Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-30
First Seven-FootHigh Jump
Made in Olympic Tryouts
Davis Skaters
Hurdles Record;
Sine Reinjured

LOS ANGELES, June 80 up.
The first 7-foot high Jump in
history-a feat comparable to
the 4-minute mile-and a world
record in the 400-meter hurdles
point UP predictions that the
United States will have an Olym-
pic track and field team that will
be its strongest in history.
Charley Dumas, a 19-year-old
Negro freshman at Compton
Junior College in California,
broke the world high Jump rec
ord with Z feet. q inch in last
nights start of the final Olympic
team tryoutS.
Glenn Davis, Ohio State soph-
omore, smashed the Soviet-held
400-meter hurdles record with a
49,5 seconds clocking.
Eight events were held in final
Olympic trials at the Coliseum
last night and only one failed to
produce a record Of one type or
another. More are expected in
today's final nine events.
(Today's program will be
televised in color and black
and white over Station WRC-
TV, Channel 4, from. S pm.
to Z pm, with Jim Simpson
at the microphone.)
There was a heartbreaker in
last nights events, though, when
Dave Sine of Duke, the sprint
sensation who twice has tied the
world 100-yard dash record and
broken the 220-yard record,
pulled up lame early in his 100
meter heat. 1t was a recurrence
Of the groin muscle pull that
shelved him in the NCAA 200
meter sprint two weeks ago, and
with it his Olympic hopes went
glimmering.
Set Schoolboy Mark
Dumas. a 6-foot-1, 179-pound
native of Tulsa, OKLA, bettered
the world record set by Walt
Davis of Texas AIM at 6-foot-
liz in 1853. His leap, in
cidentally, will go into the books
at 7 feet l2-inch. as eights-of-
an-inch do not count.
Dumas best previous mark
was 6-foot-10 at Bakersfield.
Calf, last week in the Ma
tional AAU championships. In
high school he set the national
record of 6-foot-934. After
breaking the record last night,
he didn't try for anything
higher. II was too glad to do
better" he said.
The hurdles record Davis broke
was the 50.4 held by Yuriy
ILituyev of Russia. Eddie South
ern, the University of Texas
Ifresman, who finished second.
also came under the world mark
with a time of 497 and third
place Josh Culbreath Of the Ma
lrines equaled it.
Bobby Morrow. Abilene Chris
tian sprint king, won the 100
meter dash in 1913 seconds. but
! in the preliminaries he and two
others equaled the world record
time Of 1912.
The men who did it. Ira
Murchison of the Army and
Thane Baker of the Air Force.
finished second and third in the
finals. The three top finishers
in all events qualify for the
Olympic team. In addition, Lea
mon King. fourth in the 100. will
go as a probable fourth man in
the 400-meter sprint relay.
Several Stars Fail
Others in addition to Sine
who failed to make the grade
included Bud Held. world record
holder in the iavelin who fln-
ished fourth by one inch: Au-
brey Lewis, the Notre Dame 400
meter hurdler who fell over the
last barrier, and Ernie Shelton,
former national collegiate high
Jumping champion. who last
year barely missed on several
attempts at seven feet.
Oregon's Bill Dellinger broke
the American record for the
5,000-meter run with a time Of
1926 for the distance of about
81 miles. The old mark was
1929 by Fred Wilt of New
York in 1850 and the record for
this meet was 1927 by Curt
Stone in 1852. Stone was sec
Iond last night.
Parry O'Brien broke the meet
shot put mark with a toss of so
feet 10 inches. equal to his &C
Icepted world record but six
inches short of his best outdoor
throw of this year which still
awaits record recognition. Ken
Bantum. the SIS Manhattan
College giant was second at So
l634 and Bill Nieder of Kansas
third at 58-12. Both Bantum
and Nieder have best previous
throws past so feet, the only two
in the world in addition to
OBrien who have passed that
mark.
Cy Young. the 1852 Olympic
javelin champion, won the event
last night with a throw of 244
feet, ii inches, better than his
Olympic record of 242-Ia and sur
passing the 1852 meet mark Of
235-87s by Bill Miller of Arizona
State College at Tempe.
Phil Conley Of Caltech was
second at 244-l and Ben Garcia
of the Navy third at 234-5. Held
got only the alternate's spot with
a fourth-place throw Of 234-4.
AL Hall Of Cornell unleashed a
winning hammer throw OF 1877
feet. 71a inches on his final
throw He beat Cliff Blair Of
Boston University, l96-llls. and
Hal Connolly Of Boston Athletic
See OLYMPICS, Page A-13