Etn1966 Vol12 23 USA Ch

TRACKNEWSLETTER SupplementingTRACK & FIELD NEWS Volwne 12, No, 23 ]UDe30, 1966 Pap 127 Davenport, Tracy Smith, Miller Feature AAU is faster. Tom, who is getting married July 2, said, 'I felt real strong today, much better than in the trials, when I ·was sick for 45 minutes by Jim Dunaway after the race. I was worried about being boxed, but got out of it jus New York, N. Y., June 25-26- -Willie Davenport set a meet and in time. I plan to miss the Polish meet because of my honeymoon, tied the collegiate record of 13.3 in the high hurdles, Jim Ryun ran a but I do want to nm ·against the Russians." He added that he feels he 52 .6 last 440 to give New York its first outdoor sub-four-minute mile can run "at least this fast" every ti.me out from now on. and Pat Traynor ran an 8:40.6 steeplechase for another meet record- In the mile, Ryun followed Richard Romo through a 63.8 first all in the 1966 AAU championships on ·a Randalls Island cinder track quarter, and pulled nearly alongside at the half in 2:05.9, with Dyrol in probably the best shape of its long life. Meet records were also Burleson, Tim Danielson and Jim Grelle in close atteoc!ance. The set by Art Walker in the triple jump and Ron Laird in the two-mile pace picked up, with Ryun, Burly and Grelle all running 60.1 for the walk, and tied tn the 440, the high jump and the pole vault. third lap, and they kept accelerating as Ryun moved in front on the · It was like old tim es at the AAU . Instead of the handful of backstretch. But still nobody was sprinting. Then, suddenly, some NCAA athletes who braved official d(spleasure to run last year, col body was. lt was Ryun, wlo spurted into a huge lead starting 180 lege athletes we re entered in droves as 62 out of the 100 scorers at yards from the tape. The 6'2", Kansas 19-year-oW kepi poliring it Bloomington, plus many more who had missed out there and were on to finish 12 yards· in front with a 3:58 .6. Ilis Last 440 was split in looking for another chance. 52.6, surely one of the most devastating Last quarters ever unlcashe< f'.___ _,..) Performances were unlfom1ly good right th-rough the program, in a mile race. To give you an idea, Burleson's Last quarter was a 1 \~. · averaging 972 points on the Portuguese tables, with a high of 1016 for sizzling 5:l.8- - faster than any of his up to this race--yet he lo~"t 10 Bob Scagren's 17-foot pole vau.lt and a low of 936 for Traynor's steeple yards, finishing second in 4:00.0 to Grelle's 4.:00.6·for third. chase, which nonetheless makes l1im the third fastest American behind Tracy Smith came within two - feet of an exceptional double wi1 George Young and Jeff f'ishhack. And the marks undoubtedly would at three- and six-miles. In the three, four runners--Smith, George have heen even better in the middle ·and long distances if the empha - ("the steeplechase is for peasants") Young, Tom Laris and Van Nel sis hadn't been on finishing in thctop two or three to make the nation son-- ran as a group almost the entire r.ice. Laris tried a kick with al team for the Russian and Polish dua I meets. a 220 to go but Young and Smith !X'Ssc..'<.1him easily coming out of tre In the 100, Charlie Greene had to use his "Super -Satellite . turn and staged a desparate struggle to the tape. Young got there Gear" (that's what he calls it) to overtake James Hines in the last 15 first by two fee t as both clocked 13:27.4, good time in the 87-degree yards. UCLA frosh Harold Busby was a close third a the first two muggy New York weather. were caught in 9 .4 into a slight wind. Greene skipped the 220, which Tow-headed Tracy came back the next day in somewhat coole looked like a good idea as Hines opened up a four-yard lead in the weather to win the six-mile big- -by exactly 220 yards from Billy Mil straight and held off Adolph Plummer's closing rush to win in 20.5, in 28:02.0. Smith broke away from Mills and Oscar Moore after thri Plummer getting the same time. Tom Jones finished third. The miles and kept widening his lead to the end. A notable fifth was ta lee time was called wind-aided, but Hines' coach, Stan Wright, felt an by Spokane high •schooler Rick Riley with a 29:11.4 effort. Another error might have been made in the wind reading, and if the decision former Spokane prep star, Gerry Lindgren, was withdrawn from the is reversed, Hines and Plummer will get a piece of the meet re,;:ord. race on doctor's orders with viral bronchitis. Of his 100 race, Greene said, ''With a heat, semi-final and a final all The steeplechase saw the culmination of a great comeback in one day, it seemed I was warming up every half hour or so." Mis year by 1963 champion Pat Traynor. Prevented by illness from doilv sing, of course, from both sprints was Tommie Smith, injured in his best in the 1964 AAU and Olympic trials, Traynor virtually quit the NCAA. in 1965. &it early this year he resume..-<.!his masochistic hobby. and The 440 figured to be a three man race, and it was most of the from the look s of it spent some time on hurdling practice, too. Tra: way. Lee Evans ran 46. 5 in his heat, then tied the meet record with nor stayed up close as Mike Manley set the early pace, rut fell back a 45. 8 semi that saw Ron Freeman II eliminated in 46 . 2 , Right be to third when Ray Barrus took over and started to push it. At the gu; hind Evans was Dave Crook with his second 45. 9 of the year, and re- Barrus led Manley by 15 yards and Traynor was another 15 in arrea1 ' covered from the virus that slowed him in the NCAA, Theron Lewis Traynor made it all up in the next 220, going on to win from Barrus l--" )won the other semi in 46.3 from easier opposition. In the final, Crook by more than 20 yards in 8:40. 6, best time by an American since "---'/ went out fairly fast, while Lewis keyed on Jim Kemp as he had in the 1964. Behind him, Barrus and Manley were rewarded for their pace NAIA. Lewis caught up to Crook at about the 220 and held the lead making efforts with 8:43.4 and 8:47 .6 respectively, and Bob Price su around the curve·and into the straight. Evans, who had planned to prised with an 8:53.6 for fourth. catch Lewis at the 330 mark, began his drive going into the turn and Both hurdles races were humdingers. Davenport opened up a seemed to be flying, but he was still some three yards back when they yard lead on Don Shy by the fourth barrier of the highs, and held two straightened out for home, So he just dug in harder and made up the feet of it to the tape for his collegiate record equalling 13 .3, with difference and more, winning by three yards in 45. 9. Lewis could Shy getting 13 .4 and Earl McCullouch 13. 7. NCAA champ Roo Cope find no answer as his shoulders tightened up, and he was almost nailed land ran 14.2 in his semi and was shut out. In the intennedfates, at the tape by the onrushing Bob Frey, with Crook fading to fifth behind Jim Mlller, who usually goes out .fast and then fades, went out fast Vince Matthews. Evans Is unbeaten in the quarter this year. and kept going. The result was his best ever , a sparkling 50 .1 and The 880 was exciting right from the start of the first heat, the title. Behind him, Geoff Vanderstock and Bob Steele finished we l which saw Tom Farrell and Ted Nelson run 1:47. 7 and 1:47 ,8 to eli to run 50.2 and 50.3 for second and third, while favored Ron Whitne · minate Dave Perry (1:48 . 2). Charlie Christmas (1:48 .4), Dave Fish closed fastest of all but couldn't make up enough of the yards he had · back (1:48. 7) and Ricky Urbina (1:48 .8). In other heats, non-quail· given away. fiers included Frank Tomeo (1:48 .5), Wade Bell (1:48 .9) and Jim All the jumps except the triple were closely contested. In tho Metcalf (1:48. 9). Strong men wept. In the final, George Hunt set a vault, Bob Seagren cleared 17'0 " on his final try to win from Paul Wi speedy pace, with John Perry right behind him and everyone else up son and John Pennel at 16'8". Only four others, Mel Hein, Dick Rai close. Hunt passed the quarter in 52 .1 and kept the lead as the others back,.Jeff Chase and Peter Chen, could clear 16-feet as a headwind jockeyed for position down the backstretch, Nelson moving up to third made the vaulting tricky.

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