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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1961)
Bower man Supports Runners At Troublesome L.A. Meet By DICK LKUTZINGEll Emerald Contributor Dyrol Burleson Just came home from New Zealand and Bill Bow crrnan from Loh Angeles. Burly wears an car to car grin on hl« aun tanned face when he talks about hLs experiences in New Zealand with Olympic champions Murray Ualbcrg and Peter Snell and world record holder Roger Moena. Bowrmian though, wears no smile. He’s usually quite a reason able man, but sometimes if he doesn't gel his way, he loses his temper and becomes rather dif ficult to get along with. He didn't get along with the Southern Cal ifornia track meet promoters and hotel clerks last weekend, so he merely blew his stack. FRIDAY afternoon his contin gent of runners was scheduled to leave for the Southland to com pete In the Los Angeles Times In vitational meet at the L.A. Sports Arena Saturday night. They mis sed connections to one plane when another which they were on ar rived late in San Francisco. Then when they arrived at the Ambassador Hotel In Los Ang eles. where they were supposed to have reservations, the desk clerk told Bowcmmn: “I never heard of you." He sent them two blocks down the street to the Chancellor Hotel, where he pro mised to get them rooms. But the desk clerk there never had heard of Bowerman either, and wasn't even sure if he knew what the University of Oregon was, and csrtainly had no knowledge of why it had representatives In town. Athletes can be a temper mental bunch. For that matter, so can coaches, especially if they are named Bill Bowerman and It is^fottr o'clock* fn the morning. COACH Bowerman, momen tarily surpassing his anger, slowly explained that the Los Angeles Times, he had been led to believe, published a daily news pa[>er for the townspeople of L.A. With this the hotel clerk agreed. Then Mr. B. told him about the track meet. He said he had heard about that too. Soon he had Bowerman on the phone with a man on the sports desk at the Times office. The conversation went some thing like this: Bowerman: "Let me speak to Glenn Davis, please." Newsman: “He's not here now." Bowerman: “Give me a phone number where I can reach him.” Newsman: "He has an unlisted number and he's home in bed.” Bowerman: "Get me his phone number anyway, I’ll wake him up." Newsman: “Can't do It." Bowerman: “Yes you can. I'm down here with four athletes who BILL BOWERMAN, Oregon track coach, found organization for the indoor track meet in Angeles rather iinhosplta Me for hi«* runners. need some sleep before the meet tomorrow and we don’t have the rooms that were supposed to be reserved for us. I've got five : plane tickets. If Davis isn't in touch with me within five min- j utes, we’re turning around and i going back to Oregon." THE TICKET bit, admits Bow erman, was just a bluff. He knew there wasn't a plane leaving for several hours. But it got results.. Within five minutes, there was another conversation, this one be tween Bowennan and Davis. Davis: “What are you so mad. at me for?” Bowerman: "Because we're! your guests and you were suppos ed to get us a place to stay.” Davis: “Oh." Within another five minutes. Coach B. and his runhers were in bed. and soon thereafter, asleep. "A young person can usually go a night without much sleep,” j says Bowerman, - “but sometimes it can cause a psychological block." Apparently It did just this. Archi San Romani ran his: race as planned until the halfway : mark, but then "didn't have it” anymore. "It was probably partly a mental block,” explains Bow erman. "He really was tired, but the way he turned it on at the end to pass two men and almost catch another showed that he had strength he didn’t know about." OTIS DAVIS suffered too, pos sibly more so than the others. He had a cold when he arrived in town, and the lack of sleep the night before didn't help his condi tion. He stepped off the track after about 350 yards of the 500 yard race. “I just didn’t have any strength,” he said later. He was dead last when he withdrew. Roscoe Cook fared better than his mates. He won the 60 yard 1 dash, although his time was 6.1 j seconds, slightly slower than the fans had hoped for. Olympian Hayes Jones won the 60-yard high hurdles, with a dis appointed Jerry Tarr finishing third, 1/10 of a second behind. Tarr says the lack of sleep might have made the difference, but added "1 don't like to use it as an excuse." BURLY HAH been away from Eugene for three weeks. While he was gone, Bowerman got into another squabble, this one with two faculty members from the Speech and Drama Department. At lunch one day recently, they asked him why he allowed Burle son to leave school for three weeks during the middle of the term. Bowerman's theory on ed ucation is that travel is one of the best teachers. So, he asked them how the Speech and Drama Department could let a whole group of students travel to the South Pacific last year during the school year. Chalk up another point for Bowerman. No matter how much contro versy is raised, the trip was a great experience for Burly, and there is no question about the educational values of such a trip. WHILE HE was there he ran against the world's best competi tion in Halberg, Snell, Moens. Burleson did well in meeting the task of reaching a peak so early in the season, and getting accus tomed to running on a grass track, a new experience for him. He was undefeated in his first five races, having a best time of 4:01.2 in the mile and 1:50 flat in the half, the latter run during a driving rain. HOWEVER, before h i s last | race, the New Zealanders decided it was time for the young Am- J erican to lose a race, so a £400 , prize (about $8001 was offered 1 to the track club of the man who could beat him. Burly was un aware of the plot. Not only did he have this against him, but the local marathon champion invited him for a run the day before the race, an opportunity which Burly jumped at. The marathon is 26 miles long. Later he realized what had happened, but he was not bit ter when he was beaten the next day. Bowerman was not upset either: "He’ll probably profit from the experience.” Order of the 0 The Order of the O will have its weekly meeting and lunch at the Sigma Nu fraternity Wed nesday. Use Emerald Classified Ada— Phone DI 2-1411, Ext. 618. <jCet 3 £lut Out Ooniaht! ^ I Have dinner at Seymour's Cafe— the student choice for 30 years. We serve a special steak dinner with tossed salad and baked potato at $2.25. Served in main dining room and the glamorous Riviera Room. Minors served food in Riviera Room till 9:30 p.m. New York Commission Gives Archie the Word The. New York State Athletic Commission has given an either or else ultimatum to aging light heavyweight Archie Moore. Either Moore defends what’s left of his light-heavyweight title ] or the title will be vacated. The New York Commission doesn’t care v/ho Moore meets, just as' long as he arranges a defense. It mentioned Doug Jones of New York or some other suitable con tender. The National Boxing Associa tion lifted Moore’s crown last year for the same reason—fail ure to defend. It recognizes Har old Johnson of Philadelphia aa light-heavyweight champion. Moore tried to arrange a de fense against Erich Schoeppner of Germany but Schoeppner and New York promoters can’t agree on the purse. Arrangements for a London ti tle fight between lightweight champion Joe Brown and Dave Chamley were completed today when Chamley agreed to a re turn fight clause. 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So why don’t you settle back soon and enjoy Marlboro, the filtered cigarette with the unfiltered taste. EASTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY The annual meeting of the American Philological Institute, held last week at Eastern Reserve University, was enlivened by the reading of two divergent monographs concerning the origins of early Gothic “runes,” as letters of primitive alphabets are called. Dr. Tristram Lathrop Spleen, famed far and wide as the dis coverer of the High German Consonant Shift, read a paper in which he traced the origins of the Old Wendislurune “pt” (pronounced “krahtz”) to the middle Iettic rune “gr” (pro nounced “albert”). On the other hand. Dr. Richard Cummer bund Twonkey, who, as the whole world knows, translated “The Pajama Game” into Middle High Bactrian, contended in his jxiper that the Old Wendish rune “pt” derives from the Low Erse rune “mf” (pronounced “gr”). 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