Word: pole-vault
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Another heralded confrontation of champions will not come off: the long-awaited pole-vault duel between Bob Seagren of the U.S. and Sweden's Kjell Isakkson, who failed to qualify for the final because of a leg injury. Seagren had his problems even without Isakkson's competition. His and his teammates' new poles were confiscated the night before the trials started on the grounds that they were too sophisticated for Olympic competition. Thus the handsome young Californian had to qualify with a pole he had previously abandoned. In other track and field events, the U.S. will be below its traditional...
...pleasant afternoon in Los Angeles last week, Bob Seagren walked out onto the track, chatted amiably with his competitors and with A.A.U. officials, and then proceeded to win the pole-vault event. His best jump of 17 ft. 4 in. was not really much of an accomplishment for Seagren; he is co-holder with Sweden's Kjell Isaksson of the world's record of 18 ft. 4¼ in. set in El Paso, Texas, in May. But without top competition, Seagren explains, he can't reach the psychological plateau necessary to crack 18 ft. "In practice, even...
...Baskauskas and Jim Coleman will high jump, and freshman Ed Skane will pole-vault. However, a Harvard victory is unlikely in these events, since the competition grossly outclasses the Crimson jumpers...
...Pied Piper of physical fitness" is how he styles himself, but the man of Hamelin could never hold a flute to the Rev. Bob Richards. At 43, the former Olympic pole-vault champ and Wheaties pitchman is jogging and biking 3,000 miles across the U.S. in a one-man campaign "to get Americans off their duffs," as he puts it, and impress upon them the need for health-giving exercise. Last week, having already swum the turbulent Colorado River and trotted across the Rocky Mountains, he was in Indiana, heading relentlessly eastward toward New York. "At every stop," says...
...Californian, Jim Hines, tied the world mark of 10 sec. flat in the 100-meter dash. Army SP/4 Tom Farrell ran one of the fastest 800 me ters of the year when he was clocked in 1 min. 46.5 sec. And California's Bob Seagren soared over the pole-vault bar at 17 ft. 9 in. to break the world record...