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...doing everything wrong," he said, "there's bound to be somebody else who can go 17 ft. 6 in. It's all in the fiber-glass pole." Like most top vaulters of the fiberglass pole era, Sternberg was as much a gymnast as a trackman. He worked out regularly on a trampoline to improve his balance and body control, was rated one of the ten best trampoline men in the country. One day last week, he was tuning up for the U.S.-Russian track meet in Moscow late this month by performing a complicated trampoline maneuver called...
Walker, a former freshman trackman, came home first in the 120 yard low hurdles and tied with basketball player Lenny Strauss of Adams for the high jump title...
...Awori garners his triple, he will become the first trackman in Madison Square Garden history to accomplish such a feat. Only one man has ever before scored dash-hurdles double in the Garden. This was Hayes Jones in the 1960 New York Athletic Club meet...
...start of last week's four mile N.C.A.A. Cross-Country Championships were well insulated against the cold: they wore stocking caps, ear muffs and sweat shirts. Some even wore socks over their hands. Not Oregon State's hardy Dale Story, 19. Barefoot, dressed only in lightweight trackman's skivvies, he explained: "I like the natural feel." Added Story's coach, Sam Bell: "It's part of Dale's toughening process. He feels that if he is tough this way, he will be tough in other ways...
Hoblitzell made a big name for himself in high school as a trackman and golfer. (He still plays in the mid-70s.) After West Virginia University ('34), he turned to the insurance and real-estate business in Parkersburg, his home town, is now a banker in Ravenswood and a leading light in educational affairs (onetime president, state School Board Association; member, White House Conference on Education). A bundle of energy in politics, he won his biggest political fame when he helped Underwood into office, his biggest reward when he was made boss of West Virginia's thriving G.O.P...