SPORTS
Wouldn't Quit
By JOSEPH N. BELL
At 28, this "senior citizen" of U.S. track is showing the
youngsters and the state-supported Red athletes what
old-fashioned American self-discipline can accomplish
"We don't kid ourselves about the work involved," he
says. "We either do it or we give up those rosy dreams of
records, It's as simple as that"
The "we" Beatty refers to includes the members of the
Los Angeles Track Club, a unique organization which may
be the device that leads tho United States out of the jungle
of bickering among the crotchety old men who control
and, some would say, strangle amateur athletics through
out the country.
The Los Angeles club was formed by runners and track
buffs to provide competition and coaching for a half-dozen
American distance runners who wanted to train under the
most advantageous conditions for the 1964 Olympic Games.
The key man in this setup is the coach: a track magician
named Mihaly Igloi, who left his native Hungary after the
1956 revolution and brought his top distance runner, Lazlo
Tabori, to the United States with him.
Beatty was a senior at the University of North Carolina
when he first met Igloi. The great coach was training
Tabori there for a few months, and Beatty thought that he
might like to train under Igloi someday, too. But winning
his degree took precedence over running at this stage in
Beatty's life. When he packed away his spikes after his last
college race, he didn't intend to get them out again.
Following A hitch in the Army, Beatty settled down to
learn the restaurant business. Then came the Philadel
phia meet and Jim knew what he had to do. He quit his
job and headed for California, where Igloi was coaching
at a private club. Following Igloi's rugged training rules,
Beatty improved remarkably, running his first sub-four-minute
mile in May, 1960. A week later, he set new U. S.
records in both the 3-mile and 5,000-meter races. He was
beginning to know himself and his capabilities.
"I have better than average speed," he says, "and better
than average stamina. There are faster runners with better
stamina, but not too many with both."
Beatty easily won the 5,000 meters in the Olympic trials
in 1960 and then returned to Charlotte and married
his home-town sweetheart Jim took Barbara Ann to Rome
with him for the Olympics, but he won no triumphs for
her. He injured his foot and failed even to qualify for the
finals. He was desperately disappointed, and one of the
major driving forces in his life since then has been to
show the people of Europe that Americans can run the
distance races.
He already has proved his point several times. In 1961,
he captained a team that toured Europe, ending up in Rus
sia. He ran the mile seven times and won every race. Last
year V.i :epeated this succession of triumphs, climaxing
a tour through Europe with a 3 :56.5 mile in London, the
fastest mile ever run by an American.
But these triumphs are just warm-ups to Beatty. His
sights along with those of his teammates at the Los
Angeles Track Club are set on the 1964 Olympics. Since
1961, L.A.T.C. members have carried the United States
to near-ascendancy in distance races. Beatty is the star
of the show, but he gets stiff competition from Jim Grelle
and Bobby Seaman. Both men were pushing him a year
ago when he ran the first indoor mile ever recorded under
four minutes, and Seaman was in there again when Beatty
broke his own world record last month by running the in
door mile in 3:58.6.
It looks as if there will be more glory ahead for both
Beatty and the United States. At 28, he seems to be getting
stronger and better every day. He's a small, well-proportioned,
dark complexioned man who weighs in at 127 pounds
and eats as if he had no worries about his weight. His blue
eyes glint with humor, and he has an easy-talking, easy
going Southern way about him that gives little hint of his
zeal until the subject turns to track and his eyes become
earnest and intense.
"We want to show the world that Americans aren't soft
that we can work and train hard when we set our minds
to it" Jim says, "and we want to prove that we can do it
with men who earn a living and work full time.
Jim gets congratulations from wife Barbara after another
victory. He holds the world record for the indoor mile.
"We also hope the Los Angeles club can set an example
other communities will follow. In the U. S., athletes find it
almost impossible to continue' training after they leave
school because they haven't the facilities or the backing.
Six months before every Olympic year, we start trying
to do something about it. This simply doesn't work.
"Our athletes can give a top account of themselves only
if they are able to keep in training all the time and this
means the development of club teams similar to the one
we have in Los Angeles. Only in this way can we get good
coaching, training, and competition."
Beatty has become man with a mission. For his coun
try, he wants supremacy in distance running. For himself, '
he seeks two triumphs: to win the Olympic 1,500 meters
for the United States in the 1964 Olympic Games and to
beat Australian Peter Snell's 3:64.4 world record in the
mile. Chances are very good that Jim will do both.
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