the, , athlethic, , , department, . 2114^ Addison Street^ ^ "Oregon Waffle" Olympic + PHOTO QUIZ * RULES: (1) Submit your guess (one per person) on a post­ Sports card and mail it to: PHOTO QUIZ, P.O. Box 1551, San Mateo, CA 94401. (2) Card must be postmarked by no ALVARO M EJIA & later than Jan. 31. TERR) ST ICKLES M EJIA (3) Ties broken by a drawing. The prize is a 1-year sub. or renewal to the NCRR (or $5 off dues of WVTC members). All readers are encour­ WHO IS THIS LOCAL aged to send in pho­ ROAD RUNNER? tos for consider- tion. Last Month's Answer: The 1964 Olympian was 10,000 meter winner Billy Mills. A total of 29 correct answers were sub­ mitted (no incorrect ones) and the win­ ner of a one-year subscription by draw­ ing is Ed Collins of Beale AFB, CA. On the C o v er Rich Kimball, a senior at Concord's De- LaSalle High School, blitzed to a Ca­ lifornia State record for 3 miles on the track with a 13:43.6 effort in a U.S. postal meet at San Jose State on December 1. He broke Terry Williams' 1972 record by some 10 seconds and re­ corded the 8th fastest time ever by a U.S. prep, moving into 6th spot on the all-time performer list. S t a f f CONTENTS EDITOR: Jack Leydig CIRCULATION MGR.: Pave Shrock PUBLISHER: Frank Cunningham ADVERTISING MGR.: Bill Clark Photo Quiz 2 West Valley Portrait 11 CARTOONIST: Lee Holley STAFF PH0TOG.: John Marconi This & That 3 Special Article 11 NCRR LDR Point Ratings 7 Scheduling 14 STAFF WRITERS: Jon Hendershott, Clark, John Marconi, Club News 7 Race Walking News 15 Art Dudley, Jack Leydig. Classified Ads 9 Cross Country Results 16 Letters to the Editor 9 Cross Country Pictorial 17 PRODUCTION & MAILING: Harold DeMoss, Bill Clark, Ellen Coach's Corner 10 Road Race Results 23 Clark, Jack Leydig, Pave Shr ock, Mike Duncan, Dave Stock, NorCal Portrait 10 Late News 26 Bruce Orr, John Tengelsen. TH !S & THAT CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: Mike Shaaghnessy, Dave Stock, Wayne Glusker, Jay Marlowe, George Beinhorn. 'People News: Sacramento's crack master's runner, Jim O'Neil, has been sidelined indefinitely with a t o m cartilage NCRR LDR POINT-RACE EDITORS: Art Dudley (NorCal), Stan Ro- in his knee. The doctors say that he may never be able to run senfield (SoCal). again, but we know Jim better than that....Humberto Hernandez, one of West Valley TC's active cross country runners this fall, REGULAR CORRESPONDENTS: (NorCal) - Roxy Andersen, Fred has moved to Yuba City and is getting tired of training alone. Baer, Dawn Bressie, PA. Harmon Brown, Marshall Clark, Dave Anyone in the area who would like a training partner, please Colburn, Bob DeCelle, Ruth Dettering, Roger Duran, Dick contact Humberto at 674-5343....Bill Frank, who attended high Gilchrist, Wayne Glusker , Frank Hagerty, Jon Hendershott, school at Travis AFB (Vanden HS) about 4 years ago, is captain John Hill, Lurana Hoetger , Jim Hume, Chris Kinder , Roy of the U.S. Air Force Academy cross country team....Eileen Wa­ Kis s i n, Steve Land, Joe Langan, Jay Marlowe, Dick Meyer , ters , who recently set a new world record for women in the 50 Mar k Payne, Rich Perry, Bob Rush, Mike Shaughnessy, John mile run, reportedly ran nearly seven minutes faster than any Sheehan, Emmett Smith, Wal t Stack, Pave Stock, Joe Tax- other finisher over the closing 15 miles, and her final mile iera, Bob Vincent. (SoCal ) - Wes Alderson, John Brennand, was 6:46, also topping the field....Ex-San Jose Stater, Maury Bill Cockerham, Tom Cory, Kaj Johansen, George Ker , David Greer, is now living in the southland and coaching at North view Pain, Stan Rosenfield, Tom Sturak. (Natl. & Internat'l) - High School in Covina. He inherited a program that had won on­ Long Distance Log, Runner's World, Starting Line, Track & ly two meets in four years, and they went 4-4 this past season. Field News, Track Newsletter , Women's *"Track & Field World. Not bad for the first year....John Butterfield sends his re­ gards to all his Northern California friends, along with the Subscriptions rest of his running family. John is now stationed in Iran with the U.S. Navy and has just started up a group called the "Iran MAILING: Third-class bulk rate from San Mateo, California Roadrunners". Their first race drew 75 runners (Nov. 16)!.... at intervals of from 5-7 weeks. No issue should require Dr. John Pagliano, the southern California podiatrist (foot longer than two weeks delivery in the U.S. First class & specialist) who likes to run ultra-marathons, has moved from airmail rates available. NCRR is not forwardable...send his old office into a new one at 4301 Atlantic Ave., Suite 6, us any change of address as soon as possible. Long Beach, CA 90807 (Ph. 213/426-0376). His office will now specialize in athletic injuries of the foot and lower extremi­ RATES: $5.00 for 12 mailings, 3rd class bulk rate. Mul­ ty, mainly with distance runners....Jon Anderson, 1973 Boston tiple year subscriptions: $9.25/24 issues; $12.75/36 is­ Marathon winner who made his home in the Bay Area for several sues; $20.00/60 issues. Add $2.50/year for 1st class in years, is now back in his hometown, Eugene, Oregon, and running U.S., Canada, & Mexico. Add $3.50/year for airmail in well. He competed in the Fukuoka (Japan) Marathon in early U.S. & Canada. Add $1.00/year for 3rd class to Canada. December and took a good 4th place in a PR of 2:15:52.8. Frank Add $1.25/year for 3rd class to all other foreign coun­ Shorter won in 2:11:45 (4th best performance ever by an Ameri­ tries. Foreign airmail rates available on request. Spe­ can) . cial rates for schools, libraries, and news media: $3.00 'All-American Selections: The following Californians made for 12 issues in the U.S. the grade as 1973 All-Americans in men's long distance running and race walking: [Men's LDR) - 15 Kilos (Chuck Smead/Santa BACK ISSUES: Single copies are available for 70$ each by Barbara AA); One-Hour Run (Dave White/BHS); Marathon (Doug 3rd class mail...50$ each (60$ for quarterly pictorials) Schmenk/East LA TC). (Race Walking) - 20 Kilos (Bill Ranney/ when purchased at races, etc. Unat.), (Bob Kitchen/Unat.); 35 Kilos (Bill Ranney); 50 Kilos (Dr. William Weigle/Colorado TC). Men's Track & Field All- Contributors American selections were not available at this printing, and they will be printed in a later issue. In Women's Track & All news, features, results, photographs, and other correspondence Field & Cross Country, the following were selected to All-Amer- should be sent to: NCRR, P.O. Box 1551, San can status: (Women's T&F) - 100y (Martha Watson/LATC); 220y Mateo, CA 94401 (Ph. 415/342-3181). Due to irregularity (Mabel Fergerson/West Coast Jets), (Jackie Thompson/Missiles); of publication dates, all information should be mailed as soon as possible for consideration. Prospective vol­ unteer correspondents and photographers should request PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR NEW ADDRESS!:: details from the above address. Everyone is encouraged to submit meet results. Credits are always given for ^ S i nce the NCRR is mai l ed 3Ad Cla s s any material used. Please request permission for use of Bulk Rate, your is s u e not be f o r - NCRR materials other than meet results. Thank you. warded to a naw addr e s s i f y ou move. Don't miss an i s s u e ...k e e p u s i n f o r med: - 3 - 440y (Kathy Hammond/Sac'to RR); 880y (Mary Decker/Blue Angels); 'Leigh High School of San Jose has registered perhaps the Mile (Francie Larrieu/San Jose Cindergals), (Eileen Claugus/ most impressive dual meet record in cross country in the his­ Mill's Spikettes); 2 Mile (Eileen Claugus/WS), (Tina Anex/WS); tory of the sport. If anyone can site a better record, please 100mHH (Debbie Lansky/SLOTC); 400mIH (Clydine Crowder/La Mirada contact us. In the past 4 years, Leigh has swept their league Meteors); LJ (Martha Watson/LATC), (Jane Frederick/Univ. of Co­ (West Valley AL) in all 4 divisions, with the exception of var­ lorado) ; DT (Monette Drisco11/LATC), (Vivian Turner/LATC); JT sity in 1970 and 1971 when they took second to Camden (both by (Kathy Schmidt/South Coast TC), (Lynn Cannon/Sac'to RR); HJ scores of 1 point). Their record (all divisions) is 142-2 in (Deanne Wilson/South Coast TC); SP (Marien Seidller/Mayor Daley the last 4 years, being 72-0 in the last two. Two years ago, YF), (Jan Svendsen/SLOTC); 880yMR (West Coast Jets); Mile Relay Jack Bellah won the league in 13:10 on the same course, and (Mickey's Missiles); 2 Mile Relay (San Jose Cindergals— Haughey/ Matt Sommer (see West Valley Portrait for this issue) was the Eberly, Poor, Larrieu); Pentathlon (Jane Frederick/Univ. of Co­ only other runner under 14 minutes. This year there were 15 lorado). (Cross Country) - Francie Larrieu (SJCG), Valerie Eb­ runners under that mark, with four of them being in the JV erly (SJCG), Mary Decker (BATC), Nadia Garcia (SDTC). race! — Another bit of news from Leigh HS: -this track sea­ 'Apology— Our last issue had Joe Taxiera listed as finish­ son, the school is getting a 4:14 miler who is a transfer from ing in 29th place at the Lake Merritt 10 Kilo Run.