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WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 14, I960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. 0 No Tearing Down Walls After Olympic Victories Of 1960; Davis Seeks Job r- j : i i ... (Edilor'i Nnt : w.:i.. Bill Bowerman had trouble getting into th. Olympic Village and talking to hit . athletes. Monday four let ler were received at Eu gene from the University of Oregon mentor, indica tion that postal service had been bad. All the informa tion has been wrapped up in one story through the editorial efforts of Dick Strife, sports editor of the Eugene Register - Guard. Bowerman will be asked to do a special story when he returns home.) By Bill Bowerman Oregon Track Coach Rome In the first Olympic liames m 756 B.C., you recall the winner of the race was a youth from the village of Elas .Coreubus was hoisted on the shoulders of his village folk, carried across the plain of Olympus and at the village the wall was torn down to carry in this hero. There will be no tearing down of walls in 1960. Herb Kllintt n .500- f - V fl meter winner) fcj ,JL i i I goes to Eng. M, mmJ JK4 land to study i''fV at Cambridge. I J Don Bragg J i -W 1 (gold - medal W . winner in the 4, , J Pole vault) re- 13111 Uowerman turns to Fort Meade, Md., where the com manding officer prefers that his walls remain intact and that Bragg either vault them or swing over via grape vines. Otis Davis (400-meter win ner and anchor of the win ning 1,600-meter relay team, both in world record times) will eventually return to Eu gene job hunting. Otis pre pared himself as a teacher and dedicated his summer to preparation for the Olympics and to represent his country which he did so well. Davis Fine Teacher Now he needs a job. I hope he gets one in Oregon, either in Eugene or Portland, or some other city in the state. Presently he will be making the Scandinavian tour follow ing meets in Greece and Lon don, Then he returns. He is a marvelous teacher, as all of the youngsters who were un der him in practice teaching will attest. In the modern tradition it has been customary to laud our champions, but by the same token the hero accepts his honors with humility and as a responsibility rather than a license and he is the one who grows in stature through out the years. I am sorry I was unable to do the kind of job for your readers I hoped to accomplish, but the problems were just too much for me, I guess. Get ting into the Village was next to impossible. It took me from as little as 30 minutes to as much as three hours, and the issuing of passes to the visit ors' gate was red tape of the highest order. I know that Pincus Sober (manager of the U.S. men's track squad) re ceived your (Dick Strite) wire asking for credentials, but he referred me to Art Lenz (pub lic relations director) and I was never able to run him down. Had it not been for the efforts of the U.S. athletes and the people from New Zealand, there would have been at least five of the eight days that I would not have been admitted to the area where the boys lived. I like to think the boys appreciated my advice and fellowship. In (act, they ana tne otner u.a team members were most gracious in their appreciation, Had Otis Davis followed the instructions of his coaeh, he would have been second in the Rome Olympics. We visit ed briefly two hours before the 400-meter finals and I told "Oat" that a 21.6 would get him a 45-flat. A 21.6 being the first 220 and a 45-flat would have gotten him sec ond. The field was off very fast and Davis, in this third lane, appeared to be slightly be hind Singh of India and Spence of South Africa. Kauf mann of Germany was even with Davis. Time for Otis at the 220 was 21.5. In the mid dle of the turn Otis made his move, but with him was Kauf mann and they both swung by Spence and with the rest of the field only a stride be hind. , At 100 yards it appeared as though Davis would be in, as he opened daylight on Kauf mann. At 50 Kaufmann surg ed and was ahead of Davis by a chest and on they came. At the tape Davis finished smoothly and Kaufmann dove to try to hold off the final lift that Otis had dug up from somewhere. Daviei Leaps High Five minutes, ten minutes and then one of the officials walked over to Davis and he leaped 17 feet in the air (after all he came to Oregon as a basketball player with back board ability, and for that reason I urged him to try high jumping on my track squad). It was obivous that an Oregon man had won a gold medal for the U.S. Age, experience, mental preparedness, physical fitness those are the things that went J.ito the 1,500-meter run. The greatest miler the world has seen to date (El liott) spread-eagled the 1,500- meter field. Four years ago, at the age of 20, this man missed the Olympic Games be cause of some misfortune or prank that caused a piano crate to drop on .his foot. Burly (Dyrol Burleson) was to try to- get on the leader at the 880 mark and stay there until 100 yards out. He could not gain that position. He made every effort that was possible on Sept. 6, 1860, and he ran the fastest 1,500 of his life well under the Olympic record and placed' sixth. Burley Prepares Now Was Burly disappointed? Yes! Was he discouraged? No! Determined that the prepara tion for the 1964 Olympics (Tokyo) begins not in October, but now. He will race in the European tours and when he returns to school we will see how much of Arthur Lydl ard's material fits into our needs and abilities. Lydiard is the coach of the New Zeal and team that produced a gold medal in the 5,000-meters. Grelle (Jim) also found the race his toughest ever. He finished eighth in the world's championship. All of us learn ed things, that if taken ad vantage of, will be most helpful. Let me tell you about the 1,600-meter relay in which Otis Davis anchored not only a winning, but world-record effort. Otis took this compe tition with complete serious ness. The. only time he was out of his bed was for work out, for meals and to take place in all of his heats and finals. But he was the only "man of Oregon" who showed emotions. When he was told of his world record in the 400, he jumped about the sta dium like a very young boy who had just learned that he had won a scooter., , U.S. All Way In the relay it was supposed to be a tossup between the HEW '60 RAMBLER DELUXE 4-DOOR "6" NOT STRIPPED EQUIPPED WITH Bank Terms If you are short of caih, er If you think you owe too much on your eir see us! We have helped hundreds with their down payments er monthly : payments and we can help you. ONLY $43 Month With Normal Down Automatic Radio or Heater Whitewallj Outside Mirror Underieal Glaxe - mm SPORTS OTI Owls' Back Lost By Injury Klamath Falls - Disaster in the form of "fullbackitus" has struck head coach, Rex Hunsaker, a cruel blow. After losing Little All American Stan Glass last year, Coach Rex had a sleep er in Dick Ho from Boise Junior college who was one of the greatest prospective fullbacks in Owl history, but a broken collarbone occurring in last Saturday's scrimmage took him out of play for the season. Lanny Myers, 1959 Shrine Allstar halfback from St. Helens received a hip-pointer in the same scrimmage, which will take him out of play for an indefinite period and hurt depth in the backfield. This year spectators may expect the Owls take to the air. With the loss of fine rush ing backs like Glass and Ho and with 1958 all-conference end Ardell Hamilton returned to the squad and the gain of Arties Palmore, 6-3 185-pound (100 yards in 9.8) transfer from Oakland City college, in end positions, the type of play will be different than anything previously seen in a Hunsaker squad. Football practice for the Oregon Tech Owls began Sept. 6, with eight days available for practice before traveling to Salt Lake City for the season opener with Westmin ster college. Nothing on cam pus is important enough to interrupt two practice sessions each day and a skull session in the evening. Head coach, Rex Hunsaker, is pleased with the spirit of this squad - they want to play football, but he is concerned about the lack of experienced players. With Ho and Myers out of the squad, twenty-three of thirty-nine players have had no collegiate experience and seven others have had only one year. Backfield coach, Jim Cor dial, and line coach, George Miller, are pushing the squad in tactical skills; Condition ing is a real problem in the short pre-game period. ' Tornado Stressing Defense In Drills For Pirate Tussle LEADS MONEY WINNERS Dunedin, Fla. -IUPD- Arnold Palmer, who has won seven tournaments and finished in the top five in 14 others this year; leads the money winners in eolf this year with S75.4UU Ken Venturi is second with $43,200 and Dow Finsterwald is third with $40,300. "We'll have our hands full that's for darn sure." That was Head Coach Fred Spiegelberg's remark last night concerning M e d f o r d high's football game here Fri day night with Marshfield high of Coos Bay. Spiegelberg said that the Black Tornado is concentrat ing on defense to stop the at tack of the much heavier Pi rate aggregation. A lot of running has been in order for the Tornadoes since the head man and his staff were of the opinion that the Medfordites were not in the best of condi tion for the Areata game. The tutor listed tackle John James as "doubtful" so far as playing against Marshfield is concerned. James suffered a concussion last Friday night against the California club. The veteran may be able to play but is engaging in no con tact work this week. Monte Jones, who took over for James on defense, and Sam Knudsen, who replaced him on offense, could have those starting assignments this week. Seven Defense Regulars Information on the Marsh field squad has been provided by Kenn Hess, sports editor of the World of Coos Bay. He re ported that from the Pirate game against Thurston of Springfield it couldn't be told whether Marshfield was really that strong or Thurston that week. The new Willamette Valley school has eight letter men from last year's Spring field club, four of them reg ulars. No member of the current Marshfield offensive starting unit was a regular last year. Playing the most was Don Austin, 217 pound fullback, who had a couple of real good games at the end of the sea son. He was an alternate, as was Dave Hansen, 227 tackle. There are seven regulars back on the defensive team, Bill Smith (160), Wylie Smith (160), Terry Shore (180), Bob Buries (200), Bob Keicneri (175), John Layton (208) and Hansen. This crew is bolstered by Josh Mattox, 253-pound tackle transfer from Inde pendence, Mo. Line Big Says Hess: "The line is big (it averages 208 pounds on of fense), but my personal obser vation is that it lacks good mobilitv as (Dan) Sieg, (Mike) Hood, (Dick) Ragsdale and Co. U.S., ' Germany and ' South Africa. Wile it was not a runaway, it was the U.S. all of the way. Jack Yerman led off and he gave a three-yard lead to Earl Young, who came in even. Then it was Glenn Davis, who really poured on the coals in the third leg. He won the race, but I'm sure Otis would have done the same had not Glenn run a tre mendous 44.5 for his leg. Otis received the baton about five yards in front. He moved easily around the turn and made Kaufmann (Germany's anchor man) work to catch him at the 220 mark. Kaufmann was blowing on Otis' shoulder and it was just the right tempo to set Otis afire. At the middle of the last turn Otis lifted into a beautiful sprint that left the German foundering. The U.S. won by a clear six yards. The new world's and Olympic rec ord speaks quite eloquently for the performance. Bandaged Thigh Otis (although he had a bandaged thigh) went through every competition with great ease. He had no distress in any race and jogged easily around the Infield after each performance. To we Americans, we had much to be pleased over with Max Truex. He was in con tention throughout the entire 10.000-meter race, the fastest bv over a minute any Ameri can had even run. nis name anneared on the electric score- hnard In sixth place and his time was within five seconds of Vladimir Kuts' Olympic record. I am pleased if we, in Eugene, had some small part In his improvement. He was with us for three weeks. I believe that credit should also go to Mike Iglol, who worked with Max the last week before the race. But Max was the fellow who ran the race and It was tremend ous. When I had dinner with Lvdlard. he said he will bring his two champions from New Zealand to our area next year, In turn, we send a couple of our boys to New Zealand. Get out your map, look over tne country and go into train ing. When everything was over, we had dinner with Dave Ed strom, Grelle, the Dellingers (Bill and Myrna). Burly and against Thurston, especially up the middle. I believe this year's team has more depth than that of a year ago, es pecially in the backfield. (Gary) Crabaugh (154), al though he hasn't earned a starter's spot yot, is a catty little scntback who wowed 'em Friday night. But Bob Reichert will probably start. He has pretty fair speed but is no demon." Wylie Smith, halfback, is a spirited competitor, according to Hess. Austin "just ranis ahead." At quarterback, Sam Landes (150) is pressed by Fred Loffer (162). They were third and fourth string last year. Of the possiblie Pirate start ers all are seniors except Lay ton, center, and Stan Traxler (175), end. They are juniors. Franchise Sales To Be Discussed Portland (DPI) Potential sale of two franchises to ma jor league baseball clubs will be among the items dis cussed at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast league di rectors here Sept. 21-22. The sale talks will concern the purchase of the Vancou ver, B.C., and the Seattle clubs by the Milwaukee Braves of the National league and the Boston Red Sox of the American loop, respec tively. PCL President T)ewey So riano said other topics to be discussed include the rental problems of the Sacramento Solons for Edmunds field in Sacramento, Portland's plans for the 1961 season and the 154-game playing schedule for next year. o B 3 Tentative Red Raider Unit Picked Ashland - Southern Oregon college has exhibited what coach Al Akhis called his tentative offensive lineup for the Myrtle Bowl football clash against Sacramento State col lege in Coos Bay Saturday afternoon. Akins plans to start flashy Gordy Carrigan and Howard Hartman at the ends to be on the receiving end of quarter back John Buck's aerials. Buck was a fine surprise in the Sunday scrimmage ac cording to Akins who feels he has finally found a signal caller. Jess Munyon at left tackle, Ron Mullanix at right tackle, Tony (the Tiger) Brauner at left guard, Willie Garner at right guard, and Neil Green at center appear to be the interior linemen for the open ing. With Buck in the backfield will be Al (the Horse) Barnes, With Buck as the quarter back, there was still a lack of depth at that position with Doug Olsen still hobbling at practice. Olsen is responding quicker than expected, but he will not be ready Satur day. Dave Hughes who was making the grade at end was shifted to quarterback as Buck's understudy. Hughes has played the role before and with the number of quali fied ends on hand, Akins feels Hughes would be valuable be hind Buck. With the line from tackle to tackle averaging 210 pounds, the Raiders will have a large forward wall with the 240-pound Green anchoring the center. Emphasis has been placed on the smallness of the Raiders but this first unit line will be taking a back seat to no one. From there on the weights get somewhat lighter. The backfield with Barnes, Bransom, Francis, and Buck will average 179 pounds with the 205 pound Barnes leading the way. CONDITION POOR Portland-IUPD-The condition of Rollie Trultt, veteran Port land baseball announcer, was listed as "poor" today by at tendants at Holladay . Park hospital. A spokesman said Truitt, who suffered a severe heart attack last week, had not been resting well. ..,!..,.. i, 0ly ' 0LVMPIA BREWING COMPANY, 01VMPIA, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 01 BUY TWO PLAYERS Cincinnati, Ohio -' IUPD -Catcher Hal Bevan, who is hitting .304, and pitcher Ray Ripplemeyer, who has a 15-12 record and 2.80 earned run av erage, have been purchased from the Seattle club of the Pacific Coast league by the Cincinnati Reds. (of Medford) may well prove, j record and a They were real tough at times ' average. 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