, Ariz., June 17--DT, Cole (unat) 205'1". KRISTIANSTAD, SWE--llOmHH, Forssander 13.9 . 5000m, INTER-SERVICE, Quantico, Va., ]\,111e16-17--800m J. Perry Alanov (USSR) 13:51. 6; HJ, Tivikov (USSR) 6'10¾". . (M) w1~.4; 2. T. Farrelf(A);' 3. Garvir{(M); 4. _Sugden' (A\;fs: Groth•(A)1(all placers bettered AAU qualifying standard of 1:50. 8). 10,000m, Clark (M) 31:05 . 8. Gaines 9 .3, Proctor 26' 5 3-4" With Wind MAINE AAU, Brunswick, June 17--HT, Schulten (Waterville AC) from Hugh Gardner 186'6"; 2. Best (BTAC) 167'11". Sacramento, _Calif., June 17--The wind blew away Bill Gaines' KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS, Philadelphia, June 18--120HH , R. and Jerry Proctor's record efforts, and one of hurdler Bill Tipton's. Rogers (GSBC) 14.1. JT, Sonsky (Bruce TC) 243'4"; 2. Skinner But Tipton and two other preps came up with national high school re (Del TC) no mark listed. cords at the Golden West Invitational. Tipton.of Central in Pontiac. LONG ISLAND AC MEET OF CHAMPS, Brookville, N,Y. , June Mich. , sped the curved 180 low hurdles in 18. 3; the 330 interme 17--TJ, H . Jackson (Wn Ky Fr) 51'2¼". diates mark went to Joe Kurzrok of Mt. Vernon, N. Y. (37. 3), and Karl Salb of Crossett, Ark. , wiped out the oldest prep record ,vhen he muscled the shot 69'6". Gaines, the only junior in the meet for senior stars, again raced a 9 . 3 100 to tie his national record. But an 8. 9 mph breeze nullified it for record purposes. Officials let Gaines compete since he'll be too old for high school competition in New Jersey next year. TALLINN, USSR--Dec, Klauss (EG) 7694; 2. Tiedtke (EG) Proctor put to~ethe,· an impressive wind-aided long jump series. 7624; 3. Beyer (WG) 7588; 4. Shcherbatov 7572; 5 . Walde (WG) He sailed 26'5;;" (with an 11. 3 mph wind) on his best attempt, and '5 66. two others measured 26'1¼" . IENA, E. GER. --lOOm, Eggers 10. 3; 2. Erbstosser 10 . 3; HJ, 'Tipton swept over the 120 highs in 13.4, which would ·"lave ) Koppen 6'11!". LJ, Beer 25'5½". OT, Losch 192'0", topped the national record by a tenth had he not been helped by a 7. 9 C·•' BELGRADE, YUG . --SP, Komar (Pol) 62'.2½''. . mph wind. The breeze quieted to 3, 7 as he clipped three-tenths ST. MAUR, FR.--lOOOm, Toussaint 2:19 . 9; 2. Dufresne 2:20.1 ; from the low hurdle mark. The ex-record holder, Wayne Collett, 3. Martin (GB) 2:20. 4; 4. Haupert (Lux) 2:21. 1. 3000m, Salomon matched his old standard of 18. 6. 7:53 . 2; 2. Jackson (GB) 7:53 . 4; 3. Jazy 7:54. 2; 4. Nicolas 7:55. 2. 100 (8. 9 mph aiding wind), Gaines 1Clear,1ew, Mullica Hill, NJ) GROSSETO, IT. --lOOm, Figuerola (Cuba) 10;3. 5000m, Koz 9, 3; 2. J. Green (Eminence, Ky) 9.4; 3. Gray (Montgomery, Santa lov (USSR) 13:58.0 . 400mIH, Frinolli 51.2. DT, Begier (Pol) 194 ' 6"; Rosa, Cal) 9. 4; 4. Masters (El Cerr ito, Cal) 9. 5; 5. Highbaugh 2. Milde (EG) 192'9½"; 3. Piatkowski (Pol) 191 '7". JT, Sidlo (Pol) (Washington, Indianapolis, Ind) 9. 5; 6. Gentry (Ector, Odessa, Teii:) 272'2"; 2, Nemeth (Hun) 263'5½". 9. 6; 7. Black (Triinble Tech, Ft Worth, Tex) 9. 6; 8. Goodrich (E LONbON, ENG. --2Mile, McCafferty 8:35 . 8; 2. Graham 8:37 . 2; St Louis, Ill) 9. 7. 3, Rushmer 8:37. 8. 220 (wind ok), Gray 21. O; 2. Gaines 21. O; 3. Pharris (Anaheim OSLO, NOR. --1500m, Kvalheim 3:45. 8. Cal) 21. 3; 4. Masters 21. 4; 5 . Goodr:ich 21. 4; 6. Highbaugh 21. 5; AARHUS, FR.- -1500m , Wadoux3:40 . 9; 2. Baran(Pol)3:41.6; 7. Medlock (Dunbar, Lubbock, Tex) 22. 0. 3. Odlozil (Cze) 3:41.9; 4. Give (Den) 3:42.4 . 440. Newton (Whittier, Cal) 47 .5; 2. Green 47.5; 3. Thomps on OSLO, NOR. --3000m. Shamshurin (USSR) 7 :59. 2. (Clark, Opalousa, La) 48. 1; 4. Morton (Memorial, Houston, Tex) CO'ITBUS, E. GER. - -HJ. Pfeil 6'111". 48.2; 5. Hyman (Jackson, Queens, NY) 48 . 7; 6. Bahnfleth {Palatine, BREMEN, W. GER. --JT. Timmer 256'9". Ill) 49.1; 7. Agner (Centennial, Gresham, Ore) 50.1. · .MAINZ, W. GER . -- 5 000m. Phillip 13:59. 0. JT, Drecoll 880, Morton 1:51. 8; 2. Jackson (Boys, Brooklyn, NY) 1:51. 8; . 3. 6'10~". Martinez (Wilson, LA, Cal) 1:52. 2; 4. Banks (Dorsey, LA) 1:52. 5; CASSEL, W. GER. --;iOOOm, Gerlach 13:57 . 4; 2. Krausse 5. Fairchild (Encina, Sacramento, Cal) 1:52. 6; 6. Merwin (Mary Hl:58 .4. PV, Lehnertz 16'1". SP, Birlenbach 60'0"; 2. Glockler vale, Phoerux, Ariz) 1:52 . 9; 7. Burgson (Brigham Young, Provo, 59'8}". HT , Beyer 218'9" . Utah) 1:57. 6. SUCHTEIN, W. GE R. --DT. Reimers 190'7 ½". Mile, Liquori (Essex Catholic, ,Newark, NJ) 4:08. O; 2. Michael DARMSTADT, W. GER. --llOmHH, Trzmi el 14. 0. DT, Neu (Hargrave, Chatham, Va) 4:08. 2; 3. Vandr ey (Valparaiso, Ind) 190'2". 4:09. 3; 4. Gonzales (Falfurrias, Tex) 4:10. O; 5 . Bigley (Clairmont, J\NVERS, BELG. --HJ , Spielvogel (WG) 6'10J". San Diego, Cal) 4:11. 2; 6. Solomon (Westminster, Cal) 4:1L5; 7. KOSLIN, POL. --D ec, Dctko 7324 NR. Calv e rt (Guilford. Rockford . Ill) 4:12.4. NORRKOPING, SWE., May 31--HJ. Dahlgr en 6'10f' . 2Mile, Romero (Reedley, Cal) 9:02. 6; 2. Lyons (Central Cath UMEA, SWE, June 11--DT, Hag lund 190'3 }". olic, Portland, Ore) 9:04. O; 3. Squires (Marshall, Portland, Ore) STOCKHOLM, SWE . . June 13--1500m , Hogberg 3:40. 8; 2. 9:09 . 8; 4. 1\facias (Belmont, LA) 9:15. 8; 5. Mason (Hobbs, NM) Gardcrud 3:41 . 7: 3. Ekman 3:44 ,.4; 4. J.-1. Olsson 3:44 . 5. 5000m , 9:23.4; 6. Pottctti (Fox Lane, Bedford, NY) 9:25. 6; 7. Walls Alanov (USSR) 13:44 .1 ; 2. T~rin (USSR) 13:45. 6. DT, Haglund (Tait. Bronx . NY) 9:33. 2. 191'3" ; 2. 111orith (EG) 189' 2'.'. 1_20HH (7 . 9 mph), Tipton (Central, Pontiac, Mich) 13. 4; 2. WARSAW. POL. - -zoom. Werner 20. 8. TJ. Jaskolski 52' 8*". Proctor (Muir, Pas.Jdena, Cal) 13,7; 3. Walk e r (East , Wichita, Kan) SP, Komar 59'5". 13. 7; 4. Daniels (Mt Vernon, NY).-13. 7; 5. Faubion (McKinney, SOSZALIN, POL. --Dec. Deteso 7324 NR. Tex) 13. 8; 6. L. Williams (Perth Amboy, Nn 13. 8. BUCAREST, RUM. - -HJ. loan 6'10;;" NR. DT. Nagy 191'2½" NR. l ROLHt (3. 7mph), Tipton 18. 3 HSR; 2. Collett(Gardena, Ca) 18. 6; SOCHAUX, FRANCE , June 17-- 20 0mt, Berger 20.8. 1500, Wa- 3. Proctor 18. 8; 4. Upton (Minden, La) 18. 8;· 5. Picou (Cohen, New doux :i:38.4; 2. Colin :l:11.:l: 3. Vervoort 3:41.4; 4 .. Toussaint Orleans) 19. l; 6. B. Smith (SW, Kansas City, Mo) 19.4; 7. G. · 3:42.0; 5. Ja zy 3:4: l.n; I>. D:1rrn1
PV, Sprung (Pomona, Cal) 14'8"; 2. Reynolds (Morningside, HT: (B) Burke. (CJ Frenn, Connelly-Gage. (D) Pryde, Hall, Inglew00d, Cal) 14'8"; 3. Cutler (Newport News, Va) 14'4"; 4. Hanley-B. Narcessian, Zilincar. McClung (Lawton, Okla) 13'6"; 5. G. Miller (Alamagordo, NM) JT: (B) Covelli-Floerke-McNabb, (CJ CClllley-Skinner -Stuart. 13; 6"; 6. Ernst (Renton, Wash) nh. (D) FitzSimons (?F) -Murro, Heikki_la-Moschis-Stenlund. LJ, Proctor 26'5¾"w (also 26'1¼"w, 26'1¼"w); 2. Gray 25'7¼"w; 3. Reed (Yuma, Ariz) 25'3f'w; 4. McArthur (Lawton, Okla) 24'3"w; 5. Hines (Vanden, Fairfield, Cal) 23'9¾"; 6. Lewis (Evanston, lll) Stiles' Favorite Coliseum Race 22'6½"w; · by Maxwell Stiles TJ. Gadson (Taft, Bronx, NY) 48'5"; 2. Dunn (Leigh, San Jose, (Reprinted from the Hollywood Citizen-News) Cal) 47'11½"; 3. Burnham (Penn Hills, Pittsrurgh, Pa) 47'6½"; 4. What was the most exciting footrace ever held in the Los An Parker (Sandy Springs, Atlanta, Ga) 46'9¾"; 5 . West (Hempstead, NY) 46'9". geles Memorial Coliseum? Was it the 1966 classic duel between Pe SP. Salb (Crossett, Ark) 69'6" HSR; 2. Wilhelm (Fremont, ter Snell ;inci Jim Grelle? W:is it Eddie Tolan vs. Ralph Metcalfe in Sunnyvale, Cal) 65'10"; 3. Buchler (Whittier, Cal) 64'1½"; .4. Ben the Olympic Games 100-meters in 1932, the Babe Didrikson - Evelyn bercy (Bloom, Chicago Heights, _Ill) 62'6"; 5. Taylor (Canandaigua, Hall in the women's hurdles in that same Olympiad? What about the NY) 61'1o½"; 6. Catallo (E, Detroit) 59'9½"; 7. M. Williams (Lake half-mile race run here last summer between Charlette Cooke of Stevens, Wash) 58'0". . . Los Angeles and Judy Pollock of Australia? That was the most dra - DT, Debevc (Geneva, 0) 191 '6"; 2. Miller (Hilliard, 0) 188'6"; matic and sensational race I've seen in the Coliseum since 1932; I 3. DeBernardi (Hart, Newhall, Cal) 184'11"; 4. Korver (Irving, Tex) have to go back to the 5000-meters of the tenth Olympiad for the mos, 183'7"; 5. Willis (Medford, Ore) 179'3"; 6. Landes (Palo Alto, Cal) dra_matic, roaring, man vs. man duel of them all. 177'3"; 7. Dietz (Rye Neck, Mamaroneck, NY) 177'0"; 8, Gretz That was the famous contest between Lauri Lehtinen, the Fini (Lincoln, Manitowoc, Wis) 158'11". and an odds-on favorite, and Ralph Hill of Oregon. All anybody knew JT, Murro (Essex, Newark, NJ) 247'4"; 2. Kuovolo (Ambridge, about Ralph Hill was that he had once run a mile in 4:12. It was agreed that Hill didn't belong on the same track with Lehtinen. Be Pa) 235'3"; 3. Harding (C Linn, Halsey, Ore) 208'5"; 4. Clepper fore the race was over, it appeared that Lauri thought so, too, for h, (S Middletown, Boiling Springs, Pa) 204'11"; 5. Barnet (Horace he tried his best to rnn Ralph right off the track into the infield. · Mann. Bronx, NY) 200'11"; 6. Seymour (Elton, La) 199'9"; 7. It was a bitterly contested race in which Hill shook off the Rigby (Lake Oswego, Ore) 192'6". tiring number t:wo Finn, Lauri Virtanen, and stayed right in the 880R, All-star team (including Gaines, Tipton) 1:25;4. footsteps of Lehtinen. 1l1e last few laps it was a two-man race, all others having been outdistanced by nearly half a lap. Lehtinen had shortly before this race taken a big hunk off Paavo Nurmi 's v ' record for 5000-meters., Everyone was astonished to see H, ______ill (~) AAU Dope Sheet Revised After NCAA with him, a stride behind, as they came off the final turn into the - / Below is an updated versi9n of the AAU form chart which straight to make their drive for the tape. appeared in the June Track & Field News. Key: (A) almost certain American hearts beat fast and faster and Americans cheered to win; (!3) good chance to win; · (C) possible chance to win; (DJ loud and louder as they saw the amazing Oregon boy come into the little chance to win but definite chance to place in first six. In each final lO0~meters with a fighting chance to win the gold medal. Lauri of the A, B, C, D categories, commas (,) separating names indi hugged the rail close with the tape less than SO-meters away . Lehti1 cate definite order of preference. Dashes(-) connecting names nen could see the shadow of Hill creeping up on his on his right. Lei mean all are rated equally in alphabetical order. Other keys: (?) tinen moved over into the second lane, Foul mumber one. some question as· to which of one or more events an athlete will com - Hill sidled over. too, coming almost abreast--not quite. Be pete in or whether he will compete at all; (?F) foreign athlete, may fore Hill could draw even, Lehtinen moved out to the third lane. Fo1 not compete; (?I) injured. may not compete. number two. Hill dropped back and tried to pass on the_ inside. Lool 100: (B) Greene, Hines. (C) W. Turner. (D) Jerome (?F) ing over his shoulder, Lehtinen saw what Hill was trying to do. So Nash (?F), Bright-Gaines-Rovere, G. Anderson-Campbell (? F). the Finn moved back into the second lane. Poul number three. Carlos-Freeman -Harri s-Kuller- Lee. Now Hill again turned to the outside, to go around the right 0 1 220: (BJ To. Smith, Hines-W. Turner. (D) Carlos-Nash (?F), Lehtinen. Lauri, looking back and keeping an eye on Hill , again ran Bright-Harris-Rovere, Campbell (?F) -Ray, Freeman-Gray-Reeves out into the third lane. Foul number four. By now the Coliseum wa! -Richburg-Roberts ( ?F). in an uproar. The crowd was yelling for Hill to come, for Lehtinen 440: (B) Evans: (C) Matthews, Boggess(?). Taylor. (D) to be a sport and give the American a chance to pass on one side or Carson-Mondane, Benson-Domansl.-y-Francis (?)-Freeman-Gates the other. Again Lehtinen moved over toward the pole as he saw Hil Lewis (?)-Pancoast-Smothers (?)-Stinson, Crook-Frey-Kemp-Middle again try to come up inside him, to his left. Foul number five. ton . But Hill was a little too quick for him this time. Before Laur 880: (BJ Bell-Carr. (C) Kelly. T. Farrell (71). (D) Patrick could quite close the g:ip, Hill was there with what one might figur }. Perry-Urbina -Von Ruden. Buck-Hunt-Ne] son-Scott. atively call a foot in the door. Only. it was not merely a foot. It wa Mile: (A) Ryun. (D) Grelle, Burleson(?). Divine-Liquori a torso. Lehtinen could not quite gain lane one againwithout forcing Romo, Bair-Danielson-Duggan (?F), Wieczorek-Wilborn. Hill clear off the track. At this precise moment , the tape loomed UJ 3Mile: (B) Lindgren-Nelson-Tr. Smith. (C) Day-Larrieu- Both men lunged for it, The Finn managed to stumble over ine , Lawson. (D) Laris-Lynch - O. Moore-G. Scott-L. Scott . first, winner by less than a foot. · ____.,, ( . ) 6Mi!e: (B) Larrieu-Lindgren-Nclsc·n-Tr. Smith. (C) Laris. You've never heard such a Bronx cheer in your life as that bi '-- (D) D. Brown-Lawson-Mills-O. Moore. Heinonen-Friesz-Sharkey. boo the crowd gave Lauri Lehtinen. _At this moment announcer Bill 3000St: (B) Traynor, McCubbins. (C) Nigl1tingale, Young(?). Henry, 'who was techincal ad\'isor to the Games , admonished the (D) Loudat-Price-Richards-B. _Williams, Pearce (?F), Carius-Reilly. crowd, "Ladies and gentlemen, please remember that these people: Barrus-Best-Lehner-Manley-X. Moore(?). our guests." The booes stopped. There was a smattering of ap- 120Hll: (13)Davenport, Flowers-McCullouch. (C) Copeland plausc, all of it, I think, for the man who deserved it: Bill Henry. Lindgren. (D) Hall, Coleman. Byers-Kerry-Livers -Mann-Nairn Charges of unsportsmanlike conduct were lndged against Leh Neiswender -\Vil kerson. tin en, but after more than an hou F ·of deli be ration, the gutless judge , H0[H: (B) Whitney. Steele. Vanderstock. (C) Bell-Reimer announced that in their opinion the Finn had not wilfully interfered Wyatt. (D) Hager. LeMon. Ball-Coleman, Luck(?). with the American. Wilfully of not, there were five separate acts o· !JJ: (TI) Carnthers, S. Brown, C. Johnson. (C) Burrell-Hart interference. Had this happened in a horse race, the jockey probab ficl cl. (D) Dobroth. Hanks-I'. _fockson-Tull, Albright-G, Johnson would have been suspended for life. Raml»-"ll1omas, Fnsl:,Jrv-E. Miller-Saier: Lehtinen was officially censured in effect by a statement iss1 l'V: (I,\ Scagren.'Wilson. (C) Railsback, Phillips. (D) Chase by J. S. Edstrom of Sweden, president of the IAAF, who said, "Al -Sloan, Curts-1 legbr-l lein -l\fartensen-Miguel. though the authorities of the Amateur Athletic Union (of the United LJ: (fll Boston, Beamon. (D) Proctor, Hom-B, Miller, G. States) consider . the race not fairly rnn, there will be no official pre Hopkins-Jessie. Ard-Fox, Chilton (?)-Helton-Pousi (?F). test from either Mr. Hill or the United States." TJ: (ll) \l'alker. (Cl Craig. (D)Jlaxter-Horn-Samuels (?F), llill harbored no hard feelings , He said he felt it was not C. Rnbinsnn-l'ousi ('IF). Bc,:unon-H. Jackson-Tate, Bond-Boosey (?F) deliberate, that Lehtinen, weary, was merely steering a blind cour , Etnyrc-;>.!ou s:iicli s. Blind course, rny eye. But maybe Hill really won more than he lost SP:, jA) ;>.!atson. (D) Steinhauer. Maggard, Woods, K. Patera, that day in l'l32, Tocby many people remember the name of Ralph Colc-O'Bric 'n. C n·ws -Da\'i s ··Orrell. Hill, of Oregon and the San Francisco Olympic Club. Tirnse that cir DT: (B) Babka. Sil\'cster. Ocrter. (C) Carlsen-Weill. (D) will ask, "What was the name nf that i,ruy from Finland who heat Cole. Nc,i llc. him out?"