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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1978)
sports Hayward field gets set with a brand new look By MARK STEWART Of the Emerald Wednesday afternoon a crew of workmen was busily pouring con crete onto the base of the Hay ward Field time clock tower, which will soon be the home of the newly donated $80,000 scoreboard. Another crew was digging a new runway for the javelin and still another was pouring a yellow goo onto parts of the track to fill in spots that are severely worn. All this is part of an $86,000 track resurfacing and renovation project that will make Hayward the best track facility in the world, as sistant coach Frank Morris said. Bar none. As far as viewing a track meet, and the intimacy between the ath letes and crowd, this will be the best track facility in the world," Morris said of the soon-to-be completed renovation. "Others like Montreal and Munich have great stadiums." But Hayward Field has intimacy, something the large, 80,000 seat stadiums sorely lack. The resurfacing project money was raised primarily by jog-a thons the University held the past two years. How soon the project will be completed will depend on the weather, which will allow the track to be touched up, a new surface applied and drying time before painting. The resurfacing will go some thing like this: first, deeply worn areas will be filled in, then a 3/16 inch deep layer of liquid poly urethane will be poured onto the present surface. Before the sur face dries, a chemically treated sand will be blown onto the track, and after the excess sand is swept away, lanes and start-finish lines and such will be painted. The sand will give the track a non-skid sur face. In addition to the track resurfac ing, a new discus ring was instal led, which Morris calls the fastest in the world; new surfaces for the pole vault, long and triple jump approaches to improve traction; and new approaches for the jave lin and high jump. The javelin approach will be angled from the southeast to the northwest corner of the field, which will allow the javelin throw ers to throw into the wind instead of into a cross wind as the present south-north configuration now re quires. A new 120-degree high jump approach will be built where the present javelin runway is, and will be totally surfaced. Presently high jumpers have to begin their approach to the bar on grass. By separating the high jump and javelin approaches, Morris said the events could be run simul taneously accordinq to meet rules. Photo by Steve Schneider Despite the rain, the resurfacing of Hayward Field is continuing It could be the difference in get ting the AAU meet in 1979 or the Olympic Trials in 1980, Morris said. But there is some opposi tion to us having the trials for a third time in a row. But no one else can guarantee the Olympic com mittee a well-run 10 day meet that will net the committee $300,000 ” The hammer will also be thrown in the infield from the shot put ring with the addition of a new portable screen for the hammer throw ring and a beefed-up infield. Morris said the resurfaced track and new scoreboard, which is the best on the continent besides the one in Montreal’s Olympic stadium, will help the University s efforts to attract big meets in the future. Oregon scores four early to beat O.CE. 7-2 MONMOUTH — Oregon put together a couple of two-run in nings early on and held Oregon College of Education scoreless in the final eight innings for a 7-2 win here Wednesday. Steve Elam had a three-for-five afternoon with two doubles and two RBIs in the game that gave freshman Dean Kegler his eighth win against three losses. The Ducks scored two runs in the first inning when with two out Tom Dodd singled and took third on a double by Ron Sloy. Elam then singled to left to drive the pair home. Oregon added two more in the third on a throwing error by Wol verine leftfielder Doug Lulay. The Ducks picked up single runs in the fourth, sixth and seventh innings for the seven runs on twelve hits. Oregon, now 22-19 overall this season, travels to Corvallis this Friday to face Oregon State in Northern Division action. Glenn Fisher is scheduled to start for the Ducks. Oregon 202 101 100 — 7 12 0 OCE 200 000 000 — 2 10 5 Kegler. Jordan (5).Ke*ey(8)andTaMer WMkinson (9) Sinuch and Beta W — Kegler (8-3) L — Stmich SALE 209E off on baskets and 209E to 509? on pure cotton shirts, skirts, and tops for men and women. Ana In IMPORTS FROM INDIA 1038 Willamette Street 687-9766 Oregon Daily Emerald Seattle beats Nuggets, Sixers stay alive From Associated Press reports Fred Brown popped in 11 points and John Johnson added 10 in the final period, leading the Seattle SuperSonics to a 105-91 victory Wednesday night in Seattle over the Denver Nuggets and a 2-1 lead in their National Basketball Association semifinal playoff series. The Nuggets, who trailed by 13 points early in the third period, closed to 77-74 at the end of the period on a Mack Calvin jumper. Johnson rammed home a 10-footer and Brown followed with a long jumper for a seven-point Seattle lead Bobby Wilkerson and rookie Anthony Roberts followed with baskets for Denver to pull the Nuggets within three points with 8:36 remaining They never got closer down the stretch In Philadelphia. Julius Erving and Doug Collins scored 24 points each and Caldwell Jones shut off Elvin Hayes as the Philadelphia 76ers smashed the Washington Bullets 107-94. The 76ers took an early 9-1 lead and never trailed as they used a devastating fastbreak and a tough defense to stop the Bullets before a sellout crowd of 18,276. The 7-fooM Jones held Hayes, who had averaged 26.3 points through the first four games, to just 12 points. In addition to his scoring, Erving put the lid on Washington s forward Bob Dan dndge. who had scored at a 24.3 clip in the first four games. Dan dndge got only 12. &<*&***** t!^ . oe^ W°5. o^. ,o» e° c°° y>e v's ^’i-v ,a0D W<ee\0\\'"^3° Page 9 Section A
