Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-05-04
Northwood Invitationa| Draws 10
For Fifth Annual Meet Tomorrow
Blair, B-CC Are
Rated Strongest
In 1st Big Meet
By George Bragaw
Sports Editor


pete in the first big Mary
land track and field meet of
the season tomorrow - the
fifth annual Northwood In
vitational at Mort wood
High School S tarting at
'2:30 pm.
With the acceptance 'of Cal
thersburg late Monday the field
was completed for the IA event
meet. The schools participat-
ing are Bethesda-C Chevy Chase,
Blair, defending champion Suit
land, Walter Johnson, Richard
Montgomery, High Point,
Northwestern, Damascus and
Gaithersburg.
Blair, defending state cham
pions, must be held as favor
ties in its first year in the In
vitational. The Blazers have
the best one-tWo scoring punch
in the area in hurdlers Jim
O'Neil and Alfred Caron. O'Neil
set a county record of 20.2 ir
the 180-year low hurdles and
was named to the SentineIs All
County track team last year as
junior. He has run 1876 for
a new record against the Mary
land Frosh this season. This is
nearly two seconds faster than
Paul Whites meet record of
last year. On the 12-S-6-4-2 scor-
ing basis for the first five
places, Blair is in an excellent
position to pile up points in the
lows and the 120-yard high
hurdles.
Blair also has Chuck O'ReiIly
who broad jumped % feet last
year and who has run a 10 flat
hundred this season. Bob
Windsor, another All-County
track man, and overall team
depth give Coach Jerry Reyn-
Odds an excellent chance of TAX
ing the meet in his first try.
All is not Blair, however.
B-CC has come up with another
crack mile and S80-yard relay
team and although the Barons
have won only one meet in four
tries, they have broken six rec
ords and tied another this
spring.
B-CC mostly on the strength
of the relay teams of Doug
Browning, Brian Speaker, Bob
Trafton and Terry Terrell fin
ished a strong second in the
w a k efield Invitational last
week. Those boys won both the
mile and $50 as B-CC finished
highest in that meet in six
years. Three of these boys
running in mile relay against
the Maryland Frosh posted a
1902 - more than five Sec
onds faster than the Northwood
record of 1854 posted by an.
other B-CC team two years ago.
B-CC sophomore Dick Rubin
has run 2:03.8 in the $50 run,
again faster than the North
wood meet record.
Walter Johnson's Dick Dun
lap has trimmed three-tenths of
a second from his best hundred
of last season to run a 9.9 to
break the mark set by his fab
ulous precursor Billy Grey.
Dunlap is reputed to have run
a 81 in practice this season
and an O'Reilly-Dunlap duel
will be one of the top features
of the meet. WIS John Muir
dock holds the meet, County
and State records for the shot
put. He throws over 50 feet.
Jim Scherer of Suitland has
high jumped 6-foot-2 this sea
son, two inches better than the
Northwood mark. The Rams
won their first major sports
championship by taking the In
vitational last year and along
with Northwestern represent
strong entries from Prince
Georges County.
Other individual performers
of note are Carroll Williams
and Danny Long of Richard
Montgomery. Williams ran a
10.1 hundred recently but could
finish no better than third
against Dunlap and company of
WI. Long is one of the best
milers around. Jerry Kelly.
brother of John mile High"
Kelly who holds the county
pole vault record of 12-foot.2,
will be a strong contender in
the pole vault competition. Wat
son Prather, one of the Rockets
brightest football stars, has
turned in a 22.3 in the 220-yard
dash in his first year on the
team.
The host team, although APP
parently not as strong as the
squad that finished second in
the state meet last season,
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