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Show v . 13 . The Salt Lake Tribune, Tuesday, April 4, 1861 This Is Ridiculous -- W i .h Wind Fools Everyone Tankmen Stun Timers Masters Stars Nominate Sleepers - 3-- When BY TH4T same standard the national swimming championships of the Amateur Athletic Union at Yale over the last weekend were utterly ridiculous. Every post Olympic year produces a letdown as old stars lose Incentive and the new crop has not started to gather strength. But In the magnificent Payne Whitney Natatorium at Yale the greatest of all swimming championships left stunned sports followers gasping for breath in every one of the 17 short course events, most of them bordering on the incredible or the ridiculous. When 17 year old Steve Clark drove into the end wall at the finish of the classic free-stylMike Peppe snapped his stopwatch and then stared bug eyed at it 100-yar- d I cant believe It, said the Ohio State coach. Something must be wrong with my w atch. All over the hall other timers were reacting the same way, so distrustful of their chronometers that some were almost ashamed to report their findings and risk being laughed to scorn. Either there was a mass breakdown of all timing devices or else this phenomenal schoolboy from Los Altos in California swam the century in 46 8. This is the equivalent of a foot racer sprinting 100 yards in under 9 seconds. Its as unlikely as a 16 foot pole vault and as impossible as an 8 foot high ... BECAUSE NOT ALL sports followers are familiar with aquatic clockings, a bit of back ground information might put this achievement into propor focus. For the better part Olympics last year, though, that high indignities were administered to the once sacred Weissmuller mark. Young Clark, then only 16, did 48 8 In a heat He clirobeid from the tank and stretched out on the deck for 15 minutes, too exhausted to stir.' In the finale he was a weary fifth. But the winner was Jeff Farrell in 48.2, the fastest century in history. of two decades Johnny Weismullers world record of 51 seconds had remained untouched, standing alone in solitary majesty. Then Alan Ford of Yale nibbled at it and drove it down to 49.7. Eight years later it went to 49 2 and finally to 48 9. It . was during the rush to the Rome BIGGER, OLDER and stronger, Clark not only swam his 46.8 in Saturday but he covered the first 50 yeards in 21.7. As recently as a year ago that would have been a record for the 50. Yet he did it while en route. He had to go at that giddy clip because Mike Austin, a Yale freshman, was caught in 47.8 as the first three men in the final went under Farrells old mark. Three years before the next Olympics in Tokyo, the U.S. has produced a virtually new group of enormously talented youths who are better and faster than the team which dominated the international show at Rome. Will this record breaking ever end? NO, BLUNTLY says Bob Kiphuth of Yale, the elder statesman of American swimming. Weve hardly started. I shudder when I think how crude we were when I first began coaching. A century sprinter was taught to coast between 50 and 75 yards, sprinting only at the start and finish. Now we have the 220 as a sprint all the way, including the flip turns The 440 will come next and I expect that the 1,500 meter event will become one long sprint. We have more pools, more swimmers more expert coaching and more of everything. Great as were the performances at the nationals I can see room for improvement At most there were no more than 5 per cent whose form was perfect. Once the boys got tired late in the 220 or 440 the flaws became apparent. What they all need most are summers of training in the 50 meter or Olympic-siz- Reservations must be made by Friday noon, Nelson said, so that lodge officials can plan eating schedules. A registration fee of $10 per person will be charged. This will include lunch, social hour, banquet, night's lodging Saturday and breakfast Sunday for all certified delegates. OTHERS expected at the confab will be committee chairmen, board of directors and ISA officers. All committee chairmen will give reports and a season ski schedule will be set up. g ? YV -- ' 'jA e . f I Ben Hogan . . . Wind might aid the old golf master. that GO along with,. Venturi its anybodys guess with the wind blowing as it is now, agreed Mike Souchak. The wind favors the long hitters, but theres no one jn this field who is so much superior in the wind that he would rate as a standout favorite. Arnold Palmer isnt a bad wind player and neither is Doug Sanders, Souchak continued. All these fellows know how to play the wind to some extent or else they wouldnt be here. Who knows? Hogan could get hot and surprise everyone or even young Nick-laumight. disagreed with Hogan and told him so, , , I think you've got more than Just a slim chance, .he said." f YOUR .PUTTER suddenly looks alive. Youve got the freest looking puffing stroke Ive seen you have in years. You could win this thing." the way it is," he said, a long, straight driver has half the battle won. If that same fellow does, well on the greens, he could wrap if up." hitNieklaus, the long-bal- l ting Ohio State senior who impressed everyone with his play at the Masters last 'year before finishing with a 293 total H strokes off the 282 posted by winner Arnold Palmer has been shooting well again lately and doesnt seem too disturbed by the capricious gusts of - Hogan merely smiled. Dont get me wrong, he said to Smith, I dbnt have a defeatist attitude. 1 believe in facing the facts, though. wind, You talk about my putting, but Some of those young Ill need more than that -Former U.S. Open champion kids arent bothered by any Ed Furgol pointed out that thing, grinned Souchak. the eventual Rasters winner That wind can give anywont need too much more one plenty of trouble, than his driver and putter. though. i VVITH THIS wind Jackie Burke and I came blowing if' pools. . . Amateur marbles. up to the 12th hole and the wind was blowing up a storm. He took a five-iroami was over the green. I went for a and 'Just as-- I hit the ball, the wind caught hold of it and blew it into th water. The wind has been so strong at tim'es that each of the players in a single foursome have used different clubs off the same tee. n six-iro- n HOW ARE you going to figure It? Furgol asked. The velocity changes so often within a period that you cant be sure whether to use a four-iroa five of a six. The wind even affects I your putting." Virtually all the entrants hoped the wind would die down by the time .the first round starts Thursday. five-minu- $33.60or plus tax ' your travol agent west cansr nmunas Call DAvis a The Hawk isnt overly optimistic about beating competitors who are as much as 29 years his junior. I guess Ive got a chance, he conceded, "but its a mighty slim one and that's all. I haven't played enough ' Horton Smith, one of the past winners of the Masters who Is back for another try, nri psychologically, he said. Was there a secret to his success He shook his head. Its hard work, he answered. As far as Fm concerned, the pool isnt filled with water but with sweat. Maybe, () given examinations Friday at pm. in Room 323 of the University of Utahs Union Building The exams are open to any interested official who wants to get an ISA rating. The tests will be based most ly on the National Ski Assn, rulebook of 1960 with some of the questions coming from the International Ski Federation rulebook. A fee of $2 50 will help defray costs of the test 7:30 Galendesprung Contest The first galendesprung EZ Coming Contest Big Game In Pro Series con- Both BOSTON, April 3 the defending champion Celtics and the challenging St Louis Hawks consider Wednesdays gamp at Boston Garden the key contest of their National Basketball Assn title series. test ever held in the Wasatch will be conducted Sunday at 2 pm. near the bottom of Rustlers at Alta. The tourney, a miniature jumping tournament, will lure the top skiers in the Salt Lake area, Keith Lange, one of the officials said Monday. Trophies will be awarded for distance and form, Lange said. 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The one that the Australians, Europeans and Japanese will find most incomprehensible will be Chet Jastremskis breaking of a minute for the 100 yard breaststroke." To American worshippers of speed, though, the top job was Clarks 468 for the hundred He shaved every hair from his body and his head looked as though it belonged to a sammurai warrior. Did the shaving help any? ISA Confab Will Draw Race Slate for Season Special to The Tribune d e Ski Roundup ALTA The 1961 62 ski race schedule for the Intermountain Ski Assn, will be set up here Saturday when the ISA holds its annual convention in Peruvian Lodge. The confab will begin at 8 am. with registration. Business sessions are scheduled at 10 a m , according to Stan Nelson, ISA president. 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