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Track Team Bows In Indian Relays

By STEVE GASKE

Over the weekend the
University track team traveled
to Williamsburg to take part in
the Indain Relays, sponsored
by William and Mary College.

Always a tough team,
William and Mary proved to be
the class of the meet as the
hosts ran off with the two
major relays.

In the two-mile relay, W&M
outdistanced the field en route
to a 7:57 win. Temple finished
second, followed by the
Cavalier quartet.

Jim Wood, Mike Pace, Tom
Polonsky and Gerry Hart
turned in a time of 8:06 that
Coach Lou Onesty described as
"good, considering our boys
weren't used to the track." A
tartan track with 12 laps to the
mile and no bank, the W&M
track was difficult to adjust to.

Obviously having no
problems adjusting to their
own track, the Indians came
back to win the mile relay.
Virginia, with Sam Jesse,
Gordon Littig, Beecher Hasley
and team co-captian Julian
Solotorovsky finished third in
its heat.

The other Cavalier
co-captain, Phil Meyer, was
several hundred miles away in
his hometown of Lexington,
Ky. taking part in the
Mason–Dixon meet. "It was
near to his home and I'd rather
have him run against the really
good competition and lose
than run in this meet and win,"
was given as the reason by Mr.
Onesty from Meyer not
accompanying the team to
Williamsburg.

At Lexington, Meyer got all
the top rate competition he
could handle as he finished in
9:05, 39 seconds behind the
leaders after leading for almost
the first mile and a half.

Tom Freshwater, a
first–year triple jumper for the
University, stepped ably into
the footsteps of the departed
Keith Witherspoon as he lost a
one inch heart-breaker to
Maryland's Mike Goldwatch.

A 49 foot jumper,
Freshwater jumper 48 feet
only to edged by Goldwatch's
48' 1".

Last year's outstanding
performer in the ACC
Championship, Kent Merritt
finished fourth in the 50.