Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-21
SPOTLIGHT
ON
SPORTS
From Borbed Wire to Track
By BILL FUCHS

CAPT FRANK COPELAND who spent all but three days
of World looking out from behind the barbed wire
of Japanese prison currently engrossed in of
the enjoyable of his tasks in his Is years in the Marine
Corps
The captain as special officer at the sprawling
Quanco base wrapped up the Corps Schools
Relays April and From humble idea in the mind of
Rosandtch the relays suddenly have grown into
the biggest field extravaganza put in this
area.
You know about Christmas basketball tournament"
Capt Copeland says We'll Tom track COACH thought it
would be nice to put little track meet the same
basis We figured we'd have about 10 or is schools competing
The Idea snowballed Rosanditch former Wisconsin
hurde tossed his little idea around at the IC4A champion
ships last The response astounding On last count
toalo 81 schools including all of the Big Ten institutes
the Ivy League and the strong independents had mailed
their wishes to enter.
THE MARINES ARE making gigantic preparations for
the big invasion The athletes will be given full week of
practice the They'll be housed in military type
barracks and fed like champions Charles Ornstein general
manager of the Abbe Hotel chain which includes the Para
mount in New York and the Willard here will arrive the
base month to muscle building eating
AS food director for the United States Olympic team Ornsen
is we'll versed in Galleries and vitamns.
The action Butler Stadium has seating capacity
Of 10000 ideal layout for track and field large
open space adjacent the track will afford all those attend
ing wonderful view of the javen, discus shot put and
other events at the time the doing their
stuff.
Teevision cameras will be hand relay of the
Nation All details been worked
yet Capt Copeland that of the
days program probably will get the fuscae teevison
treatment.
NAME ATHLETES? YOU them Ernie Shelton,
Delaney, Dave Slime Joel Shanke Bob Richards Horace
Ashenfelter-theyll all this big pre-Oympc
show with Olympic favor. Rosandtch has included
Olympictype decahlon and steeplechase
enfeer will in the latter event He had his biggest
moment in the 3O00-meter when he upset Rusas
vladimir Kazantsev in the 1852 Olympics
1.-THE dates natural" Rosanditch says eve sent out
missionaries the different schools than 90
per cent of them indicated preference for those dates It's
the Eastern vacation period and nothing else is going
couple of the Birmingham Relays and the North
Carolina Relays held then but they don't have them
any
AT first" Rosandtch says, Il wanted annual meet
like the Christmas basketball tournament 1t has gotten
big we'll have to sit back take long look at it, If
it's worth while may go ahead and make it annual
affair"
COPELAND SAYS HE likes being associated with ath-
lecs But he dreamed there such duty when he
was a struggling corporal on Guam and later POW.
Il captured Guam December TO- three days
after the started he Il prisoner for three
years. eight months and two days went from l74 pounds
to ITO and burned out of three prison camps by
But when took Guam back had two brothers, both
Marines making the first landings One infantry and
the other tank and neither knew the other there until
it all OF didn't find out about it until
much later. But 1t of satisfaction. Real
satisfaction"