Evening star., 1955-02-12
Coaches Think
Faulty Training
HurtLast Time
Fred Dwyer Capable
Of Beating Favored
Pair in Boxter Mile
BY the Assoeioisd Press

NEW YORK. Feb. l2.-WeS
Santee. Gunnar Nielsen and
Fred Dwyer will be back on the
Madison Square Garden saucer
tonight to see if they can again
lower the worlds indoor mile
record.
Two weeks ago 1t was Santee
who dropped it to 4:05.8. Then
last Saturday Nielsen trimmed it
to 4:03.6. while Santee and
Dwyer wrestled 10 yards from
home.
Most of the coaches and ex-
pertS believe Santee will win
this one-the Baxter Mile of the
New York Athletic Club meet.
They think the talkative Kansan
hurt himself by staying around
New York before last weeks
race. For the past five days.
he has been training in Kansas
The strategy is evident. Santee
will try to keep up with Dick
(Peter Rabbit Ollen, who will
set blistering early pace. Ollen,
a Northeastern University stu
dent. says he hopes to go
through a 57-second first quar-
ter, a 1857 half and a 2::59 three
quarters. The skeptics point
out that this would be flying.
Santee Record Conscious.
Santee is a record-conscious
lad. and he makes no bones
about hoping to break Nielsens
week-old mark.
II could lay back and rest like
Nielsen and Dwyer and try out
kicking them in a slow race"
Yves said. "But the people
come to see records broken and
it's up to us to try"
Nielsen wasn't saying much
He's the king now and it's up to
Santee or Dwyer to dethrone
him. His strategy is equally
well-known. He's going to dog
Santee's steps. then try to out
kick Wes in the stretch.
Dwyer will concentrate on
racing instead of fighting and
is capable of pushing the two
in the last quarter after Ollen
has spent himself.
Nielsen admitted Ollen's pace
making wasn't to his liking, but
the Copenhagen printer shrugged
it off.
yes" he said, "it helps San
tee but hurts me. But I don't
care how fast the pace is. I'll
lust follow Santee and try to
beat him with my sprint"
Lowell zellers of Indiana is
the fifth man in the field.
Two Other Big Attractions.
There are two other events on
the program that very well could
produce new world records.
One is the 500, in which Nal
Whitfield, who holds the stand
ard of 56.6 will tangle with Viii
lanova's Charlie jenkins for the
first time. Young Jenkins has
been attracting considerable no.
tice with his feats at the middle
distances. but the 30-year-old
Whitfield says he still has to be
shown.
Audun Boysen will set his
sights on Don .Gehrmann's
2:08,2 indoor record for the
1000 yards. Boysen, who has
been in this country only two
weeks, is capable of it. He holds
the outdoor 1,000-meter mark.
Pitts Arnold Sowell will be fa-
vored in the $50, Herman Wyatt
should win the high jump and
Parry O'Brien appears cinch
in the shotput. Jack Davis is
the choice in the hurdles and
Rod Richard in the 60-yard
dash.
Maryland will be represented
in two events and Georgetown
in four. Both schools will have
teams in the two-mile relay and
two-mile handicap run. and the
Hoyas also will compete in the
shot put and pole vault.
Maryland's two-mile squad will
include Joe Hamler, Dave Leas,
Paul Hover and Burke Wilson,
while Carl Party will run in the
two-mile handicap.
Georgetown's relay team will
be made up of Vince Kelly, Bob
Lippmeier, John Peyton and Ed
Kirk. Frank Pfiagin will 60 in
the two-mile handicap, Paul
Baracelli will put the shot and
Norman Altinhof will compete
in the pole vault.