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Portentous Thinclads Open
Spring Season In High Hopes

By Mike DeCamps
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

A year from next Monday
Virginia trackmen will set foot (or
should we say feet) on their new 9
lane tartan track for their first dual
meet to be run over the long
awaited facility. But next Monday
you can find the Virginia cindermen
opening their season, and their
last season, at Lambeth Field, the
University's hoary relic.

The Cavalier trackmen's last
season over the dust and dirt of
Lambeth should be a good one.
Boasting top conference contenders
in the shot put and broad jump
along with a very competitive
contingency in the middle and
distance events, the team will face a
schedule of six dual meets with
numerous relays on the weekends.

The field events will pose an
unusual contrast for Coaches Holdren
and Onesty. In two events the
Cavaliers have two possible ACC
champions come conference meet
time in May. Al Sinesky, far and
away the best shot-putter the
Cavaliers have ever had is coming
off an outstanding indoor season in
which he finished second in the
conference indoor meet after working
hard on lowering the trajectory
of his throw. His efforts have paid
off so far with a fifty-five foot plus
throw.

Jim Shannon, trying hard to
succeed last year's outstanding
broad-jumper and co-captain, Mike
Harvey, is proving very capable
with consistent jumps around
twenty-three feet. Shannon is the
ACC indoor champ in his event.

Other field events may pose the
major problems for the coaches
though. In the discus the team will
be all right if Mike Wilkes competes,
and it appears he will. Wilkes
was a consistent winner last year,
and is a top contender in the javelin
also.

In the high jump though, no one
has emerged as a promising winner
to take the place of last year's
co-captain George Hawkins. Nat
Lucas and Bill Davis both jump
around six feet, but it may take
more to win consistently. The pole
vault was the Cavalier's weakest
event during the indoor season, and
it remains doubtful that the cindermen
can score well in this event.

Mike Heagle, Eddie Campbell,
and Dave Smith will be doing the
hurdling for the team. Heagle is
looking better this year than last
when he scored consistently in the
highs.

In the running events, the higher
they go the better they get. The
100 yard dash will be the weak
point. The coaches may be forced
to put Johnny Morris in this event
as well as the 220 because of the
abundance of 440 men. Morris is
the best of the quarter-milers.

Dick Morris, after a very good
indoor season, will probably win
often in the 440. He will be backed
by Bob Niles, Louis Mackle, and
Julian Solotorovsky. In the half mile,
Jerry Hart, Brew Barron, and
Greg Lane will be counted on to
score often. This trio will also run
the mile along with Frank Andrew.
Lane is pushing the 4:20 mark as
the season opens, and is counted on
for much better by the end.

Rick Katz and Phil Meyer have
had outstanding indoor seasons and
should lower the two mile record
easily and, hopefully, score well in
the relays. The mile-relay team will
of course be strong with the
abundance of quarter-milers.

All in all depth is much better in
the running events than ever before,
and when the conference gets
together in May, the Cavaliers could
do a lot of surprising.