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fifth straight victory In this
event, but his competition in
cludes his Houston teammate,
Al Lawrence, the little Austral-
ian with an unlimited fuel
tank.
Lawrence's Mark Broken
Lawrence owned the Ameri-
can indoor record for the a.
mile run until it was broken
two weeks ago by New Zea-
lands Murray Halberg. He
owns the Smile indoor record,
is AAU 10,000-meter champion.
competed in the 5.000-meter
race in last summers Olympics
and two months ago over Q
three-day span won both the
NCAA and AAU cross-country
runs.
But Lawrence is not un-
beatable. Fred Norris, amazing
39-year -old freshman at Nc
NeeSe State College in Louisi-
ana, whipped the Australian by
100 yards in the 5.000-meter
race in the Sugar Bowl meet in
New Orleans early this month.
Norris, 118-pound ex-coal
miner from England, Is @ two
time Olympic performer and
ranks as England's top 20-mile
runner.
Lawrence, Macy and Norris
are the big three in this event,
but there are 10 others with
title ambitions, including Alex
Breckenridge, former champion
miller Of Scotland, and Mauri
Jormakka, ex-Finnish star now
at Eastern Michigan.
Vault Record JeOpardized
The pole vault record also
could go. Competing against
Bragg will be three others who
consistently top Is feet. They
are Aubrey Dooley. Oklahoma
State star who is the National
AAU champion: Mel Schwarz.
former Maryland star, and
Henry Wadsworth. newest Of
the vaulting giants from the
University Of Florida.
Jones, who took third in the
Olympic 110-meter hurdles
after winning the National
AAU title, will be cunning for
the meet mark of 80 seconds
in the 70-yard obstacle test.
Don Styron, owner of the world
record for the 220-yard hurdles;
Elias Gilbert, former National
AAU champion and a winner
here in 1858, and Bill johnson.
ex-Wakefield High School star
who is winning big for Mary
land, are in this field. .
The sprint series, always Q
big favorite with the crowd. has
attracted a top field headed by
Bob Brown Of Penn State, Ed
Collymore, former IC-4A cham
pion at Villanova and now a
Marine at Quantico. and Dave
Segal, British sprint champion
attending Furman.
Sprinters Seek Sweep
The sprinters will have to
qualify in 70-yard heats for the
finals in the 70, 80 and 100-yard
sprints. They'll all be cunning
for a sweep, a feat that has been
accomplished five times-by Art
Bragg of Morgan State in 1852
and 1858; Dave Sine, then a
Duke sophomore, 1856; Ira
Murchison of Chicago, 1857,
and Bobby Morrow, 1856 Olym-
pic champion, in 1859.
Brown, IC-4A 100-yard cham
pion, won the 80 and 100 here
last year, while finishing sec
ond behind Sine in the 10.
Slime pulled out Of the other
two because of a leg cramp. RI
Moran. a Penn State gradu-.
ate frequently has flirted with
the 4-minute mile outdoors. set
the meet record at 4:08.3 last
year, fastest time ever on q fiat
board track. He turned in the
second best, clocking of 4:08.8
three weeks ago in Baltimore.
Those hoping to upset Moran
tonight include two Quantico
Marines-Peter Close, ex-IC-4A
champion from st. Johns
College, and Mike Flemming.
former Baltimore Poly star.
Pat Clohessy, another Of those
fast Australians at Houston, Is
another threat to Moran.