· RACKNEWSL£TTE ,~: alsoKV1own as 1R~tlfN'1ts11:r1ER . ..- \.D (OrF\C\fl-l Pll9UC~i\ON QI= iRKI< NU'ISOi i11E ~~\.'D) \l~ll'-lc.) Vol. 8, No. 6 Nov. 1, 196 1 Semi -Monthly $6 per year by first class mail Edited by Hal Bateman Page ·41 Cross Country Preview European Adventure (continued) By Bud Edelen NEW YORK A.C. -- The Winged Foo _t club finished second (Ed. Note: Th e autho r, a Big Ten champion while competing in the National AAU meet last yea r but Coach Joe McCluskey says at the University of l\1innesota, ha s been living; working and com­ the team may skip the meet this year. On pap er, the NYAC pro s ­ peting in Europe for the past year.) pects look good. The number one man undoubt ~dly will be Peter Mc­ Ardle, fourth in the AAU me et last year. Those who are expe cted In 1960, like hundreds of other Ame rican tr ackme n, I want ed to back him up are Larry' Furnell, Bob Lowe, Pete Close, Ed Moran, only one thing -- to represenr the United States in the Olympic Walt Cooper, Ed Winrow and John Kopil. McClusk ey also hopes to Games. After gradu ati ng from the University of Minn eso ta, I decided, get Ron Delany out for the team. The team has many question marks on the advic e of my coach, Fred Wilt, to move to California dur- but if it comes anywhe re near its potential, the New York A. C. ing the spring and summer so as to be fully acclimated to the Cali­ will be very tough . fornia climate and environment. We also felt the experience of run­ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO TRACK CLUB -- A team that ning in all the big West Coast me ets would be of great benefit prior could surprise 'Houston, the New York A .C. and Southern Illinois to the 'Olympic Trials. at the AAU mee t is Coach Ted Haydon's club. Expected to run are Once in, California I joined the San Francisco Olympic Club Gar Williams, Phil Coleman, Hal Higdon, Harold Harris and Ken and began running in major competition every week. Prior to the Brown. Deacon Jones , now out of the army and living in Chicag o , Trials, I was running bette r than ever. I had r.un my fas test 5,000 dso is expect ed to compete. UCTC had anoth e r good man in Larr y meters and at an all-comers me et at Sunnyvale on May 5 I managed \veet but he was r ece ntly drafted. to win the 10,000 m eters and in the process broke th e Amer ican KANSAS -- The Jayhawk s of Coach Bill Easto n look very r ec or d. My time, 29:58.9, which later was broken by Max Truex, tough this year and Oklahoma State will have to be good to retain was at the time a great boost to my mora le. I cont inued to run hard its Big Eight title. Billy Mills has graduated but Bill Dotson is back each weekend and tried to get my weight down as low as possible so and has been filling in quite capably. Charles Hayward has been as to have proper heat elimination in the National AAU Champion- · the team's numb e r two man in ea rly meets . with Dan Ralston and ships at Bakersfield in June. Fr ed and I knew the weather would be Tonni Coan e not far behind. Kansas holds impr essive ear ly season very hot and we felt the lighter I could become without los ing wins over UCTC and Southern Illinoi s. strength, the bett er I would run. As it turned out, due either to HARVARD -The Ivy Le ague is well balanced thi s yea r a nd losing too much weight or from racing too much over 5,000 and one of the teams in the running for league honors is Harvard, which 10,000 meters, I ran very badly and in just 32 minut es my four­ will be paced by milers Mark Mullin, a s~nior, and Ed Hamlin, a year dream was shattered. junior. Coach Bill Mccurdy also is high on sophomo r e Ed Meehan As so many athletes know, it makes no differ enc e how well but the Crimson have little after that. you run prior to the Trials, if you ar e below par on thatimportant OKLAHOMA STATE -- Coac h Ralph Higgins says sophomores day you've had it. I was extremely despondent and undecided just will determine whether the Cowboys repeat as Big Eight champions. what to do. Fred had been writing me daily from his home in Indi ana Returning from last year are John Haraughty, Harold Smith, Ray for we ll over thr ee months and I feJt. I had let not only my self down Graham and Bill Stone with additional help coming from junior Dan - but him as well. Be had arranged for Ille to spend three months in ny Metcalf, the team's number one runner, and sophomores Ray­ Finland in 1959 to help me get more exper ience in distance running. mond Mitchell and Eddie Winn. OSU has looked solid in early It had been a great exper ience for me and now even this had seemed meets. ' in some respects wasted 'effort. Thes e were my feelings immediate- IOWA -- As usual, the Hawkey es will be in the thick of the ly after the T ria ls. · battle for the Big Ten title, but Coach Francis Cretzmeyer says the Fred.suggested then that I tr y to get back to Finland in hopes lack of a good fifth man will hurt. Th e top four men are Jim Tu c ker , of gett ing into a fast 10,000 met e rs race there and pe r haps being Gary Fischer, Ralph Trimbl e and sopho more Larr y Kramer. There pick e d for the U.S. team in !lie event th at one uf the distance run - is a big drop after that although Iowa has look ed good in early sea­ ne rs bec ame sick or for some oth er r eas on was unable to run in son meets. Rom e . I realized it was a very small chance but I decid ed to take AIR FORCE -- One of the top teams in the Rocky Mount ain it. I went to New York on what littl e money I had ieft and once area is the Falcons. However, on a national lev el the team can be th ere , with the help of a Finnish friend, ar ranged to work iny way rated as only fair to good. John Fer has looked good in early meets · to Finl and aboard a freigJ1ter. This was quite an experience to and he has been helped by Austin Wedemeyer and Dick Parker. The be r e membered. Although I had spe nt _three months m F inland the Falcons have one of the most attractive cross country schedules in summer before, my knowledge of this difficult language was limit­ the nation. They meet teams from as far East as Michigan Stat e and ·ed. But by use of sign language and so forth I was able to get along. from as far West as California and UCLA. If the job they assign ed me to do was too difficult or boring on any IDAHO -- A Mutt and Jeff team will lead the Vandals this particular day I mer ely pretended I didn't understand. season. Paul Henden ,. a 6 '5" freshman, and Dick Douglas, a 5 '9" Unfortunately the trip took longer than I had anticipated, wphomore, will be for the top position on the team although Dougla s and the amount of running I was able to do on that littl e 35 -yard '----' did not look very good in the te a m' s first meet. Th ere is a bi g battle stri p on the deck was limited, so that by the time I arr ive d in Fin - for team places after these two. land I was out of shape . To mak e matters worse, I found the ohly VANCOUVER OLYMPIC CLUB -- This Canadian team was 10, 000 aro und was in the Finnish Championships and being .a the power in the Pacific Northwest last year and they should repeat foreigner, I was unable to run in it. Nevertheless, I decided to (continued on page 44, column one) (continu ed on page 48, coh;mn one) champion John Gutknecht ran away from George Young to easily win the Virginia AAU cross country titl e in a meet and cours e record 20:00.2 for four mile s . Young finished second in 20:41, Australian Runners Prevail also under his old meet and cours e r ecord of 20:41. 5 set las t yea r. COLLEG E STATION, T EXAS, Oct. 14 - Australians took Dave Emer y of Quantico was third in 21:09 and Lew Stieglitz took the first six plac es as Houston easily won a quadr angu lar mee t on fourth in 21: 16. the Tex as A&M thr ee -mile course. Th e sc ores were: Houston 26, Texas A&M 50, Howard Payn e 69, A_qilene Christi an 78. Houston Houston Scores Double Win took th e first thre e places with Pat Clohe ssy clocking 14:29.8, Barrie Almond .