Evening star., 1960-01-25
WIN, LOSE OR
DRAW By FRANCIS s7Aun
The Dedicated Ones

IF THIS WERE NOT Olympic year, the chances
are that Dave Sine would have the entire sprint
series, sweeping all three events and Bob utowski would
have used up all of his chances to set pole vault
record in The Star Games Neither severely but
both had to be cautious There is much stake next
summer
sime the Duke flyer skttered down the straightaway
IN the National Guard Armory like gust of wind to win
his heat at 70 yards The young medctobe looked
better, but when Dave walked back he wore a slight
frown
Coach" he said to Bob Chambers I'm conscious
Of my leg, The hamstring E. :"
What do you want to do?" Dukes track coach asked
I'll run in the 7O-yard fnal and if it bothers me
again I'll skip the 80 and 100"
SINE HAD TO LET out notch in the final, but he
put on his usual comefrom behind burst to beat Bob
Brown of Penn State. His time? mere seconds fiat
tying his Star Games record
AFTER TINS one Dave excused himself Its not pulled
muscle SINE emphasized. "You might say feel strain
ana AFRAID that might really hurt my leg if keep
running I'm sorry, but If you knew how much the Oym
pics mean to me it would be understandable"
you're smart, Dave" Dorsey Griffith director of the
Games told him. We're going to need everything we've
got In Rome next summer"
SINE shot him grateful look "Ive really onlv trained
hard for two days for this meet" he said anolopetica
Coach has been working longer distances irving
10 build up my legs At the Sugar Bowl felt fine but that
was outdoors Of course don't mind saying it's easier on
the legs to run outdoors"
COACH CHAMBERS FUzzED up his protege's crewcut
as ne interrupted We're not going to run indoors anv
more Bob promised We'll pull the Mllrose Games
enurey. They're much tougher than The Star Games
because in New York the distance is ONLY go wards
there's room to stop" ~
Have We got schedue?" Dave asked
"el' not definitely" Chambers said "but let's not
race unul April You go to Texas and then IN Cali
1orna. he turned to knot of reporters
wen go In the back door, if necessary to mako tho
snpCS' the coach explained. I'VE pick our spots
n,eet an DaVeS oeen running long time now He still
can run He proved that with his fiat"
oyStander broke in Dave" he observed "vou r,u,+
want 10 be doctor and Oympian pretty much to
up professional baseball Is true that YOU got quite
1eW offers from major league clubs?"
yes guess 1T is" replied the young man
how many clubs contacted you?"
oiXteen, he replied.
Al AM SATURDAY, Washington time Bob Gutow-
SA was pole Vaulting in Los Angeles When he finished
second 10 Don Bragg-he conned cab driver IN take ~
and his l6-foot aluminium pole to the airport whore h
caught Jet for Friendship Airport He arrived in town
am Saturday slept until 4:3O pm dressed and went IN
.ne Afmory: At pm he was in the air again, vaulting
for the next 31a hours "0-'-''e
After winning the event with Is feet inch he asked
ha the bar be upped to 1875 The slender Marine Corns
supply ofcer from Camp Pendeton Calf was entitled to
Fee eS az that height in effort to break Brapp's
record OF l5-412 for The Star Games
Gutowsk missed the first two hesitated and 6n.r,
Ialo aside his pole, My stomach is churnng" he ex
palneo II vault one more time might pull muscle
ano-olooey-there go my Olympic chances"
I'm not in shape, anyway" Gutowski said "I iumped
very badly in Los Angeles The reason did IS feet
is because was tired. In California was too ouick
Being tired here, slowed down and jumped better But
l need a lot of work"
YOU'D HAVE TO SAY these Olympic prospects, far
from pamperlng themselves pretty dedicated athletes
GutoWsk for instance boarded jet back to California
yesterday and odayhs last day of furough-he intends
to practice at his old school, Occidental
I'm making mistakes" he explained Rome NAV
seem like long way off, but every day counts"
Right now Gutowsk is running behind Bragg as Uncle
SANS No vaulter "DonS real powerful" conceded the
slender Marine who has jumped 1894 outdoors and IS
indoors You really can't compare Bragg 200
FOUNDER I'm 145pounder He's got IS pounds on me- and
so vault differently"
A man with tape recorder stuck a microphone in
front of ouowski "The Voice of America" he said will
you say few words?"
Bob nodded.
DO you speak Polish?" he asked before turning the
switch.
MY folks do. l don't"
English will do" the Voice said do you think
anybody ever will vault 16 feet?"
Definitely, yes" Gutowski said
why did you ask him to speak Polish?" asked a by
stander after the interview
The Voice shrugged Doesn't make any difference he
said I'VE translate the interview into AZ languages any,
way. was Just curious"