SupplementingTRACK & FIELDNEWS twice monthly. •a'.•· • 5j1oi-.-s, No. 4 Sept. 26, 1962· ·sehind the Record Breaking Morale Equals 400 Hurdle Mark By Don Pierce BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA, Sept. 16 -- Italy's Salvatore . University of Kansas Sports Publicity Director Morale took the individual spotlight at the seventh European ChamPlOOi.f:­ ships with his world record equaling 49.2 for the 400 hurdles as the I~ (Reprinted from the United Aircraft Quarterly Bee-Hive.) team honors went to Russia with seven gold medals. - · Morale, 23, tied the mark set by American Glenn Davis in· .·/?··· Placing a limit on man's ultimate achievements in athletics, 1958 after posting a. 50. 0 in his semi-final. The top-ranked inter­ \'.\ especially track and field, has been fashionable over the last 30 years . mediate hurdler in the world last year, Morale won easily as runner.;: -~ <.Over the same span one set of standards after another has been ex­ up Jorg Neumaim of Germany posted a 50.3, two-tenths ahead of <;\ ·;:r-:p1odedto expose statistics and theories as fallacies. countryman He,lmut Janz. Neumann, only 21, went into the meet with• 0 "' :\ · · > On August 5, 1934, at Oslo, Norway, Jack Torrance, a 310- a best of 50.9 but improved to 50.6 in his semi-final and 50.3 in the ;·, ?:~powidbehemoth from .eouisiana State, lifted the 16-pound shot 57'1", final . He ran 53. 0 last year. ... · · •··..-·:·a, blast which was scarcely less sturming than the cannonade at Fort Russia picked up its firsts in the 10,000, high hurdles, brOa.d~i -·:'"Sumter. jump, high jump, discus throw, javelin and decathlon. The top mafrf; · -, That was still the global standard when World War II ended. the Russians was world 10, 000 record holder Pyotr Bolotnikov, who.. i~obody even was approaching it. Coaches and athletes began thinking took the 10,000 in 28:54. 0 after a 58 .6 last lap. He then tried to do• n9bo(ly could do it unless they were as big as the old leviathan of the back in the 5, 00~ but was forced to run 13:53.4 in his qualifying heat: . .:Bayous. You couldn't be any bigger and confine your action to the seven - and placed only third in the final as Bruce Tulloh won with a 1:59.8 ,;,: 1'oot circle . final 800 and a 57. 6 last 400. ~":t'" On the morning of April 20, 1948, before a handful of spec- Most of the Russians won easily. Anatoliy Mikhailov cloc~~.- . t:ators lounging about to watch the preliminaries of the Kansas Relays, 13. 8 in the highs, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan broad jumped 26'10½fl, Vale· Charles Fonville, a 190-pound Negro from Michigan, fired 58 '¼", Brumel high jumped 7'3ff, Vladimir Trusenyov threw the discus 18-'lt fricturmgTorrance 's ancient mark by almost a foot. and Janis Lusis threw the javelin 269'2". Most of these wins were. '~~ Fonville's historic parabola on the Kansas plains would not expected but Trusenyov was not expected to win so easily. His main:~}; 'have earned him a trip to Rome two summers ago. Stanford's Jerry challenger and the defending champion, Edmund Piatkowski of Polantl;t\ Winters was no better than fifth in the Final Olympic Trials with a placed a disappointing fourth. Although Ter-Ovanesyan won by mote', 59 'll;tl' effort. Four others were over 61 feet . a foot a new broad jump star was unveiled in 19-year-old Rainer This is but one sample of the unrelenting assault on track .Stenius of Finland, who leaped 25'9" in second place. He jumped and field barriers . The unattainable heights have been swept into 24 '6" last year. limbo. So has the next impossible barrier and the next. A Russian who had a hard time winning was Vasily Kuznyet· The champions are the greatest in history . And the mass of sov in the decathlon. He was only sixth after the first day with .heirs -apparent is crowding up behind them, thicker and better than 4,161 points with two Germans, Willi Holdorf and Werner von _ ever rushing to scale new pinnacles and crowd the monarchs off their Moltke, leading the field with 4,370 and 4,335 points, respectively~-"' thrones. On the second day the battle was between von Moltke and Kuznyet- .. · -- · What has brought a,bout this maelstrom? How can it be main- sov and after eight events the German held a 336-point bulge over, ,· tained and where will it stop? the Russian. However, Kuznyetsov trimmed 291 points off of this Nobody is attempting to answer the latter question anymore. when he threw the javelin 223 '4" while von Moltke managed only A pa.netof 15 collegiate track coaches, representing each section of 184 '3½". Kuznyetsov then won the title for the third straight time . _,. --the country, were queried on the first two. Specifically they were when he ran 4:41. 0 in the 1500 meters as von Moltke clocked a 4:46.~ 'asked about weight training, design and manufacture of equipment, Von Moltke scored only 6,977 points last year but had scored 7,715. · modern athletic physique, specialization in one sport, and improve­ points earlier in the season. nients in teclmique . Hungary's Gyula Zsivotzky improved on his ijuropean hammer There is general, though not unanimous, agreement on the throw record for the second time this season when h_ewon easily at , fact that each one of these categories has helped to bring about, and 228'5½". He had set the previous record of 228'3½" only a few days maintain,' the fantastic track and field pace of today . bef cre the meet . However, three members of this cinder judiciary, cite Besides Kuznyetsov other 1958 champions who successf~y i.· ,. additional factors, or overlapping factors, which they deem more, defended their titles were Ter-Ovanesyan, Jozef Schmidt in the t~iPle'::·,, or at least as important as those upon which they were queried. jump and Germany in the 400 relay. Otherwise defending champions · :. -~ Stanford's Payton Jordan puts it concisely with this thought fared poorly. Manfred Germar was eliminated in the 200 semi-finals,._' > 0 ••• Because of emphasis and dedicated training, plus refinements Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak, winner of the 5,000 and 10,000 in the 1958:. / - meoachingand equipment we have shown most of our improvement." meet, tried the steeplechase this time but was eliminated in the . · · "1f I had to list in qrder the reasons for our great improve­ heats. Also eliminated in his heat was defending steeplechase champ··_ ment,fl says Michigan's Don Canham, "I'd have to do it this way: 1. Jerzy Chromik. Tadeusz Rut of Poland was eighth in the hammer . :&~~ter interest - - Thousands of new athletes and coaches of track. final and another Pole, Janusz Sidloi was seventh in the javelin final .•·•~ 'lllecream comes to the top. 2. More coaches - - Thus better ones . Two of the winners tried for world records but failed . Pentt:h · .f. :Improved techniques -- The latest practices now are spread from Nikula maintained Finland's domination of the pole vault when he ·:J~Qlllltryto cotmtry in a short time -- a. weight training; b. interval cleared 15'3". He then made 15'9" on his third attempt but was 1.m."'\:­ ..)i~inilg; c. new event techniques. 4. Greater capacity for work -­ successful at the world record height of 16'3". Russia's Valeriy ::Ji\licyQne realizes the body can do much more wo_rkthan·ever was Brumel made 7'3" on his first attempt but couldn't make 7'61". .~med of in the 1930's. 5. Refinement of the J1uman race -- Taller, l00m, Piquemal (France) 10.4; 2. D~lecour (France) 10_.4;-3. -•ffl:(Jnger,.etc . '' :::':- Colgate's Jack Warner adds this thought, "I am also certain ~ra:)fo~~~~~o~:·(~o~n~)e~1:1;~Germany) 10.4; 5. Juskowiak {~'~,:'- paychol-ogy has played a major role in this mass improvement. 200, Jonsson (Sweden) 20. 7; Z. Foik 20.8; 3. Ottolina (Italy) 20\8~ · ·":i"~•, ..· 11eeBannister's- breaking the four-minute mile. He showed it ;, ......s,Ju.unanly possible and the mass flow began. 400,4.•. D.·eleco.Brightwell.(G.S,45.9;ur. 2__ 1. O.>.;;_,...p .·. ·Da. _v•i·d·2. _J.onesKinder (GB}_-- (Ger)_21. 46.1;O; .6 .. Sc·h·um·.3. Reskeann___ . -. (Ger)46.4;~,~•;:;•1,;:;;, p• .e_r_·_. ➔ 2__.1. •._-_2: __.·.··•,:.~'.-.·_:_·_ .•'.·~.•:: .•,·-.·_· __:_r_·_.. _:... '_;•~-~.:.:,.g:c_~.-.·_--' ~~~ }' "An·increase in a more scientific approach has. helped and 4. Metcalfe· (GB)46A; 5; Jackson (GB) 46.4; 6. Badensld (Polf17.4(" ·;.;~ ·.·,,~be--•~ best means to funher improvement in the future. More 800, Matuschewski (Ger) 1:-50.5; 2. Bul~shev (USSR) 1:51.2; ~- Scli:tniiit,~ - ,l~ued onpage 27, columntwo) . (continued on page 2&~ column one} · Jonsson in the 200, 21. 0 to 21.1. Ulis Willia]J).S won the 400 and Jim Dupree took the 800 in 1: 52. 6. Ralph Boston was a "" ,;:\; '. 0 EUROPEAN CHAMPS (continued from page 25) winner, taking the 110 hurdles in 14. 2, equal his best of the t:::~;·· (Ger) 1:51.2; 4. Salonen (Finland) 1:51.2; 5. :McCleane (Ireland) and winning the broadjump at 24'9¾''. Harald Norpoth, C.:P,.. ..,,..,,:inu'c, 1:51.2; 6. Krivosheyev (USSR) 1:51.5. 20-year-old middle distance ~an, tangled with sub four-minute 1500, Jazy (France) 3:40. 9; 2. Baran (Poland) 3:42 .1; 3. Salinger milers , Bill Dotson and Keith Forman, in the 1500 and the German (Czech) 3:42.2; 4.