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Show In Jim Murray Newspaper 3 V X I 1 1.4 (DIPUS Mmiiriraiy nim gpgprtte Beamon's longjump record may be in jeopardy Page Bl Thursday, August 26, 1982 i. Yy .... C Tina" ,- y Even in Utah Arnie has his Army Clockwise from top: Arnold Ar-nold Palmer tees off. Gay Brewer putts one into the hole. During a practice round, Palmer is joined, as usual, by Arnie's Army (he's the third to the left of golf cart in foreground). Jeremy's Jere-my's new clubhouse is ready to serve the golfers. photos by David Hampshire You didn't need any special spe-cial talent to find Arnold Palmer during Tuesday's practice round at the Jeremy Ranch. You could spot him from the clubhouse. To be truthful, it was impossible to spot Arnold himself. But you knew that he was there somewhere, surrounded by a throng of admirers which reacted to his every move like Secret Service agents to a President. Presi-dent. Even in Utah, rarely touched by the professional tour, Arnie has his Army. Since Billy Casper is a Utah resident and a well-known well-known golfer in his own right, you'd expect a fair-sized fair-sized crowd in his wake too. Casper, the guy who has one Master's jacket (1970) and two U.S. Open titles (1959 and 1966) to his name, and was twice the leading money-winner on the tour. Not so. Casper's entourage Tuesday consisted almost exclusively of his fellow golfers. The same went for Gay Brewer and Julius Boros. It's Palmer the people peo-ple have come to see. It's not just the golfing fans whom Palmer has captivated. There he was again on the Six O'clock News Tuesday on both Channel Chan-nel Two and Channel Five, discussiong the course which he and partner Ed Seay designed. He has won over the media as well. But Palmer isn't the only -iwattraction at this week's Shootout at the Jeremy Ranch. Beside Casper, Brewer Bre-wer and Boros, there is Slammin' Sammy Snead, with an incredible 84 PGA wins to his name, still going strong at 70. The list also includes most of the top money winners on this year's Seniors Tour, including Miller Barber, Bob Goalby, Gene Littler and Don January. In addition to 50 senior (50 years old or older) members of the professional tour, the first two rounds of the tournament involve 150 selected se-lected amateurs and celebrities. celebri-ties. The first round of the four-day event was held yesterday. The pro-am portion por-tion of the tournament is scheduled to wind up today with a western barbecue. The final two rounds of the tournament are due to take place Friday and Saturday. Proceeds will go to the Cottonwood Alta View Health Care Foundation and the Osmond Foundation for the Deaf. In 1921, when Babe Ruth hit 59 home runs, the most anyone else had ever hit in that league in a season was 16. In 1941, when Joe DiMaggio hit in 56 consecutive con-secutive games, the league record up to that time was 41 consecutive games. Some people break records. Others obliterate them. But, no one ever left a record more torn and bleeding by the side of the road than Bob Beamon did in Mexico City in 1968. The Olympic longjump record of that day was 26 feet 734 inches. Beamon broke it by 2l 2 feet. He broke the world record by nearly two feet. The sports world filed Beamon's feat in the records-that-will-never-be-broken category with the asterisk after it "At-least til-the-Olympies-are-again-at-7,500-feet." You see, the longjump record was usually broken only in increments of inches. A jumper, jum-per, A.L. Gutterson, had come within three-quarters three-quarters of an inch of 25 feet in the 1912 Olympics, and the record didn't go over 25 feet till 16 years later. Jesse Owens broke that by a foot in 1936 with 26-5U. It went back below 26 again for 24 years till Ralph Boston set the Olympic mark of 26-734 in 1960. Well, Ruth was to break his own "unbreakable" "un-breakable" record with 60 home runs in 1927 and Roger Maris was to break that with 61 home runs in 1961. But no one has come close to DiMaggio's record or Bob Beamon's. It was not until the 1980 Olympics that anyone was even to jump over 28 feet. But, there are rumblings on the horizon. Carl Louis is a man who couldn't make up his mind whether he wanted to be the "world's fastest human" or "world's second-longest second-longest jumper" for years. The problem was, Carl could run faster than just about anybody around. But he wasn't even sure which way to jump up or out. He could jump 28 feet one way, and seven feet high the other. Bob Beamon had cast such a shadow over his event that it was the anti-climax division of track-and-field. No matter what you did, you were coming in second. Or, you were patronized as "the sea-level champion." Carl Louis became the first man since Jesse Owens to double seriously in both sprints and the jump. Like Owens, he was often of-ten good enough to win both. At the NCAA, for example. Or the TAC. But when Carl got defeated, it was always in the dasher, never in the pits. So, Carl, who became known as the "Jer sey Bounce," incorporated his sprinter's speed in the more technical jumping event Carl Louis takes a longer runway to lift off than a loaded Boeing 747. Carl, as a matter of fact, almost takes off in the seats. His run is 164 feet, six inches. So, first, he sets the 50 yard dash record, then goes after the longjump. He is usually running a 9.2 hundred hun-dred by the time he gets airborne. He tries for a 22-degree angle with the ground, his feet churning furiously not more than 3'2 feet above the pit, before he settles in for a landing. lan-ding. Some guys come into the longjump pit like a guy falling out of an airplane. Louis comes in like a guy busting through a plate glass window, or a guy shot out of a cannon. The sheer velocity of his takeoff is such that the first 25 feet are sheer momentum. He'd have to hit a door to stop. Still, track buffs were less than enthusiastic en-thusiastic at I)uis' sticking to sprinting. "Babe Ruth had to give up pitching, didn't he?" they grumbled. When Carl Louis jumped 28-9 at Indianapolis In-dianapolis last month and had a foul jump of over 30 feet the purists really closed ranks. No longer was this "sea-level" stuff Beamon's stupifying record was within reach for the first time. You see, while track-and-fielders hailed the Beamon comet jump, it was no set. wherever they gathered, it was an annoyance annoyan-ce to them. They considered it an unconscionable uncon-scionable aberration, and pointed to the fact Beamon never even jumped 27 feet again. "Man, you killed our event," other longjum-pers longjum-pers used to groan to Beamon as track promoters, always on the spur of world records, often cancelled the longjump loathe to have a "meet record" a good two feet shorter than the world record. Carl Louis wasn't listening. He wants to be the only man in history besides Owens to win the sprint and the longjump in the same Olympics. "The events are staggered enough so it's possible," he explained the other day. But, these are different times, the experts insist. Are they? Jesse Owens' time in the hundred in 1936 would have won every Olympic Olym-pic up to 1960 and would have been five lOOths of a second off the last Olympics. His longjump would have won up to 1960, as well. Carl Louis, in short, thinks he can break two "unbreakable" records at Los Angeles in 1984, Beamon's and Owens'. Now, that may really be an unbreakable record. (c) 1982, Los Angeles Times Syndicate Weekend- ylJk All Stores! 1 f J r Ij w - t r i r "DISTINCTION IN INTERIOR DESIGN" "N 5th Anniversary SALE August thru November 20 OFF on all custom draperies IMPORTED LACE TERGAL SHEERS ROMAN SHADES S WA GS & CA SCA DES, E TC Call us or come in for your personalized consultation N A 2182 Highland Dr. 487-5975 SLCUT 84106 |