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Independent from Long Beach, California • 57

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Independenti
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Long Beach, California
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NCAA Indoor Meet DETROIT Morgan State st an American collegiate jecojrd. la-Uat-relay-end Stated John Raip-do lost a Jumpoff in the high jump at 6-10 in the first NCAA indoor track championships Saturday. A 'capacity crowd of 9,553 let Coho Arena cheered the I Maryland teams victory, the time was 3:15.6. The previous I record of 3:16 for a compara--ble 11-laps-to-the-mile. board i track was set in 1957 by VII-' lanova.

1 In one of the biggest surprises, John Uelses, America's first 16-foot pole vault 1 er and holder of the American 1 indoor record, placed a poor fifth In his specialty. UELSES, of La Salle, had vaulted 16 feet or better more than 30 times and has the nation's indoor hecord leap of 16-4. But it Just wasnt his day. The high Jump provided one of the highlights of the afternoon, with Rambo and Frank Costello of Maryland engaged in a stirring duel. Costello finally won the' event with an official leap of 6-10, although he deared 6-11 in the Jump-off.

In the 60-yard dash, Nebraskas Charlie Greene flashed across the line first in 6.1 seconds, batting Darel Newman of Fresno State, co-j holder of the indoor record. I Chris Johnson of USC put on a spurt near the end to I win the mile in 4:08. Johnson was several yards ahead of runnerup Rick Cunningham of Miami of Ohio at the finish. KANSAS' Herald Hadley put on a great finishing kick to heat Notre Dames Bill Clark in the two-mile. The time was 8:56.4.

Michigan State's Gene Washington, the favorite of the partisan came through in winning style to take the 60-yard high hurdles. Missouri captured the team trophy by scoring 14 points on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis Summaries: HM Beatles ONLY TWO attractions can drive con temporary teenage girls into such fits of ddighWhe Beatles or basketball In this case, the girls are from North High of Torrance, and they were Just so excited over Fridays upset victory over Redondo in CIF semifinals at Long Beach Arena that well, you know how it is. 200 RECORD BY SMITH UCLA wnweyiew rwww nwr utWn lINnatt, OMe Untoanltv, m. itrai seconds at the non-scoring triangular track meet Weather conditions were good and meet officials said the time would be submitted to authorities for recognition. Roger Weme established a Spartan school record in the pole vault with a leap of 15-6.

Other teams in the meet were U. of Pacific and UC Santa. Barbara. Frey won the 220 in 21.8, the 440 in 48.6 and anchored the winning 440 relay team, 42.1. It was a "cinch meet, sp the junior from Anaheim didnt have to anchor the mile relay team.

Jackson, a 23-year-old from Baltimore and a threetime Air Force dash champion, showed better jump EVER Duel for than a. jackrabbit in winning frosh sprints in 9.7 (equalling a 27-year school record) and 21.2 (a new school record). Oxys other impressive performers were Don Main, who won what looked like a triple deadheat in the high hurdles, 14.8, and Jon Peck, third in the 880 at 1:53.6 with lots of running left in him. 1 1,000 Dick Fires 66, Wins Virginia Tourney fell, to UCLA sophomore Geoff Pyne, who is billed in his hometown of Blenheim, New Zealand as "the next Peter Snell. Pyne coasted to victory in the two-mile in Former record was 9:15.1 by Russ Bennett of Oxy in 1959.

Other Bruins singing in the rain were Bob Frey and Norm Jackson. FINEST ROUND in Dora! MIAMI UPl Australias Bruce Devlin shot a 2-under-par .70 Saturday end pulled two strokes ahead of his nearest pursuer, Doug Sanders, in the battle, for the $11,000 first prize in the Dor-al Invitational Gdf Tournament The 27-year-old Devlin; seeking his first victory since he took the St Petersburg Open, a year ago, goes into todays final round 11 strokes Wall's Comeback Ties Besselink in Puerto Rico (UPI) Defending champion Art Wall staged a dramatic comeback Saturday in the third round of the Puerto Rico Open golf championship, coming from seven strokes off the pace to tie A1 Besselink- for the lead SAN JOSE tin Tommy Smith of San Jose State College equalled the world record in the 200-meter dash Saturday with a time of 20 seconds. Smith tied the marie set In 1960 by Dave Sims of Duke University. The. sophomore dash man also won the 100-yard dash in 9.5 seconds and ran the.

anchor leg on the 440-yard relay team that won in 42.7 By. JERRY WYNN to watch. It handito. Beat a wrestler, thats Those are two all. You recently handicap matfh.

I had to time. Not like at once. Isnt How many I can't many. In 6 What is UI can use ordinary ones have the best and I go back whenever I What hold "Any one Who is the 'There were high school finally beat much. Then been champ very tough.

Destroyer stroyeiv is a paste Bush called it a great victory. There was tremendous team spirit Several of the boys turned in lifetime bests. As for Occidentals new coach, Dean Brittenham CANCEL MG MEET Hie Long Beach Stato-USC-San Diego State track meet scheduled Saturday in the Coliseum was cancelled because of a wet track. well, maybe that was rain In his There was plenty of it in the air. UCLA won every race from the 100 through the two-mile, but the day's thriller and best time was the 330-yard hurdles.

Vance Peterson of Oxy won in 36.8, with Roger Johnson of UCLA a contending runner-up in 372 and Ron Hahn of the Tigers a strong third in 37.5, Peterson bettered the field record, the- meet record, Ron Whitneys school record (37.0), and missed toe American record by six-tqnths of a second. Only Jim Miller (36.2) ran faster in all of 1964. Johnson, a sophomore from New Zealand, broke the Bruin record by a full two seconds: One other meet record tSi (0v) 0Cenner(i IShn i IKLAl'jSV. HMM It! Urn fix?) B-inT AaSSon 22-104. PHqw Ltyfi (UCLA) 141-1 By JOHN DIXON As Occidental track coach, Jim Bush nefcer lost a meet to UCLA.

Now as UCLA coach, he may never lose a meet to Occidental. As a matter of fact, he may never lose a meet to anyone. The Bruins displayed good balance and a regiment of national caliber middle distance gallopers in crushing Occidental 93-52, Saturday at Eagle Rock. The never was brighter for the Westwood gang, for the sophomore-junior dominated squad will be joined next year by the strongest frosh team in school history, a team that ground up the Oxy yearlings 103-29 Saturday. varsity victory broke a 13-13 series deadheat and was UCLAs most decisive win in the modem era.

Grinning like the tooth 49er Club 2nd in Fast 2-Mile Relay Long Beach 49er Track Club ran the fourth-fastest two-mile relay time in the na tion this year outdoors, but had to take a back seat to the powerful Southern California -Striders in toe Camp Pendleton Relays Saturday. Long Beach finished two yards behind the Striders in 7:32.9. The Striders were clocked in Bill Crowley Tom Jennings Dave Mellady (1:53.1) and Darryl Taylor (1:53.0) ran for. the 49er JTC, national AAU indoor champion caught Taylor at the wire. The track Club was third in the sprint medley with under par for Dorals diffi- set him back but, he-.

birdied'the 15th by running, dowy a 25-footer. would have taken a-Houdini to get out of the! trouble I was in, Sanders said. The worst was' on the lari; two holes, where Sanders scrambled marvelously out of difficulty to salvage par fours. At the 17th. he had to pitch from behind a bunker on the all I can think I would do.

things I like to do most of won a much-publicized What was the handicap? fight two men at same a tag team match; but both that a handicap?" matches have you lost? remember exactly, but not years, maybe 10 or 12. your favorite hold? 10 different holds besides the that -everybody learns. -1 coach In all of Latin America to him for more lessons can. hurts you most? that the Destroyer uses. toughest wrestler you've Rivulets of perspiration flowed down the handsome face of Pedro Morales, the new heavyweight wrestling champion of the or at least this part of the world.

had Just overcome the strenuous haling of Karl Von Stroheim, a villainous fellow as anyone could tell even without a first look. Outside Morales dressing room at the Long Beach Auditorium, the cheers still resounded. For Pedro is the peoples choice, little tykes beg for his autograph and. little old ladies jab pins into his opponents. And even his most dastardly opponents have learned to respect the 22-year-old Latin hero.

It seems, Pedro, that half the wrestlers -an good guys and half an bad. Why dont the fans boo yon? The ones who. get booed are villains because they treat the spectators without respect. They just dont like people. There are a lot of people in every profession who dont like people and should be booed.

I like people. How one a mild-mannered young fel- a49 wfflm. I learned to wrestlp in Puerto Rico. There it is a very popular sport in high far side of the green and then Sender a 10-foot 'putt. At the JijtTee on his second shot, but again avoided a bogey by canning a 3Moot putt Jack Nicklaus, who had been having a difficult time rJIiiiion the Doral course, fired his best round, 69, and was seven strokes behind Devlin.

Merr HeSert SJMUiT Hotter 77ML3ll Ceoeer M-71-n-ill Nick leu TfrTMt-n two. First was a bully in and it took me six tries to him. That helped my spirits there was The Destroyer. He for a long time. He is very, (Note: Three days later, Fri- Pedro defeated for the man easy to boo.

He is a i Jock qfrgrgl ji z-t: n-n-Ttt-ir Zl h-; OTHiiis ciner, n-nTl) Jkn denier. Mlto nntt-TBi Tommy Aon I A retool, gig crowds come him is my life, jto capture low net honors ii? lithe class A division of the weekly Saturday Sweepstakes Virginia Country Club. And after that? I will go back to my home, which is in Mexico City now. And I will find a. senorita to get married and seven sons.

And will raise them kll to be wres-i tiers. All good guys, 6 course. No bandttos. was fun to be cheered by big crowds. So I Just kept on If you had not becoufe a wrestler, what would you have been? I think I would bfc a fellow who sits rtCM little river in the mountains some-' where with a fishing pole.

If I couldn't be time of 3:27.1 behind the Striders (323.5) and. Camp Pendleton and was fourth in the distance medley (1027.0). li tor I.

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