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Lynchburg Track Pair Pace
Cavaliers In Successful Year

By Steve Giannini
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Quarter miler John Morris and
broad jumper Mike Harvey are
two athletes who typify a young
spirited team who at 4-2 has won
more meets this year than in the
past three years. Both are products
of E. C. Glass High in
Lynchburg.

Third-year man Mike Harvey is
currently listed in the top 11 long
jumpers in the nation. Last weekend
in the Carolina Relays at
Chapel Hill, Harvey set a meet
record, field record, school record
and above all a new ACC standard.
Three of his jumps were over
24 feet and the winning leap measured
a career high of 24′ 8″.

The day before Harvey had been
in Philadelphia with Coach Jim
Alderman to compete in the Penn
Relays. It was not a particularly
good performance for the jumper
as he fouled on 4 of his 6 attempts.
The fouls were coming
very close to 25 feet, but the official
best was 23′ 11 1/2″. On
the very last jump the tape measured
25′ 3″ with a foul of about
an inch. The good jump was worth
fifth place however in a very
prestigious meet.

Under more pressure in tight
competition, Coach Lou Onesty
feels he will lose this tendency
to continuously foul. The hardworking
Chemistry major has been
setting his own work-out schedule
and pace. Last November in Knoxville,
Tennessee, Harvey got a
chance to talk to perhaps the best
long jumper in the nation, Ralph
Boston.

Boston discouraged Harvey in
the triple jump and told him to
stick to long jumping, and gave
him some winter weight lifting exercises
to work on. Harvey has
been doing the exercises since
that time and has felt that it
definitely helped him improve his
performances.

A slight disadvantage Harvey
has is his age. He is only 19
and he has been jumping against
competitors as old as 23 or 24
who consequently often have more
strength and form. Time should
bring the maturity to remedy that.

First-year man John Morris has
proved himself to be a fierce
competitor with a desire to win.
While attending E. C. Glass Morris
set the Virginia High School record
in the 440 at 49.5 seconds.
It is interesting to note that John's
younger brother Dick finished right
behind him in the record run. Today
Coach Lou Onesty is signing
Dick Morris to run for the University.

Running in his first college dual
meet competition Morris' time was
about 50 flat. Since then the young
team leader has consistently
brought his time down and has
yet to be beaten in the open
440. Right now his time of 48.9,
seconds is listed as the best in
the ACC.

In the dual meet with Duke,
Coach Onesty put Morris in the
220 to see what would happen.
After Peter Pettit was disqualified,
Morris had won the event in 22.3
seconds around a curve.

With John Morris having times
good enough to seed him in both
the 220 and 440 and Mike Harvey
in the long jump and possibly
the triple jump, it looks like a
couple of Cavalier individual performers
will be in the thick of
ACC competition with athletes
from such outstanding track
powers as Maryland and UNC.