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Trackmen Beat Springfield

by Mike DeCamps
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Photo by Richard Wright

Pole Vaulter David Worrell Clears Bar In Pre-Event Warm-Up, He Later Won Event With Eleven Foot Vault

Coach Lou Onesty's Cindermen Easily Disposed Of Visiting Springfield College's Team In Meet At Lambeth Field

Virginia's track team opened
their season at Lambeth Field
yesterday afternoon and also
closed their season at Lambeth
Field - by overwhelming a Springfield
College team that came south
to work out over spring vacation,
and run two dual meets. The
Cavalier team paid a welcome
goodbye to the University's architectural
wonder, a 440 yard track
which somehow turned out to be
444 yards when it came off the
drawing board and onto Lambeth
Field.

The thinclads' two remaining
home meets have been moved to
away and thus yesterday was the
last University track meet that will
be run over Lambeth, due to the
new tartan track that will be
awaiting the team when next year's
season starts. The track yesterday
ran as most everybody had
expected - more like a beach -
and the extremely slow times made
this evident. On the whole, it
appeared the poor condition of the
track, helped by a week of rain,
hurt each runner's time on the
average of three to four seconds a
lap.

In the field events though, the
squad showed it still will need a lot
of work to be ready for Duke and
State, Jim Shannon and Al Sinesky,
the thinclads' two outstanding field
event men, won in their respective
events. Shannon took the broad
jump at 22′7″, and Sinesky threw
the shot 52′4″. David Worrell took
the pole vault at 11′ when
Springfield's "thirteen foot vaulter"
passed until twelve feet and then
proceeded to miss three times at
that height.

Springfield, though, took the
remaining four field events. Mike
Karofotis took two of them, the
triple jump at 39′11¼″, and the
high jump at 6′2″. Bruce Carlson
edged Mike Wilkes by two feet in
the discus with a 141′10″, but still
far Wilkes' best. Wilkes also took a
second in the javelin, to Steve
Healy who got off a very good
198′5″ throw.

Johnny Morris led the romp for
the Cavaliers in the running events.
Morris took firsts in both the 100
and 220. Johnny's brother, Dickie,
captured the 440 in 53.1 as he led
all the way. Brew Barron had no
trouble at all in winning the 880 in
2:04.1.

As the distances got longer, the
times got much slower. Greg Lane
took the mile in 4:37.3 and Rick
Katz the three mile in 15:27.2. In
the hurdles, Mike Heagle and Eddie
Campbell finished one-two in the
highs, and Roger Calvert, a
converted quarter-miler, took the
intermediates in 61.9, the first time

he has run a full lap with hurdles
set up.

Virginia took a slow 440 yard
relay with a 46.1 clocking, but had
to pull out of the mile relay when
Dick Morris sustained a leg injury
on the first turn of the opening leg.
The Cavaliers now go back to work
pointing for the South Carolina
Relays to be run at Columbia in the
last weekend of spring breaks

A full team will be going, with
Sinesky and Shannon counted on
for points in the field events.