 | The Cavalier daily. Tuesday, March 4, 1969 |  |
Terps Win Indoor Meet
It was snowing hard in Chapel
Hill Friday night. In fact it was
snowing Saturday morning, afternoon,
and night too. But it
probably would have taken ten feet
of snow and snowshoes tacked to
every Maryland runner's feet to
slow down the Terp track team.
Saturday night, the Terrapins,
possibly the strongest college track
team in the East, accumulated
103½ points to completely snowball
the rest of the Atlantic Coast
Conference's truck teams. In doing
so, Maryland took the indoor meet
for the fourteenth straight year,
and lost but three first places
among the twelve events.
The day started on a more than
auspicious note when John Hanley,
a former Hargrave Military Academy
strong boy, tossed the shot 57′
8½″ to establish a new conference
indoor record for the Maryland
powerhouse. Charles Dresher, w
hose previous best had been 51
managed a 54′ 8″ put to give the
Terps a one-two finish. Al Sinesky
scored Virginia's first points of the
day with a third place finish at 52′
2½″.
At the same time, the Terrapin's
Eliott Garrett was overcoming the
Cavalier's Mike Harvey in the broad
jump with a leap of 24′ 2″. Harvey,
the defending champion in the
event, went 23′ 8″, and appeared to
have the victory until Garrett's last
jump. Jim Shannon of Virginia
captured fifth place with a 22′ 7″
jump.
Maryland also swept to a one-two
finish in the high jump with
Joe David establishing a new meet
record at 6′ 10¼″ narrowly missing
7′ in three tries. Thomas Smith of
Maryland cleared 14′ 6″ on his last
try to take first in the pole vault.
North Carolina's Archie Hicks was
second.
The night time running events
run over a loosely constructed
wood planked track began with the
home standing Tar Heels taking
their only first place of the day
when Kent Autry anchored the two
mile relay team to a narrow victory
over fast closing Clemson. The
winning time of 7:49.4 eclipsed the
old mark of 7:51.6 held (to no
one's surprise) by Maryland.
South Carolina's Bob Kaczka,
running by far the best planned
race of the night, came from
twenty yards back on the last lap to
edge out Jim Meechan of North
Carolina in the 1000 yard run.
Maryland's John Baker took the
featured Weil Mile Trophy by far
outdistancing the rest of the field in
a time of 4:07.3. In doing so Baker
ran the second half mile in the race
in 2:02.
Duke's Jeff Howser managed to
psyche the rest of the field out
before the start of the 60 yard high
hurdles by warming up in his U.S.
Olympic Track Team t-shirt. The
rest of the field, adequately dazzled,
trailed. Howser as he breezed
to an easy victory in 7.2 seconds.
George Wojtech, running in first
place all the way, took the 600
yard dash for Maryland. Virginia's
John Morris, running out of the
fifth lane, took third place in
1:13.8.
The conference's outstanding
sprinter, Roland Merritt of Maryland,
won the 60 in 6.3 seconds
The Terrapins also captured the
two mile run, with Russ Taintor
running a smooth 9:00.8. Duke's
Ed Stenburg, the defending
pion closed fast, but could not
catch Taintor.
The final summary: Maryland
103½, UNC 27½, Duke 19, South
Carolina 16, Clemson 13, Virginia
11, N. C. State 2, Wake Forest 0.
| The Cavalier daily. Tuesday, March 4, 1969 | |