TRACKNEWSLETTER SupplementingTRACK & FIELD NEWS Volume 12, No. IS November 11, 1965 Page 88 Ovanesyan 26'10"; 2 . Barkovsky 25'6"; 3. Klimov 25'4". 400R, Clarke Tags Two More Records Leningrad 39.4 (Blinov, Ozolin, Savcbuk, Politiko}. 400, Arkbipcbuk Geelong, Australia, Oct. 2 --R on Clarke, battling against 45.6; 2. Sverbetov 46.7 . 200, Tuyakov 20.6; 2. Politiko 20.7; 3. cold, damp weather and his t>wn tight legs, covered 20, 000 - meters Ozolin 20. ;. 4 . Savchuk 21. 0. 400IH, Anisimov 49. 5 (USSR record; in 59: 22. 8 to break the previous record set by Bill Bailli e of neigh­ best in world in '65); 2. Zageris 50.5; 3 . Kuklich 51.3; 4. Kovalev boring New Zea land at 59:2 . 6. He continued running to complete 51. HJ, Khmarsky 6'11f'· 2. Martynov and Moroz 6'10¾''. OT, 12 miles, 1006 yards in one - hour, eclipsing the mark also establish­ Trusenyov 1 '4½"; 2. Jaras 186'4"; 3. Kovtun 1 5'6". Dec, Dyach­ ed by Baillie at 12 mil es, 960 yards . Baillie set both records at kov 7519; 2. Starodubtse v 7415 ; 3 . Palu 7383; 4. Ovseyenko 7359; Auckland, Aug. 24, 1963. 5. Fontalis 7319; 6. Smirnov 7229. 5000, Ivanov 13:53 . 6; 2. Bolot­ In setting the records, Cla rke claimed his sixth and seventh nikov 13:5 .0; 3. Orentas 13:58. ; 4. Khlystov 14:00.0; 5. Baidyu.k world records (either best-pending or ratified) and now holds every­ 14:03. ; 6 . Yefimov 14:04 .2 . 200LH, Skomorokhov 22.8 (USSR re­ thing from three-miles through the one- hour run including the three­ cord equalled); 2. Anisimov 22.9; 3. Mikhailov 23 . 1; 4. Kazakov mile (12:52.4), 5000-meters (13:25.), six-miles (26:47.0), 10,000- 23 .4. TJ, Lazarenko 53'6½ "; 2 . Zolotaryev 52 '11½"; 3 . Fyedoseyev meters (28:39.4), 10- miles (47:12 . ), 20, 000-meters and one - hour 52'9½"; 4 . Alyabyev 52'7 ¼". JT, Lusis 262'11"; 2. Paarna 254'7 ' . run. (The weather was relatively cool; site is three-quarters of a mile "I thought the records were out of the question, " Clarke re­ above sea level . ) vealed after the race on a grass track. " My muscles began to tighten. PEKING , CHINA, Oct. 17--HJ, i 7'4¼ " (only Brurnel has jumped However, the encouragement the crowd gave me enabled me to forget higher). 100m, Chen 10 .1. my legs . The damp, cold conditions probably caused the trouble." OSQUE, FRA CE, Oct. 17--2000, Jazy 5:10.0. Clarke consistently turned in lap times of between 6 and 70 FORT DE FRANCE, HJ, Sainte-Rose 6'10¾ " . seconds for the first six-mile". He ran alone for most of the race. MELBOUR1 E, Oct. 23--HJ, Peckham and Sneazwell 7'2". (Ac­ cording to Franz Starnpfl, Sneazwell went over with at least 3 inches to spare.) SYD EY, Oct. 23--200, Lay 21.4 (may be professional rugby National News player }. CH GKING, CH A, Oct. 24--Chen 10.0 (equals world record, ALL COMERS, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 4--SP, Puce first Asian to tie a global mark; ran 10 .1 heat; virtually no wind.) (Can) 59 '9¼" . ALL COMERS, Toronto, July 18--HT, Puce 176 INDOOR, PARIS, ov. 2--1000, Jazv (Fr) 2:21.8. 'sf". INTERNATIO AL INDOOR, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Oct. 22--PV, ALL COMERS, Toronto, Aug. --OT, Puce 193 '7 ". 2 Pennel (US) 16'5"; 2. Seagren (US) 16' 5" (lifetime best; cleared DEVELOPME T MEET, Washington, DC, Oct. 10--JT, White (Md) 240 '½"; 2. Dull 238'0". 16'8¾'' only to have pole go under bar to spoil indoor best-ever). ALL -AROUND WEIGHT THROW, Oct, 10 --T homson YAC) TURIN , ITALY, JT, Radman 254 '7½"; 2. Rodegbiero 253'7~ '. 4317; 2. Meade (Manhattan) 4074; 3. Wallin En) 4065 ; 4. Cyprus Dec, Sar 736 (NYAC) 3426; 5. Wolfe (Indian TC) 2925. SP, Wallin 56'11 " . HT, PRAGUE, OT, Danek 207'4 " . HJ, Baudis 6'11½°'. Thompson 182'4 "; 2. K.ilgallen ( YAC) 175'6"; 3. Meade 166'9"; 4. BUE OS AIRES, ARGENT A, Oct. 30--lO0rn, Randolph Cyprus 166'6 " . OT, K.iwitt (92nd YMHA) 194'2". 56 lb Wt, Thom­ (US) 10. 3; 2. Moreno (Chile) 10. 3. son 40 '7½" . SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, HJ, Scbillkowski 6'10¼ " . HT, SOITTHERN FEDERATIO , Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 30--100, Beyer 216 '10 " . 200, Schwartz ( Ger) 21. 2; 2. Drayton Freeman (Murray St) 9.8. 880, Kemp (Ky St) 1:55.4. HH, Pom­ (US) 21. 7. PV, hite· (US) 15 'l¼°' . pbrey (Tenn) 14.6. PV, Owens (Tenn Fr) 15'1¾' ' . SP, Woods (So Ill) 58'5 ". OT, Morton (Fla TC) 168'4½ ". US Supreme in Intermediate Hurdles Foreign News by Jack Barlow (reprinted from Athletics Weekly) MEXICA INTER ATIO AL GAMES, Mexico City, Oct. 15-16-­ One of the most imposing displays of national prowess in mod­ l00m, Piquemal (Fr) 10.3; 2. Figuerola (Cuba} 10.3 ; 3. Gonzales em Olympic competition has been America's string of six successive (Mex} 10.4; 4. Schwartz (W Ger} 10.4. 200, Schwartz (W Ger} 20.9; victories (including two clean sweeps of all medals) in the 400m hur­ 2. Piquemal (Fr} 21. 2; J. Delecour (Fr) 21. 3. 400, Badenski (Pol} dles stretching from the great Glenn Hardin's triwnph at Berlin in 46. 2; 2. Tellez (Cuba} 46. 8; 3. Sam per (Fr} 46. 9. 800, Kemper 1936 to the runaway win of their current champion, Rex Cawley, in (W Ger) 1:50. 7; 2 . Bianchi (It) 1:51.4. 1500, Tummler (W Ger} Tokyo last year . On each occasion except, oddly enough, at Berlin 3:54 .4; 2. icolas (Fr} 3:54.9 ; 3. Baran (Pol) nt. 5000, Gamoudi in 1936, the highest placed foreign rival has been beaten by an ex­ (Tun) 14:40. 6; 2. Clarke (Aus) 14:41. 8; 3. Tyurin (USSR} 14:45. 6; ceptionally large margin. In 1948 that copy -book stylist, Roy Coch­ 4. Martinez (Mex) nt; 5. Mills (US) 15:10.2. 10,000, Gamoudi (Tun) ran, sailed serenly through the tape 0 . 7sec ahead of runner-up Dun - 31:27.8 ; 2. Haase (E Ger}31:38.2. HH, John (W Ger} 13.9; 2. Ottoz can Wbite of Ceylon. Glenn Davis twice finished 0.6sec ahead of the (It} 14.3; 3. Frinolli (It} 14.7. 400IH, Frinolli (It} 51.0; 2. Medina closest non -Americans in his consecutive brilliant victories in el - (Mex) 52. 8; 3. Poirier (Fr) 53. 8. 3000St, Persson (Swe) 9:32. 0; 2. bourne (1956) and Rome (1960) while botfl Cmrles oore at Helsinki Vargas (Mex) 9:47.0. HJ, Schillko wski (W Ger) 7'¼". LJ, Stenius in 1952 and Cawley at Tokyo md a full hall-second to spare. (Fin) 26'3¾"; 2. Yamada (Jap) 25'7½ " . TJ, Sauer (W Ger) 50'9". OT, Each of these men possessed that indispensable requisite of Begier (Pol) 188'1½ " . HT, Beyer (W Ger) · 218'5 " . any crack hurdler--exceptional speed on the flat. All, in fact, were USSR CHAMPIO SHIPS, Alma Ata, Oct. 14-17--100, Politiko world class quarter-milers during their careers: Hardin, oore and 10.2 (10.2 sf}; 2. Tuyakov 10.3 (10.2 sf}; 3. Ozolin 10.3. HHrn, Davis each being a ational Collegiate 440 title winner, Davis actual - Mikhailov 13.8; 2. Skomorokbov 14.0; 2. Chistyakov 14,1. SP, ly becoming the only man in history to hold both the 440 flat and the Karase v 62'3¼ "; 2, Gushcbin 59'11¾' '; 3. Georgiyev 59 ' 10½"; 4. 400m hurdles world records simultaneously. To fill in the picture Lipsnis 58'9¼ " . HT, Kondrashov 224'5 "; 2. Klim 220 '2½"; 3. Baltov­ completely, here is a comparison of their best ever flat and hurdles sky 218 '10"; 4. Zakbarov 213'4 "; 5. Komissar 211'5"; 6. Rudenkov times, adjusted where necessary, over 400m: 210 '10½" . 10,000, Ivanov 28:53.8; 2. Baidyuk 28:58.0; 3. Bolotnikov 400m 400mH Differential 29:06.4; 4. Bezdelov 29:10.6; 5. Dutov 29:11.6; 6. Yefimov 29:11.8. Hardin 46.5* 50.6 4 .1 1500, Raiko 3:44.3. 3000St, Kudinsky 8:41.4 ; 2. Aleksejunas 8:44.6; Cochran 46.7 51 .1 4.4 3. Morozov 8:45.6. PV, Bliznyetsov 16 '5 "; 2. Feld 16'1" . LJ, Ter Moore 46.7* 50.7 4.0 Page 34 November 11, 1965 at the US Olympic Trials in Los Angeles with the first ever sub-50sec Davis 45.4* 49.2 3.8 mark and went on to uphold America's winning tradition vith a 50 .1 Cawley 45.7* 49.1 3.4 Olympic victory in elboume. Althrugh 30-years or more have passed since Hardin's heyday Davis reached the peak of his athletic life in 195 with a dis­ in the mid-thirties it is a measure of his greatness tflat his perfor­ play of superb form which enabled him to establish new world records mances, even today, command respect from the true track follower. of 45.7 for 400, 49.2 for 400m hurdles and 49 .9 for 440 hurdles and No intermediate hurdler since has ever advanced so far ahead of all one cannot but reflect upon what the track fans of Hardin's day would his rivals as did this Lo · <,iana State University star when he set that have thought of the following details of his most outstanding perform - classic world 400m hurdles record of .50 .6 in Stockholm on July 26, ances that season: 1934, for it gave him a huge 1.1 sec.