Evening star., 1960-01-21
WIN, LOSE OR
DNAV By FRANCIS s1ANN
The Final SoIvo

FOUR YEARS AGO a strappng 19-year old kid named
Dave SINE wearing the blue jersey of Duke came bar
reling down the straghtaway of the National Guard
Amory three tmesto sweep the sprint TO- 80 and
100 yards in The Evening Star Games In the 100 he set
world indoor record of 95 which still stands
At 7:3O o'clock the night of January 81 1856 he
was track nobody By 1890 he was the new wonder of
the sport With pardonabe pride the fathers of The
Star Games pointed to Sine likely to become the first
Olympic winner spawned by Washngtons biggest track
show.
Ihe KID from Fair Lawn, N. j. who went In Duke nm
baseball scholarship wore cant-miss tag until he suf
fered groin injury in the summer that ruined his
chances of making the Olympic team But ON SATURDAY.
night on the Armory floor where he made history Slime
pronounced Smm) will be back with his competitive
fires unbanked
This his last the and the only reason
he's racing now is because he wants that gold Olympic
medal he missed in at Melbourne Australia Every
thing else he's given up including chance to play big
league baseball at bonus continue his studies toward
q medical degree
THIS YEAR is 1T for Dave" Track Coach Bob Cham
nerS was saying on the telephone from Durham today
Win or lose in the Olympics don't expect him to run
any longer He's doing too well in medical school, and
close to his goal to give time to serious athletics
In the Sc Star Games time track observers almost
dropped their stopwatche when they beheld Sine The
kid was yro at track he didn't know how to start And
ne was big, prohbitivey for world sprnter
he looked like what he had been in high school, an ALL
New Jersey haback with his l89 pounds on go frame
Fast yes but not that fast
He's lighter now" Chambers said He's down TO
1'o pounds and think it may help him. Dawes more
experienced now too Frankly he's not as shorn roh+
now as he was in The Star Games of 5s hut In, not
Trying TO hone fine edge right We're pointing for
the Olympics ~
AS matter of fact Dave probably will run IN The
Star Games and the Mirose Games and thatrI he oil
indoors It's too hard the legs and Dave has record
OF leg trouble For the last two years he's been bothered
70 such an extent that he's conscious being susceptible
SlMES DIFFICULTY, Chambers was saying is that
his legs overdeveloped got more power than he
can handle Dukes coach explained. Il don't know how
10 put except to say that his quadrceps feora over
power the hamstrng muscles"
Come again?
We the front muscles of his legs are too strong for
the hamstrng muscles in the back I've seen Dave bend
backwards the steel spikes new pair of shoes ON a
start There is lack of balance between the front and
back muscles, and that's what has been causing his leg
trouble
"As result, we've been working him like a ouarter-
mler' not ike sprinter haven't been letting Dave 90
at wide-open clip in training But will saw that be
looked awfully good in winning the Sugar BoU,l m
for 100 meters isn't bad especially on soft track and
against the wind" ~
The SUGAR BOWL 100 has been Shines only 1860
race and according to Chambers he came out of II
SOUND runner Last year also with the Oympics in Rome
IN mind, Chambers curtailed Shines program to three
races.
He lost to Bobby Morrow, although both were timed
az "a Outdoors of Then he raced the European
and French champions at Norfolk and won After he won
an AAU race that didn't amount to much called halt
mere was no point in asking for injury inviting
oe1eat by somebody who had business on the same
track
mat would be like rsking great stakes horse in an
overnight race But Dawes all right just hope he
comes through all right the indoor tracks in Wash
hgton and New York Having to stop as quickly as YOU
DO indoors is tough on any runners legs"
Because Sine is not as sharp he will become later
chambers admits Dukes flying Blue Devil could be upset
Saturday when II other sprnters-argest field in The
Star Games history-take dead aim at him.
He could lose," the coach conceded but he'll be
trying"