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77-73 Margin
Fast Trojans
Defeat Ducks
By DICK STRITE
RrglsterGuard Sports Editor
Southern California's hot-shooting Trojans, with tremendous
team speed, burst Oregon's basketball bubblo here Saturday night
before the largest crowd in McArthur Court this season. USC
handed the Webfoots a 77-73 defeat, the first loss on the home
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PENNY GETS THE BAD NEWS An anguished expression crosses the face of Pen
ny Pitou Saturday as she hears the announcer tell the crowd at the finish line that
Heidi Biebl of Germany has just finished the downhill race one second faster than
Penny's time. That gave Heidi the gold medal and left Penny with the silver one.
GERMAN GIRL WINS DOWNHILL Heidi Biebl of Germany zooms down the ladies
downhill course on KT22 Saturday on her way to victory in the Winter Olympics
event. She was timed in 1:37.6 for the mile and eighth course.
LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER
SECTION B EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1960
Axemen Keep Marshfield Whips
Hopes Mve; WiUHilinchesTitle
5844 Victors
District 5-A-l W L Pet. Vr PA
Marahfield 11 1 .917 ' 7B4 591
Springfield ..8 4 .667 695 601
South Eugene II 4 .667 619 591
Boseburg 8 4 .667 698 687
North Bend . 6 6 .500 648 607
North Eugene- 3 9 .250 591 634
Willamette 3 9 .250 582 749
Cottage Grove 1 11 .0B3 638 849
SATURDAY RESULTS
Marshfield 89, Willamette 48
South Eugene 58, North Bend 44
Springfield 75, Cottage Grove 46
Roscburg 83, North Eugene 47
By BOB MUIXIN
Of the Register-Guard (
Hank Kuchera's South Eugene
Axemen basketballcrs broke up a
tight-checking North Bend de
fense midway in the first quarter
and ran their way to a S8-44 Dis
trict 5-A-l victory at SEHS Sat
urday night.
It was South's eighth victory in
12 loop starts and brightened its
hopes for a state tournament
berth at McArthur Court in
March. The Axemen remain dead
locked with Springfield and Rose
burg, both also winning Satur
day night.
The loss for North Bend elim
inated it from the tourney pic
ture. Wayne Fox's Bulldogs are
now 6-6 with two games left.
Sandy Nosier and Don DuShane
shared South's scoring honors
with 15 points but it was a fine
team effort that paid off for
victory. Only a 20-point fourth
quarter by the Bulldogs, after
they had made only six field
goals and 24 points in the first
three periods, kept the South
margin from being greater.
It took- 2:04 of the game for
anyone to score. A hooker by
North Bend's Mike Paine shoved
the visitors momentarily in front.
After two free throws by South's
Nick Carter tied the score, the
Bulldogs led at 4-2 and 5-4 before
Bo Blair's jump shot with 2:37
left in the first period put the
Axemen in front for good.
Before the period ended, Dave
Tobey scored on a layin, Nosier
hit a jump shot and DuShane
scored on a free throw to give
the home team and 11-7 first pe
riod advantage.
Three points by Nosier at the
outset of the second period
pushed South ahead 14-7, before
Paine tallied four points and Dave
Dick added two to cut the margin
to one point, 14-13.
Nosler's jumper moments later
Gave South two clutch points
however, and by halftime it was
2515.
South Eugene's fast break in
the third quarter was too much
for the North Benders to handle
and the score grew to 41-24 at
the end of the stanza.
North Bend had its best luck
in the fourth quarter against the
Axemen reserves but never
threatened.
North Brnd (44) SEHS (58)
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3 9-11 15 Nosier Q 3-3 15
Marshfield clinched a berth in
the 1960 state basketball tourna
ment at Willamette Saturday
night by thumping the Wolver
ines 85-48 in a District 5-A-l bas
ketball game.
Led by Mel Counts 35
points, the visiting Pirates raised
their league record to 11-1 with
only two games remaining and no
other team in the circuit able to
reach them in the chase for the
5-A-l title.
Marshfield jumped to an 18-7
first quarter lead, increased this
margin to 37-20 and boasted a
63-29 margin at the start of the
final period.
Counts hit nine of his points
in the first period, 12 in the
second and 11 in the third. He
scored 4 points in the fourth be
fore leaving the game with half
of the period remaining.
Ron Buck was leading scorer
for Willamette with 23 points. He
scored all three of Wil-Hi's first
Pavne
Dick 1 2-5
Johns 3 3-4
Allen 1 5-5
Leinlngr 0 5-7
Graham 0 0-9
Gould 0 0-0
Kersey 0 0-0
Yungrar 0 0-0
8 Blair
( Tobey
7 DuShan
S Carter
0 Guske
Jost
0 Fluke
0 Myera
Dune
Rbnstn
Brook
1-1
0-0
5-6 15
2-1
1-4
0- 0
1- 1
0-0
1 0-1
0 1-3
0 04 0
Total! 1 14-1S 44 Totall 11 16-24 58
North Bend 7 S 9 2044
SEHS It 14 IS 17-58
JV Gaum- SKHS S3, No. Bena U
TtTtuion (S) 17, caibo lb
half field goals. Marshfield hit
.482 during the first half to Wil
lamette's .136 mark. .
Marshfield's tight defense kept
tne wolves irom getting in close
and forced the host crew to shoot
from the outside.
Karl Coke was runnerup to
Counts in the Marshfield scoring
with 19 points.
Marshfield (83) Willamette (48)
fg ft tp fg ft tp
UOUntS 13 9-11 35 Buck 5 13-15 23
Coke 8 -3-4 19 Haas 2 2 2 6
4 McNght 0 3-5 3
5 Dugger 2 2-2 6
1 Gilbert 0 5-6 5
4 Jensen 0 1-2 1
4 Wllkrsn 1 2-3 4
4
Reichert 2 0-0
Buries 2 1-3
Hughes 0 1-2
Harris 2 0-0
Weakly 2 0-0
McGrlff 2 00
Hndrksn 1 2-2
Larsen 1 O-O
Starnes 1 0-0
Smith 0 1-1
Totals 34 17-23 85 Totall 10 28-35 48
Marshfield 18 19 28 2285
Willamette 7 11 9 1948
JV Game: Marshfield 66. Willamette
32.
HIGHCLIMBER
-By DICK STRITE-
k Pardon our spikes!
"I've never seen anyone write so much stuff about track,
especially during the football and basketball season," one
reader mentions. "You're getting as bad about track as The
Oregonian's L. H. Gregory about baseball."
Well, when you're in Rome and wouldn't we like to be
there next summer. We'd
even agree to act like a
Roman.
Although the University
of Oregon is only two seasons
past playing football in the
Rose Bowl, track-and-field at
Oregon has steadily grown in
stature for a number of rea
sons good home-grown tal
ent, spectator interest, fine
facilities for the fans, and a
number of local potential
U.S. Olympic squad members.
During this "Olympic
Year" track interest here is
even greater, even without
the Hayward Field schedule
calling for 10 events, starting
with the Northern Division
Relays April 2 and ending
with the Pre-OIympic train
ing meet (tentative) in late
July. It will feature 70 mem
bers of the U.S. men's track
squad who will vie in Rome
and attempt to return to the
United States with more gold medals than the Russians will
take home to Moscow.
The Pacific coast will be in the spotlight with three im
portant meets in California the NCAA championships at
Berkeley June 17-18, the National AAU at Bakersfield July 24
25, and he final Olympic trials at Stanford University July 1-2.
. . . Then, of course, comes the National Decathlon on Hayward
Field July 8-9.
Oregon's entries in the NCAA will probably depend on per
formances in the Northern Division championships here May
21. Almost certain to be at Berkeley will be Roscoe Cook in
the 100 and possibly 200 meters, Sig Ohlcmann in the 400 and
800 meters, Dyrol Burleson and George Larso in the . 1,500
meters, Dick Miller in the 5,000 meters or 3,000-meter steeple
chase. Potentials are Paul Bernick and Dee Mills in the javelin,
Gene Estes and Jerry Stubblefield in the discus, and Phil Pac
quin in the pole vault.
if What about Otis Davis, who had the best collegiate
quarter (46.2) last season? Well, the toothpick-chewing
Davis may have been foaled op in his transfer from Lot An
HIGHCLIMBER ' (Continued on Pajf 2B) V
BILL BOWERMAN
Featured in SI
U.S. Women
Skiers Upset
In Downhill
SQUAW VALLEY, Calif. Ml
The Germans pulled off two up
sets and the Americans took a
surprising tumble in the Winter
Olympics Saturday as Russia built
up a substantial lead in overall
scoring.
The combined team from East
and West Germany scored unex
pected successes in the women's
downhill ski race and the wom
en's 500-meter speed skating. The
Germans upset Russia in the for
mer and the United States in the
latter.
But both the Soviets and the
Americans found consolation in
other events.
The Russians swept the first
four places in the women's 10-
kilometer (6.2 mile) cross-country
ski race. Carol Heiss of Ozone,
Park, N.Y., gave America a solid
lead in women s figure, skating.
East and West Germany, divided
their conquests. Heidi Biebl, an
18-year-old skner from the West,
won the downhill race in 1:37.6
beating glamor girl Penny Pitou
of Gilford, N.H., by a full second,
In women's speed skating an
event the Russians were expected
to dominate Mrs. Helga Haase
of East Berlin took the gold medal
with an astonishing time of 45.9.
This was nine-tenths of a second
faster than she had skated before
and was only three-tenths off the
world record. Natalija Donchenko
of Russia was second in 46 flat
and, in something of a surprise,
Jeannie Ashworth of Wilmington,
Mass., finished third in 46.1.
In the cross-country ski race,
Marija Gusakova, a 29-year-old
dressmaker from Leningrad, led
the Russian sweep. Her time was
39:46. There wire no U.S. entries
in the event.
With five events completed,
the Russians were leading in un
official scoring with 38V4 points
figuring 10 points for a first
place finish and 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1
for the next five. Germany was
second with 28 points. Sweden
had 19, Canada and the United
States 13 each, Italy 5, Austria 4,
Finland and Japan 2 each, and
Poland .
Saturday's crowd was estimat
ed by Olympic officials at 32,000,
It was the first turnout of the
games that approached earlier
crowd forecasts of 35,000.
The weather was near perfect
sunny and not too cold.
Miss Pitou was not the only
American disappointment in the
downhill ski race. Her roommate,
Betsy Snite of Norwich, Vt.
also regarded as one of the
world's top women skiers fell
and was helped off the course,
She was not hurt.
Miss Heiss had an aggregate
of 262.8 points after two com
pulsory figures were completed
in the women's figure skating
event. Her arch rival, Sjoukje
Dijkstra of Holland was in second
place by virtue of her ordinal
placings. She had a total of 32.0
and 244.5 points, which put her
ahead of Barbara Roles of Tem
ple City, Calif., who had 26.5
ordinals and 246.5 points. This
event will end Tuesday with the
free style skating.
Causes 14 Spills
Skiers Come to Grief
On : ' Airplane Turn
By JERRY UHRIIAMMER
Or the Register-Guard
VALLEY, Calif. , Penny said she caught an edge
of her ski on this turn and al
most fell. "But it was the Olym
pics and I decided I d have to
stand up," she added. The 5-5Vi,
135-pound blonde said she be
lieved she lost at least one second
during this momentary trouble.
But this same "airplane turn'
spelled more than momentary
trouble for 14 of the 42 women
skiers who started the race. These
skiers including three of the
SQUAW
That airplane, turn was the
toughest part of the course. That
is whore I lost all my speed
and lost the. race." ,
Speaking was 21-ycar-old Penny
Pitou, America's blonde 1 rocket
who won. a second-place silver
medal Saturday in the ladies'
downhill race at the VIII Winter
Olympic Games here.
Penny whizzed down the high
speed trail from the peak of KT-
22 mountain in one minute, 38
and six-tenths seconds to win the
silver medal the first time an
American woman alpine skier has
won a medal since the 1952 Olym
pics.
But exactly one second ifastcr
was Heidi Biebl, a 5-foot, 3-inch
brown-haired mite from Oberstau-
fen, Germany, who celebrated her
19th birthday Wednesday and to
her went the coveted gold medal,
Penny , was obviously disap
pointed but tried to appear
happy as she talked to friends
and newsmen about the airplane
turn a sharp 90-dcgrce curve.
at the lower end of the trail. It
was the third from the last turn
before the girl racers crossed the
electric eye finish line.
court this season after 10 straight wins.
A "Dad's Weekend" crowd of 6,248 shook the rafters of the
Igloo dome as coach Steve Belko's Oregons battled back repeatedly
and with less than seven minutes remaining had a 58-57 lead.
Oregon, one of the top defensive teams in the land, was unabla
to detend against a .491 UaU
shooting percentage and the out
side scoring of Jerry Pimm, a 5-11
senior. He collected 23 points and
hit 9 for 16. Most of his fielders
were from behind the key, near
the sidelines or the corners.
While Belko is still looking for
his first win over his old Idaho
coach, Forrest Twogood, the loss
Saturday night does not eliminate
Oregon from a possible first-
round at-largc berth in the Far
West Rcgionals.
Oregon State s 65-52 loss to
Washington at Corvallis Saturday
night kept the books open and the
final series between the two cross
valley foes will be for the blue
chips.
The first OSC-Orcgon game will
be at Corvallis March 4, and a re
turn meeting will be at McArthur
Court the next night. In the
meantime Oregon must meet and
beat Idaho's Vandals here next
Saturday night.
Saturday s game might not have
produced the best basketball of
the year, but it was in that classi
fication and by far and away
the toughest test the Webfoots
have faced.
NO BOYS ALLOWED
It was no game for the weak-
at-heart. It was a contest between
matured collegiate basketball
men and no boys allowed.
USC, with four seniors in the
starting lineup, had all the ex
pcrienced Trojans could handle
and Oregon's sophomores
played with the poise of veterans.
There was no reason for any Web
foot to hang his head In shame
It was a terrific tilt.
Oregon could not afford to
make many mistakes against a
team that holds the only victory
Huskies Trim
Oregon State
By62-52Tally
CORVALLIS, Ore. Wt The Unl-
versity of Washington led handily
all the way here Saturday night
in taking a 62-52 basketball win
over Oregon State College.
OSC lost the game at the free
throw line, scoring two more
field goals than did the Huskies,
but making only 10 and 26 free
throw attempts. Washington made
24 of 33.
Midway through the second
half, Oregon State pulled to with
in four points of Washington,
only to see Clint Names score sev
en straight points for the Huskies
in two minutes. That gave Wash
ington a lead it held easily all
the rest of the way.
Three Washington players
fouled out in the rough and
loosely played contest. They were
AI Murphy, Lyle Bakken and
John Douglas.
Names was high for the game
with 16 points, 14 of them in the
second half. Jay Carty led OSC
with 12.
Washington had an edge in
shooting, making 19 of 44 field
goal attempts. Oregon State
made 21 of 60.
The victory brought Washing
ton up to 12-12 for the season.
OSC is 13-9.
first seeded racers and three out
of the four U.S.A. competitors over California's NCAA champ!
were unable to hold the giant ons this season and the Web-1
turn and crashed. foots were guilty of losing the
One of these was blonde Betsy baU on Dad Passes or violations
Snite from Norwich, Vt., who
with Penny, Linda Meyers of
Mammoth Lakes, Calif., and Joan
Hannah of Franconia, N. H., made
up, one of the strongest and most
powerful female contingents ever
to race under U. S. colors in the
Winter Olympics.
Betsy explained later that al
though she was only the sixth
racer down the course it had
already become slightly rutted.
"I got on the wrong ski, bounced
' SHARP TURN
(Continued on Page 3B)
Millers Post 75-46
Win Over C. Grove
By JIM CROWELL
. KeglsterGuard Correspondent
Bill O'Neal's Springfield Mill
ers kept pace with South Eugene
and Roseburg in the scrambled
District 5-A-l race, posting an
easy 7546 win over the Cottage
Grove Lions at Springfield Sat
urday night.
O'Neil, . substituting by pla
toons, twos, threes and singles,
saw his club simply outman the
Lions in a ragged contest that
saw a total of 47 fouls called, 29
of them on Springfield.
The Lions, who were badly
beaten on the boards, simply were
not in the game after ' the first
quarter. Leading only by two,
10-8, Springfield s second string
pushed out to a 14-8 first period
lead. Then, with the help of the
first unit who reentered the game
midway in the second quarter,
the Millers full-court pressed
their way to a 33-23 halftime
margin.
But it was a big third quarter,
a 27 pointer, that really put the
game on ice for Springfield.
Stocky Steve Clark got things go
ing with a jumper then 64 Jack
Matthews started on his 10 point
third, period scoring spree.
Cottage Grove collected only 1Z
field goals against the pressing
Miller defense and managed but
22 out of 41 free chances. Bill
Roe was the only Lion offensive
threat, getting 16 points, eight on
free throws, for high point honors.
Springfield was led in its bal
anced scoring by Matthews who
had 14. Mike McMahon and Clark
followed with 11 and 10 respec
tively. Center Jerry Shepard
trailed Roe in the Lion scoring
column with 11.
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Shoberg 1 2-4 4 Matthe 9
Gibson 0 2-3 2 Karp
Shepard 4 3-8 11 Willis
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0- 1
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Totals 12 22-41 48
Cottase Grova ...
Springfield 14 1 27 1878
Totals 29 17-28 75
8 15 11 1246
only four times to 14 by USC.
The Trojans and Webfoots
shifted two-point advantages fre
quently in the first five minutes
USC then went on a hot shooting
streak and scored 12 points in
less than three minutes while the
Webfoots went scoreless. Oregon
missed three good scoring chanc
es while the Trojans moved from
a two-point deficit to a 10-polnt
lead; 24-14 with 9:22 showing on
the first-half clock. Until that
point USC had hit .455 from the
field
Chuck Rask and Denny Strick
land rallied the Oregons and
closed the margin to three points
on two occasions. USC bounced
back for a seven-point margin,
but then Glenn Moore connected
for five points and Rask two and
shaved USC's lead to 35-34 with
less than three minutes remain
ing in the half.
39-34 HALFTIME
Jim White hit one of two free-
throws and Jerry Pimm was
awarded a field goal on an Ore
gon goal-tending violation to give
the Trojans a 39-34 halftime advantage.
USCs first-half shooting per
centage was .424 and Oregon was
a miserly .276.
Rask, on a high pass from
Glenn Moore on a low-post play,
scored in the opening 23 seconds
of the second half. After a
momentary 41-40 lead, the Ore
gons gave way to Pimm's scoring
for a five-point USC advantage.
Oregon battled back again. Dale
Herron took a low bounce pass
from Rask and scored to put Ore
gon in front 53-52 with 10:56
showing on the clock. The Web
foots moved three points ahead,
but Pimm, on the second Oregon
goal-tending violation of the
night, was awarded two points
and a 57-56 USC lead
Wally Knccht, playing the post
with Moore at a forward for the
first time this season, connected
with two frccthrows to put Ore
TROJANS
(Continued on Page 3B)
Washington (62) FG
Murpny 3
Nlva 4
Hanson . 2
Names 7
Bakken 2
Grant 0
Rclten 0
Douglaa . 1
Danlela 0 ,
FT
2-4
4-5
7-11
2-3
2-2
6-7
0-1
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0-0
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5 8
12
11
16
6
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0
3
0
Total! 19 24-34 21 62
Oregon State (52) FO
Nllos 1
Carty 4
Anderson . ... 4
Wold 1
Woodland 3
Jacobaon 1
Patterson 2
Stafford 0
Flynn 0
Crltchflcld 2
Campbell . 1
Johnson 0
FT
0-1
4-8
2-3
0- 1
1- 4
0- 2
1- 3
2- 5
0-1
0-0
0-0
0-0
PF TP
2 4
12
10
4
7
2
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2
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4
2
0
Total! 21, 10-26 25 51
Washington
,23 37 62
Oregon Stat. 20 32 82'
North Downed
By Roseburg
ROSEBURG Roseburg's In
dians kept pace with South Eu
gene and Springfield In the rel
hot race for District 5-A-l's sec
ond state tournament berth here
Saturday night by handing North
Eugene an 83-47 defeat
Roseburg, South and Spring
field are now 8-4 in district play,
three games behind leading
Marshfield.
Mel Kranse's Highlanders made
it close in the first half, but the
home team, hitting .500 of its
shots, couldn't be stopped.
Roseburg guards Jim Jarvis
and Lynn Baxter scored 21 and
16 points respectively, while Bob
by Bruns led the losers with 11.
NEHS (47)
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Hlatt 1
Krani 1
Bruns S
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Garner
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0 2-2
1 1-3
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Roseburg (S3)
tp fg ft
7 Roberta 2 0-0
Palm 2 1-1
Mundt 4 5-5
Baxter 5 6-8
Jarvis 10 1-1
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Rrundge 4 0-0
French 2 24
Miller 0 1-5
Withnll 0 0-0
Totala 17 13-20 47 Totals 32 1947 83
NEHS 13 13 7 1247
Rosehurg 21 18 16 3083
JV Game: North Eugene 51, Rose
burg 34.
Oscar Held to 14
But Cincy Victor
HOUSTON (AV- Oscar Robert
son was held to 14 points Satur
day night but Paul Hogue, 6-9
sophomore, came through with a
surprising 22 points to lead Cin
cinnati, the nation's No. 1 team,
to a 5747 Missouri Valley Con
ference victory over Houston.
Hockey
New York 3, Montreal 1
Detroit 4, Boston 1
Toronto 3, Chicago X
Pro Basketball
Syracuse 126, New York 121
Cincinnati 110, Detroit 107
Philadelphia 122, Minneapolis 101
St. Louis 11, Boston 105
Thomas Clears 7-2
Dellinger's Mark Falls
New AAU Indoor Records Set
NEW YORK W John Thomas,,
Boston University's fabulous
sophomore, gmashed his own
world high jump record Saturday
night when he cleared 7 feet 2
inches in the National AAU in
door track and field champion
ships. A Madison Square Garden
crowd of 13,567 let out an ear
splitting roar when Thomas soar
ed over the crossbar breaking his
three-week old mark of 7-1 Va.
But he wasn't the entire show
this time. He had to share the
spotlight with three other rec
ord breakers.
1. Little Al Lawrence who
chopped the world indoor three
mile record down to 13:26.4.
2. Bo Roberson, who erased the
oldest mark on the books with a
25-9V4 broad jump. -
3. Hal Connolly, a 28-year-old
school teacher from Santa Monica,
Calif., who broke another "im
possible" barrier when he got
off a mighty heave of 71 feet 2V4
inches in the 35-pound weight
throw,
Thomas had not been prac
ticing much all week and his
coach, Ed Flanagan, didn't ex
pect him to do anything sensa
tional. But he went over 7 feet
on his first attempt like he was
stepping over a pebble.
Lawrence, who attends the
University of Houston, but is an
Australian and will run for the
Aussies in the Olympics, went
around and around the Madison
Square Garden saucer first lap
ping one opponent, then another.
He made the circuit 33 times
and when it was all over he had
cut a fantastic 10.6 seconds off
the world record of 13.37 set by
Bill Dellinger of Oregon In this
same meet last year. t
Only a week ago, Lawrence
gave some indication of his ulti
mate aim when he was clocked
in 13:38, just a second over Del
linger's mark.
Lawrence hit the mile in 4:26
and the two miles in 8:57.1. Lew
Stieglitz of the U. S. Navy was
second in 13:58.8. Alex Brccken
ridge of the Marines was third.
Roberson smashed Jesse Owens'
quarter century-old world indoor
broad jump record of 25-9. It was
set In this same meet on Feb. 23,
1935 and has withstood the chal
lenger of the years until now.
But Roberson, an ex-Cornell
football player and now officer at
Fort Lee, Va., has a long way to
go before he can challenge Owens'
outdoor record of 26-8V also set
in 1935.
Bo made his record-breaking
jump on his first try in the final
round. Three of .his jumps were
over 25 feet. Mike Herman of the
NYAC was third at 24-8ft behind
Ralph Boston of Tennessee Ail,
Connolly, the Olympic hammer
throw champion competing for
the Southern California Striders,
set his record on his second try
in the qualifying round. The listed
world record of 66-2 set in this
meet last year by Bob Backus of
the NYAC. Backus was second
this year at 62-8.
Hayes Jones of Eastern Michi
gan barely edged Olympic cham
pion Lee Calhoun of Gary, Ind.,
to win the 60-yard high hurdles
in 7.1. Jones was oft like a flash
and barely managed to hold off
the onrushlng Calhoun.
Parry O'Brien of Los Angeles,
who holds every shotput record in
the books, captured his specialty
with a heave of 61 feet, 8 inches
RECORDS
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