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CO Djerassi Mails IC4A Hammer Mark YOUNG IDEAS DICK YOUNG By Dana Moxley Williamsburg, May 23 The United States Army is soon to get the fastest improving hammer thrower in the world. Boris Dov) Djerassi, Israel-born, Brooklyn-raised Northeastern senior three times outdid his previous best while opening the 99th IC4A Track and Field Championships with a record performance this The Storytellers The other day I was riding a Checker Cab in New York. The driver's name was Randy McKenna. We started talking baseball, and the next thing he was telling me about how he picked up a fare during the Winter in front torrid afternoon. of P.J.

Clarke's, a party of four: Not only was the 250-pound redhead's win "One of the guys sits in front with me, and he looks sort of ning throw of zzz-b a cnampionsnip recora, due familiar, but I can't place it. Well, we're gabbing about sports, and the Yankees getting Catfish, and I ask him his name "He says, George, and I say, Oh, you're Steinbrenner, I should points," he said. "And yet I've been turned down by 10 schools. I cant understand it." Henry (Monk) Little, William and. Mary's first IC4A champion whose home stadium (Gary Field) record for the long jump was set.

at 25-0 31 years ago, was recently inducted into "Virginia's Sports Hall of Fame. Today, that record was broken by another William and Mary athlete, John Jones of nearby Portsmouth. He leaped 25V, almost a foot better than his previous beat, beat. IC4A Hot Weather Mark. Too Two weeks ago, two-time IC4A javelin throw winner Randy Charlsen of Navy, up and quit the Middie squad.

Today, Robert (Skip) Cummins of Dartmouth, runnerup to Charlsen the last two years, won with a heave of 226-1. A second record was set when someone called the weather bureau. Never before, in the 98 previous IC4A championships, had the mercury reached as high as the 93 degrees at Cary Field today. For the third straight year, C.W. Post came up with a champion in the discus throw.

Jim Post, who won two years ago, repeated with a winning throw of 162-1. The '74 iitlist was his teammate. Roland Desonier, who is sitting out this season with a football injury. The only other Met athlete to score in the first-day field events was John McCree of St. John's, fifth to Djerassi with a 190-11 hammer throw far from his best.

Maryland's Atlantic Coast Conference champions, co-favorites with Seton Hall and Villano-va, already had the lead when today's program began. For the Terps' Al Hamlin, jogging through the final event, the 1,500 meters, he was so much in command, won the decathlon the last two days. He finished with 7,227 points, far outdistancing runnerup Marty of Rutgers have known. it a the best ever done by an 1C4A athlete at any time, any place. It is also the best this year by any American.

Navy's Ted Bregar had held both previous marks 212-8 for the meet and of 218-7 by an IC4A collegian. Already Eyes American Record The 23-year-old Djerassi's best previous effort was 215-8. A year ago, when he finished Taxi Right to Opening Day "We sret to where they're going, and it's a buck and a half on a 5 a the meter. He wants to live me a liver, and savs keeD the chance I say nothin' doin'. It's on the house.

An honor. "He takes my name and address, and I think nothine about it second to Bregar in this ancint two-day meet, till one morning here comes a letter, and inside is two tickets to he merely did 203-11. Now he's talking about such figures as the American record 235-11 established by Ed Burke eight years ago. "I'm going to get that record, before next ciosesr i year's Olympics, Djerassi promised. 1 ve been experimenting with the four-turn throw and have done 23d in practice.

He took only three turns, as usual, today. OVUE TO OUT THF Picst ball He is soon to join the Army, so that he will be able to get some schooling in what he is most nterested physical therapy. He would have preferred to do his graduate study in some uni versity. "I've maintained an average of over three opening day for the Yankees. Right in the club's front-row box.

On opening day, I sat right next to the Walker kids who threw out the first ball." Joe Hurt WFL TV Pact By Norm Miller The loss of Joe Namath has seriouslv impaired the WFL's prospects for a The charges against Cleon Jones have been dropped, and it's all right to make jokes about the technical charge of "indecent exposure" used by St. Pete police to describe a man sleeping nude in a parked car. Don Grant, in defense of Cleon, described the car as national TV contract, according to an executive of TVS, the independent network van type, with high windows. "The officer, or anyone else, would which handled the league's games in 74 nave had to stand on tip-toes to look into the window, said the Mets chairman. "This Namath thing has obvi- I ously muddied the waters," Chris That reminded Grant of an Incident many years ago, when he was a night clerk at the Hotel Commodore.

One night, he said received a call from a tenant, an excited middle-aged woman who Zoulamis, vice president of TVS, said yesterday. He added that TVS has not yet picked up its option to televise WFL games this coming season. Giants Iitfc Ex-Colt O'Brien Jim O'Brien who kicked the winning field goal in the Colts' 16-13 Super Bowl win over the Cowboys in 1971, yesterday signed a two-year contract with the Giants, setting up a contest among seven placekickers in pre-season training. O'Brien, also a wide receiver, missed the '74 season after suffering an eye injury during a tavern fight last October. He had been cut by the Colts and picked up by the Lions.

In keeping with the Arnsparger-Robustelli program of dealing in numbers, O'Brien will compete with Pete Gogolak and five others for the placekicking job. The others: Jeff White, picked up from the Patriots; Ricky Townsend, No. 13 draft pick from Tennessee; and three rookie free agents. MILLER Asked to estimate the chances that the WFL would wind up with a national TV contract, he replied, "about 50-50." Namath decision not to sign a something terrible was happening, and she wanted to complain. "What is it?" said Grant.

"You come up here and you'll see," she said. So he went to the room and the lady pointed out the window to the facing rooms of the opposite wing. "That man, she said, "keeps walking past his window without any clothes on." Grant looked. Soon, sure enough, tha figure of a man appeared, just the head and nude torso. "But madam," said Grant politely, "from where you are, you cannot see below the man's waist." "Oh no?" she said, "just stand on the chair and see!" Roger Craig is one of the originals.

He and 21 others were picked, that memorable draft day, Oct. 10, 1961. Rog is now pitching coach at Houston, and whenever the Mets come through, he spins stories about the Old Days. "The first game the Mets ever played was in St. Louis," he remembered.

"We flew in the night before, and checked into the i with the WFL obviously has weakened our chances for TV exposure," Zoulamis said. Waiting for Namath Still another independent TV- sports operator estimated the WFL's chances for a national TV contract as "less than Chase, which Is one of the better hotels, but the elevators are kinda small, so when 17 players jammed into one and pushed the buttons, the damn thing went up about six feet and stopped. 'Pick Me Up So I Can Breath' He said that several prospective TV sponsors had refrained from a commitment while awaiting the Namath developments. With no Namath, the man said, very few of the sponsors will sign up with the WFL. Zoulamis estimated each WFL team's TV revenue for '74 at between $90,000 and $100,000.

In outlining the league's reorganized financial structure, president Chris Hemmeter projected TV income at $100,000 each from national and local sources for each club. Zoulamis said that even without a national contract, the league still could operate. Have Local Interest "The league still could get exposure on a local franchise basis," he said. "Each team has local interest. The exposure would be good (on a local level), though the money would not be "Hoby Landrith was one of them.

He was in there with all cause of his demands for a cut of the league's TV package. "I'd heard he had requested certain compensation for excellence, that is, certain performance bonuses in addition to the $500,000 a year salary," Zoulamis said. "But I've heard nothing of his demands of a piece of the TV money." Hurdler Gibson Killed in Crash El Paso, May 23 (UPI) Paul Gibson, 26, a hurdler for the International Track Association and a former wide receiver for three NFL teams, was killed to- day in the crash of his car on Interstate 10. Gibson graduated from University of Texas-El Paso in 1971 and was the NCAA 120 high hurdles champ in 1970. He played for the Buffalo Bills, Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys in the NFL before signing with the ITA.

those big guys, and you know how small he was. After about a half hour, he yelled, "Get me out of here, or pick me up so I can breathe!" "We were stuck is that damn thing for about two hours. There was a lot of wise-cracking to keep the guys loose. Nobody really panicked, We were being kept in touch with the rescue operations by a woman who spoke to us through the squawk-box in the elevator, Jim Marshall was one of us, the guy who now manages the Cubs. When the lady's voice said it wouldn't be much longer, the same.

Zoulamis said Eddie Einhorn, president of TVS, planned to meet soon with WFL officials and prospective TV sponsors, "to determine what we can do with the league if anything." The TVS exec said he knew nothing of a report that Na- I math's WFL deal exploded be- I I'M First 61MME THff Fans to Get 371 Refunds The Giants and Jets announced jointly yesterday that their 1971 season ticket sub-scibers soon will receive refund checks for home games played during the Phase One period of price controls in effect that year. In the Giants' case, the refunds will cover the first five games of '71. The amounts are $1 per ticket per game on reserved seats and $2 on mezzanine and upper boxes. The Mets' refunds, covering their first three home games that season, will be 92c, $1.44, $1.92 and $2.89, depending on seat locations. The action is in accordance with an agreeement with the federal government following a court ruling in a test case in Atlanta, both clubs will make refunds by mail, within the next few weeks.

The Giants also will make refunds to '71 single-game ticket-buyers who may have kept the stubs for the games concerned. i JtXU Jim imitated a fairy and said, don't hurry, I'm having such a good time in here with all these young men! "Looking back on that first night, you had to feel that the Mets were going to be something special to baseball." Danny Murtaugh. one of baseball's fonder family men, had his three married children and spouses at his home for Thanksgiving Day dinner a few years back. Followed by Patter of Big Feet "When it came time to sit down at the table," he says, "I told them I wanted to say something to the family. I said your mother and I miss the patter of little feet around the house, and we've talked it over.

I made a lot of money this year, and we've decided to give $7,500 to the first grandchild in the family. "Then," says Murtaugh, "I lowered my head to say grace, and when I looked up, only my wife and I were there." CIRCLE LINE SIGHTSEEING YACHTS-35 thrilling miles-3 breeze-filled hours sail completely around Manhattan. America's favor--, ite boat ride! SAILINGS: 9:45, 10:30, 12:15, 1:30, 2:15, 3:00, 3:45, 5:30 Additional Sailings Saturday Sunday :1 1:30, 1:00, 4:30 YACHTS SAIL FROM PIER 83, FOOT OF WEST 43RD ST. CIRCLE LINE'.