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Page 8 Portland Observer, September 8, 1982 Oregon International draws champions Eugene, Ore.— American track and field tans may be treated to a number o f rare performances at the Oregon International Meet at Hay ward fie ld Sept. 25. A star-studded field o f athletes is capable o f pro ducing the best marks ever seen in the United States. Although injury has forced Steve Ovett to withdraw from the her alded mile, world-record holder Sebastian Coe w ill be on hand. Recent races have demonstrated that he’s near the level which brought forth his record o f 3:47.33 last year. W ith the likes o f Tom Byers and Thomas Wessinghage in the field, the race seems a sure bet to be the fastest ever run in this coun try. Jim Ryun’s then-world record of 3:51.1, set in 1967, still stands as the fastest run on U.S. soil. Byers, fresh from his Fifth Avenue Mile road win over Steve Scott, John Walker and Sydney Maree, recently clocked 3:50.84 for the mile. Byers hopes to become the third American to dip under 3:50. Wessinghage, o f West Germany, has run 3:50.19 this summer. Kenya’ s Peter Koech and Univer sity o f Oregon's Bill McChesney w ill meet in the 5,000. Koech is third on the all-time world list at 13:09.50 and McChesney turned in a 13:14.80 last month despite get'ing knocked o ff the track in the final lap. The Eugene runner is taking aim at a sub-,3:10 clocking which would eclipse former UO teammate Alber to Salazar's American record o f 13:11.93 and threaten Henry Rono’ s U.S. all-comers’ mark o f 13:08.4, a former w orld record. Should McChesney set the American rec ord. he’ d be the third Oregon ath lete to do so this year. M att Centro witz held the record briefly, running 13:12.91 in Eugene’ s Prefontaine Classic last June. The 5,000 field al so includes Julian Goater who has clocked a 27:34.58 at 10,000 this year. Paul Cummings (13:19.61 this season), Doug Padilla (13:20.55), Don Clary, Todd Harbour and John Tracy, the two-time world cross-country champion. Pro football in New York experienced a kind of renaissance lest season as the Jets got their act together after opening the seeson with three losses. This season they are chasing the Super Bowl. M eantim e, the Giants suddenly got tough and stunned Philadelphia in the playoffs. New York fans must be looking forw ard to the fall season. W orld leaders in the throwing events w ill threaten a number o f rec ords. Bob Roggy has been on a roll this summer, raising the American jave lin record to 314-3, just 3’ I ” shy o f Ferenc Paragi’ s world mark o f two years ago. Roggy launched a field record o f 302-5 on his last visit to Eugene and w ill be after Paragi’s mark in this meet. Oregon’ s preco cious Brian Crouser, the 1982 N C A A champion as a freshman, is in the field, w ith his best o f 282-11, along with a pair who've bettered 290 feet, Rod Ewaliko and Tom Petranoff. Dave Laut, who just equalled Brian O ldfield’ s American record o f 72-3 in the shot, w ill take aim at Udo Beyer’s world record o f 72-8, set four years ago. The discus field includes four throwers who’ ve bettered 223 feet this season, w ith A rt Burns current ly second on the ’ 82 world list at 229-6. He’ ll be up against the man who’s thrown the discus the fa r thest, Ben Plucknett (237-4 PR; 224- 9 season best), as well as Mac W il kins, the former world-record hold er (223-9 this season), Ken Stadel (223-2) and John Powell (224-2). I t ’ s particularly fitting that we’ ll have such an outstanding group of throwers because most o f the pro ceeds from this meet w ill go directly towards resurfacing the runways at Hayward Field,” said meet director Gary Trigueiro o f the Oregon Track Club. The 12-event meet also includes the 800 with James Robinson and David Mack, the hammer throw w ith Ed Burke and John M cArdle, the 100 and 200 with Mel Lattany and Jeff Phillips, the pole vault with Steve Smith, the women’ s javelin with Karin Smith and the women’ s 800 with Chris Mullen. The meet be gins at 1 p.m. "O u r fields are not completely filled yet,” said Trigueiro. “ We’ll be in contact with some o f the top performers in the European Champ ionships this week in Athens and should have more announcements next week.” Tickets have been going fast for the Oregon International. Some 6,300 reserved seats had been sold by Sept. 3 with 2,900 remaining. 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