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Harriers To Debut Monday

Presenting a new face, the
Virginia track team opens its dual
meet season Monday against
Springfield College. Most obvious
to everyone is the new nine-lane
tartan facility across the street from
University Hall which rates with the
best in the country, but in obvious
to many is the fact that this year's
team is good - in fact very strong
in some events.

Fans that come to see meets this
year will see the strongest field of
runners Coach Lou Onesty has ever
offered.

Leading the pack is co-captain
Johnny Morris, the best
quarter-miler ever to run at
Virginia. It is in the 440 and the
half-mile that the tracksters are
strongest and Morris will team with
the school record-holding mile-relay
team of Brew Barron, Barron's
brother, Dick, and Julian
Solotorovsky in an attempt to push
that record below 3:16.

The school record-holding
two-mile relay team (7:45) also
returns to run the half-mile. Brew
Barron has been the most
consistent and is flanked by Jerry
Hart, who clocked a 1:53 last year,
miler Greg. Lane and Mike
DeCamps.

Lane is the school record holder
in the mile at 4:15 and may also
run the steeplechase. Frank
Andrew, Jim Wood, and Mike Pace
will back him. In the higher
distances Phil Meyer, the school's
record holding three-miler returns,
and will also run the steeplechase,
an event he finished second in the
state in last year.

In the shorter runs, the Cavaliers
could be phenomenal if they could
get some help from the football
team. Kent Merritt was one of the
nation's outstanding schoolboy
sprinters at 9.4 last year, and
Harrison Davis is a multi-event man
whose specialty could be the
high-hurdles where he could easily
run 14.5 if he gets enough hurdle
work in. Mike Heagle will back
Davis up.

Ron Shorb, a 9.8 sprinter is
back after sitting out a year and
freshman Sam Jessee, 9.9, and
returnee Mike Gamble will also run
the 100. Jessee at 21.7 and Johnny
Morris will probably be the best
220 men.

Dave Peyton and Julian
Solotorovsky will handle the
intermediates. Peyton, a 49 flat
quarter miler who has hurdled in
high school, will likely be the best
intermediate hurdler the school has
had.

While the running picture is
rosy, it is in the field that the
Cavaliers will have to fight. The
long-jump and triple jump are no
problem with co-captain Jim
Shannon, probably the most
consistent in the conference in the
long jump, and freshman Fred
Gaines, a real competitor in the
triple jump already past 46 feet.

In other events the thinclads
may rely heavily on first-yearmen.
Carter Crafford and Jim McClurg
will handle the pole-vault. Crafford
has done 13′9″ in high school. Bob
Santurrl, a second-year newcomer,
was a 190′ plus javelin thrower in
high school and should provide
strength here.

Andy Jay returns to throw the
discus and will serve well here, but
the shot prospects are the dimmest.
Probably Harrison Davis will be the
best bet. In the high jump, Davis
could be great, but it is another
question of time. Nat Lucas will
help Davis out.