Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-14
WIN. LOSE OR
DNAW By FRANCIS sTANN
Uncle Sam Entertoins

IT CONES UP UNCLE SAM versus Russia in track
and field this week end at Franklin Field in Philadelphia
and Ed RoSenbm is hoping for the best for our guys and
gals. 1--WE won't have Rafer Johnson he regrets so we
may hurting the decathlon But think women
better than last year when we visited Russia"
Rosenbu who for 20 years executive director OF
the Jewish Community Center was an AAU representative
with Uncle WhSkerS track and field team last year on
tour of Russia Poland, Hungary and Greece AS mem
Der of the National AAUs Foreign Relations Committee
he will have role in the coming two-day meet
with johnson out with those INJURIES he suffered IN
his auto accident we'll have to depend q lot on Mike
Herman of New York University Ed says Russia, mean
WHILE will have Vastly Kuznetsov, who was the worlds
decathlon champion until Rafer beat him in Moscow.
"On the other hand the Russians won't have Vladimir
Kuts, who the 5000 and 10000 meters in the SO
Olympcs, or Yuri Stepanov, who high jumped over
feet. It'll be good meet"
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1T MAY BE RECALLED that when the United States
team invaded the USSR the Russkes tried to pull fast
one by combining the mems and womens scores. The
American 126109, but the Russian women out
scored the United States girls, 1914.
1.-THE Russian press attempted to hail 1t as USSR
victory on the basis of combined points, 172-170" Ed
smiles but had agreed in writing that the competitions
to be listed separate events We were upheld by
the Sports Federation of Russia.
That's the way it will be Saturday and Sunday al
though can't guarantee how it will be reported in the
Russian press"
The Russians IA strong, arrived by plane at New
Yorks dewd Airport yesterday and proceeded by bus to
NAASN' N--0
visitors will come to Washington for sightseeing and
goodwill luncheon, of which Rosenbum will be general
chairman next Tuesday
eIf all the Russians understood us, and all of us
understood the Russians well the athletes under
stand each other we'd be in pretty good shape Ed thinks
1T know trip behind the Iron Curtain last year was
revelation to me-"
THE UNITED STATES MEN WON everywhere-Ru Russia
Poland Hungary and Greece-and the women broke even
winning in the last two countries And how serious are
the Russians about track?
much more so than are" Rosenblum reports "A
meet in any of those countries draws upward Of 10000
When our party arrived in Moscow it was midnight but
there must have 400 people at the airport to greet
our and everybody who stepped on the plane was
presented with a bouquet of flowers
"For the first day of our Moscow meet, MONDAY
there were $4,000 spectators Our meet followed right on
the heels of match the previous Saturday tnat
drew $4,000 The second day it rained all day put SCu
there were over 10000 people That's when the Russians
waited for Johnson after he the decahon and were
so enthused over him that they threw him into the air
"And Poland ah, what track and field country!
The Poles really the best track athletes The RUSSIANS
are afraid of the Poles. In Warsaw they have STADIUM
that holds lot 900 people 1t was filled both days we were
there"
RosENBLUM WENT ON: "In those countries we saw
advertising we in our land full page news
paper ads signs and placards sreetcars and buses
and in shop windows We drew 10000 spectators IN 6uoa
pest and $4,000 in Athens, too"
RoSenblum is impressed WIFI ule russians P"JS4O
qualifications for athletics Now that is He wasn't always
After World War T. following his discharge from the
United States Army Engineers Ed was closely oentneo
with European and Asiatc affairs, sportswSe and other
wise He was actively engaged in relief work overseas IN
Austria, Hungary, Germany, Romania Turkey Polano
and Russia.
when lived in Russia in the early 2Os" Ed remem
bers "the Russians mostly seemed to be short stocky
people, inclined to fat Now they much taller leaner
and trimmer carry weight and they are fast
Russia is a track power. The athletes are well
coached and marvelously disciplined. We have no big
advantage in coaching that The Russians have
the same techniques do, although I guess that
follows nasmuch they've been in the last two Ompics
I'm impressed with their track athletes"