All,“ By JIM FISH S & B Sports Editor Grinnell‘s track team journeys 'this weekend to the Drake relays in Des Moines, where they will face some of the tough- est college competition in the nation. Pioneer Coach Dick Young has entered his men in five relay events and in three of the open individual events. Coach Young will take his ace relay team of Ron Schac- he], Jeri Langham, John TePaske, and Bruce Beckord, who will no doubt be facing their toughest opponents of the season. Coach Young has the quartet entered in the sprint medley invrtational where theywill run against top relay teams from schools such as Texas Southern, Lamar Tech, and Lincoln University. Young’s relay team will also be defending its 880-yard and mile relay championships won last year in the Iowa College division. Grinnellians who braved the elements to see the team run last year saw Fred Berg make a courageous finish after pulling a thigh muscle about 50 yards from the finish line. Berg was able to make it across the line to clinch the first in the Sad-relay. With Berg out for the day, Coach Youn had to call trackman Fred Arnold out of the stands to take erg’s place in the mile relay. The team of Arnold, John Edgren, Jeri Langham, and Bruce Beckord combined to take another first with a time of 13:22.3 in the mile event. Entering the individual events for the Pioneers will be Rod Brown in the two mile run, Tom Wood in the Javelin, and Jim Miller in the shot put. Miller, just last week, broke the college shot put record with a heave of 491%”. The Pioneers, who haven’t missed a Drake Relay for 51 years, have been named one of the honor teams at the Relays his year. Grinnell, sharing honors with the University of Minnesota, will be awarded a plaque by Relavs Director Bob Karnes at the annual coaches dinner to be held tonight in Des Moines. This award, as well as the fact that the Olympics are coming up this summer in Tokyo, moved this writer to do a little investigation to see how Grinnell College runners have done in the past half century, both in the Drake Relays and in national and world competition. Probably the best known of the Grinnell greats is Mor- an Taylor, a hurdlerfwas the only American trackman ever 0 place among the top three in three consecutive Olympic games. Taylor, ’25, broke the world’s record in winning the 400~meter hurdles at the 1924 games in Paris. In the 1928 games in Amsterdam he placed second, and in 1932, at Los Angeles, he was able to take a third. Taylor still holds three Grinnell College track records: 120-yard high hurdles in :14.7, 220-yard high hurdles in 223.2, and the broad jump with a leap of 25’2". Taylor’s coach‘, Harry J. (“Doc”) Huff, ’09, was a great sprinter, clocking a sub ten second hundred yard dash. Huff beat the country's top sprinters when he won both the 100 and 220-yard dashes in the Olympic tryout finals at James- kown, Va. The Grinnell College Scarlet and Black reported is running in-the 1908 Olympics in England as follows: “Soon after his arrival in England. Huff contracted a severe cold, due to the peculiar London climate, which with a sprained ankle received on the second day of training, prevented his appearing at his best. However, he won preliminaries in both events, the 100 and 200 meter dashes, and was only narrowly beaten in the semi-final.“ Other great names in Grinnell College track history in- clude Charles Hoyt, ’18, national collegiate sprint champion; Karl Hass, a dasllman who represented the United States in the Pershing Olympics (Inter-Allied meet in Pershing Sta- dium, Paris); Leonard Paulu, ’22, a Phi Bete who was a na» national titlewinning sprinter; and “Iron Mike" Pilbrow, the NCAA 2-mile champ in 1933. One could go on and on about the good runners Grinnell has had who haven’t gained na- tional fame. This would be an overwhelming task and I won’t even try to begin to list some of these great runners. Chief starter at the relays this year will again be Les Duke ‘25, Grinnell track coach‘froin 1927 to 1947, and him» self quite a trackman for the Pioneers. Mr. Duke is now with the Ramsey Insurance Agency in Grinnell and is an avid supporter of Grinnell track activities. Added incentive for Grinnell students to attend the 1964 Drake Relays (well, at least for the men) will be the special event Saturday afternoon featuring the “bouffanted” young ladies from the Texas Track Club. The Texas club will meet the five best 440Ayard Iowa high school girl’s relay teams. Sharp-eyed readers of the April 20th issue of Sports Illus- trated will recall the fetching cover picture and story which told of the Texas Track Club and their coach who are dedi- cated to the proposition that a girl can be beautiful and still run the 100 in 10.9. See you at the Relays! SCARLET AND BLACK Golfers Win 12th, With Victories Over Carleton, St. Olaf The Pioneer varsity golf team added two more victories over the weekend to extend its Winning streak to twelve matches. Mike Miller led the way over St. Olaf last Satur- day, 9-6, and Ted Risser was medalist in the 1075 Victory over Carleton at Northfield, Minnesota. Mike Miller’s performance was a tremendous improvement after last week's 107 at Iowa State. He finished with a 78 and won his match 2—1. Dave Seller- gren and Ted Risser each carded 79’s. Eric Miller Shot an 83 and Jeff Kohlman finished with an 87. Tops for St. Olaf was Hal UlVeStad with a 79. Ted Risser. apparently not bothered by the blustery weath» er at Carleton, turned in the best score of the season, a per 72. He and Russ Harden, With a 78, won their matches 3-0. Mike Miller carded an 81, Sellergren an 32, and Eric Miller an 83. Today the Pioneers travel to Des Moines for the Drake In» Vitaiional Tournament. Last year Grinnell finished second, only 3 strokes behind Loras College. The Grinnell freshman team opens its season next Wednes- day against Coe and Cornell at the Grinnell course. The longest nine~inning major league game was a four hour and 52 minute playoff marathon between the San Francisco Gi- ams and the Los Angelee Dod- gers on Oct. 2, 1962. The Bed gel-s won, s7. Friday. April 24. 1964 Thinclads Travel to Drake Relays; Defend 880 and Mile-Relay Titles By Pete Koliman The Grinnell track team travels to Des Moines this weekend to enter the Drake Re- lays. The Pioneer contingent will enter in fiVe of the relays: the 440, 880, mile, twodnile, sprint medley and distance medley. This past weekend, the team was split into groups, one of which traveled to the Kansas Relays and the other which took part in the Dickinson re- lays in Cedar Falls. At Kansas, 2 mile relay squad, consisting of Dewitt. Langham, TePaske and Beck- ord placed sixth with a time of 3225.2, following their 323.2 ef- fort in the time trials. Sutton, Langham, TePaske and Beck— ord, placing fifth, set a new school record in the two-mile relay, covering the distance in 7252.4, breaking last year's rec» 0rd of 7:53.7 set by Morrain, Sutton, Langham and Beckiord. In the distance medley, Sutton, Langham, TePaske and Beck- iord, pulled out a third place with a time of 10:27.3. At SCI, only pop placers were Ron Schachel, with a fourth in the 100, and the freshman sprint medley team of Watt, Faxon, Hill and Brintnall managing a third with a time of 32403. 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