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Maryland Favored

Thinclads In ACC Meet

By Mike DeCamps
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

It's ACC meet time for the
Cavalier track team, but there is a
distinctly different air about the
squad as they prepare for the two
day affair in Raleigh this weekend.

Time used to be when the
Cavaliers, the annual doormat of
the Conference, would roll into the
Conference Meet not expecting to
score more than a total of ten
points. This year they will most
likely be reckoned with in a
number of events before the last
finish tape is broken Saturday
night.

Maryland is the overwhelming
favorite, although the Terrapins are
not invincible as proven last weekend
when Tennessee ran over the
93-52. But there does not
appear to be any team of the
stature of Tennessee in the conference
meet, and Maryland once
again should reign supreme Saturday
night.

Closest challenger would appear
to be Clemson on the strength of its
running, but North Carolina is
strong in the field. Past this it's
anybody's ball game. Duke and
South Carolina have strong
sprinters and middle-distance men,
and the Cavaliers have two outstanding
field event men and good
middle distance runners.

Maryland has outstanding performers
in every field event and
could conceivably win every one.
The only competitor that leads an
event other than a Maryland boy is
the Cavaliers' Jim Shannon in the
long jump. Shannon's conference
leading jump is 23′10″.

Maryland's Jack Bacon has a
good chance to smash the conference
javelin record. His 260′ plus
throw is way over the record
253′9″. A record setting performance
could also come from the
Terps' Jack Hanley who has thrown
a 59′6″ best compared to the
conference 58′8½″ record. Virginia's
Al Sinesky will be a threat
for a high place.

In the four remaining field
events, Maryland and North Carolina
will have a dog fight. Terrapian
performers lead in the discus,
javelin, pole vault and triple jump,
but Carolina performers rank second
in each. In the pole vault
Maryland has the NCAA indoor
champion in Buddy Williamson.

Wake Forest, now the doormat
of the Conference, will have one
outstanding sprinter in Jack Dolbin
who ranks first in both the hundred
and 220. His chances appear much
better in the hundred than the 220
where a number of sprinters could
win.

Virginia could score well in the
440. Terry Sellers of UNC will be
the defending champion but
Johnny Morris, who anchored the
mile relay with a 47.3 in the state
meet could dethrone Sellers. Dickie
Morris and Julian Solotorovsky
could also score points here.

In the half Virginia will try to
qualify a host of runners, but the
competition will be fierce. Bob
Kaczka of South Carolina should
take this event. Kaczka anchored
the USC spring medley that took
third in the Penn Relays.

The mile should go to Maryland's
John Baker, who is far and
away the class of the conference in
this event. In the two miles
Maryland has another classy distance
runner in Russ Taintor who
has been clocked in 8:46 this year.
Rick Katz and Phil Meyer have
shots at points, but they will
require outstanding efforts.

Maryland's Marshall Bush is the
outstanding performer in the highs,
having anchored his team to victory
in the shuttle hurdle relay at Penn.
The intermediates will be a toss up
with Clemson's Mac Copeland the
leading contender.

Virginia has a good chance at a
high place in the mile relay. The
Cavaliers will be shooting to break
the school record, 3:16.2. South
Carolina will also be a leading
contender in this event. The Gamecocks
have a best of sub 3:16.