The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 24, Ed. 1, Friday, April 7, 1961 Page: 7 of 8
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. . . has three matches lined up next week. Monday the Wildcats will play North Texas
State in Denton Wednesday they will play Arllington State in Arlington and Thursday South-
eastern Oklahoma State in Durant Okla.
. Left to right are Dwain Caffin Charles Lewis Don Avera Kent Comolli David Rix Neil
Carroll Richard McBride andBob Hunter. Carroll and Comolli and the only lettermen on
the squad. '
Relay Teams Singe Cinders
As National Record Falls
With hot-os-a-firecracker relay
teams popping off outstanding
marks in the 440-yard and one
mile relays the Abilene Christian
College track team of Coach
Oliver Jackson won the" San
Angclo nelays last Saturday.
THE NATIONAL collegiate
mile relay record was captured by
Dennis Richardson Pat McKen-
non Earl Young and Bud Clanton
as they .sped to a 3:08.0 clocking.
The old mark of 3:09.1 had stood
since 1958 when the University of
Texas set it at the Kansas Relays.
Calvin Cooley Richardson Mc-
Kennon and Young recorded a
40.1 time in the 440-yard relay
the fastest in the nation so far this
season. This broke the quartets
own record of 40.3 set last year.
ACC recorded three first places
three second places two third
places and one fourth place. The
Wildcats edged Baylor 42-30
points for the team championship.
With the mile relay fand life
pole vault remaining ACC and
Baylor were tied 30-30. But the
Cats won first in the relay and
third in the pole vault for the top
prize. "
THE ACC first were the wins
in the relays and a first place by
Cooley in the 220-yard low
hurdles. Cooky's 22.7 tied his own
record set in 1959.
In the 100-yard dash Richard-
son was edged by Ralph Alspaugh
who took first in 9.5. The- ACC
sprint medley relay won U'second
place as Southern Methodist's Jim
Parr overtook John Lawler at the
tape.
Donis Moore captured a sec-
ond place in the mile run as he
finished with a clocking of 4:20.4
Third places were won by
Cooley and Lcroy Culver. Pole
vaulter Culver cleared 13-6 and
Cooley picked up his third place
in the 120-yard high hurdles. Ray-
ford Mcllhaney put the shot 51-fl
for fourth place.
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SPORTS
WILDCATS TRY TO AVENGE
LOSSES THURSDAY FRIDAY i
The ACC Wildcats will host the
Sul Ross Lobos in two baseball
games at the Wildcat diamond
Thursday and Friday of next
week.
ACC lost two games to Sul
Ross earlier this year.
ACC' .Ties ASC
Plays Midwestern
The golf team evened Its sea-
son dual match record at 1-1-1 last
Tuesday as they tide Arlington
State College 3-3. The linksters
play Midwestern today in Wichita
Falls.
Nicky Brice who was medalist
with a 74 defeated Jerry Gil-
martin 3-1. David Duncan cap-
tured ACC's other single victory
as he defeated Bobby Joe Witcher
3-2.
Gwynncth Curtis lost to Arnold
Salinas 2-1 while Don Danner
was defeated by Phil Lumsden
4-3.
In doubles Duncan and Danner
defeated Lumsden and Witcher
2-1. Brice and Curtis lost to Gil-
martin and Salinas 2-1.
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Dick Moore is the leading Wild-
cat hitter having accounted for
four hits in five trip3.iRon Martin
has picked up three hits in six
trips for a .500 average.
Roger Dorsey has been at bat
14 times and has six hits for a .429
average. Gary McCaleb has pick-
ed us seven hits in 17 attempts
for a .412 average.
AB H Avg.
Dick Monro .. 5 4 .800
Ron Martin . C 3 .500
Roger Dorsey 14 0 .429
Gary McCaleb . 17 7 .412
Todd Miller 13 4 .308
Ray Fulenwider 17 5 .294
Joel Gilbert 17 4 .235
Jerry Herring .31 7 .220
Pat Patterson - 23 5 .217
George Ezell 20 4 .200
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"We're not going to try to break any records at the Texas
Relays" drawled famed Wildcat track mentor Oliver Jackson.
"In fact we never try to break any records. When you try for
records thats when you flub up."
Then Jackson explained "We just run to win one race
at a time and that way the records will take care of themselves."
Austin Competition Tough
Last week in San Angclo the
records did take care of them-
selves as the Purple and White
blazed to a new national collegi-
ate record in the mile relay and to
a 40.1 440 relay clocking the best
time In the nation this year.
And this week-end in Austin
the records will have an even bet-
ter chance of taking care of them-
selves as the Oats get an oppor-
tunity to run against some of the
top relay teams in the nation.
"Yes sir" continued Jackson
"the competition is going to be
rough down there. Kansas won
the Bigh Eight Indoor meet a
couple of week ago and scored
oyer 80 points doing It more
than the next three teams com-
bined! Stanford is about tops in
the distance relays and they are
going to be there Both Iowa and
Missouri are coming to the relays
and' they have strong mile relay
teams. There's nodoubt about it
the competition will be rough."
A grand total of 22 of the
strongest track powers in the
nation will battle in the univer-
sity ''division.
"We are entering five relay
teams and anytime you're entered
you -have a -chance to win" Jack-
son went on. Then the Wildcat
coach added that ACC should be
strongest in the 440 880 and mile
and possibly the sprint medley
relays. t
As one Dallas sportswriter put
it: "Abilene Christian's track
team is the fastest bunch of col-
lege kids this side of Fort Laud-
erdale." George Peterson the stocky
sprinter who finished his running
career as a Wildcat last year is
now in mortuary school in Cali-
fornia and is running for the
famed Santa Clara Youth Village
Track Club. In a dual meet with
San Jose State last week Peter-
son finished fourth behind San
Jose's Dennis Johnson as Johnson
tied tho world record of 9.3 in the
hundred. Peterson also runs the
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sprint relay teams.
Those of you who saw ACC's
four-way meet here weekend-before-last
saw what might be a
preview of things to come when
Howard Smith anchored Lincoln
Junior High's 440 relay team to
an impressive victory in the
special eighth grade relay.
Howard is the son of Air Force
Oapt. Tom Smtih an ex-Wildcat
trackster who threw the discus
and put the shot for Coach Jack-
son during the early '50's and he
"has his heart set on ACC."
Howard who is only 13 weighs
a strapping 155 pounds and is al-
ready shinning in three sports.
Besides having been clocked in a
10.5 for the hundred he is a
standout basketball player and
Lincoln Junior's star fullback last
fall. In fact one coach said that
he was one ofthe most promising
football players he had ever seen
at that age. Abilene High's head
coach Wally Bullington said that
Howard "had an extra sense as
a football player. His is one of
those smart ballplayers."
Of course it may be too early to
tell for sure but from the looks
of th'ings Howard has all the
makings of a future great.
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The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 24, Ed. 1, Friday, April 7, 1961, newspaper, April 7, 1961; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth95999/m1/7/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.