Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-05
Glass Pole
Credited for
16-Footers

Don Bragg, the retired holder
Of the official indoor record
at 1894 before Uelses shocked
the track world with q vault Of
15-10A in the District Of Co
lumbia Armory on January 81,
thinks the fiberglass pole
should be declared illegal.
Pole Makes Difference
Bragg says, "Vaulting used
to be so to 10 per cent the
athlete and 80 to 40 per cent
the pole. Now it has been COM
pletely reversed"
Veteran Trainer Jock Semple
says he doesn't want to take
anything away from John, but
the fiberglass pole makes
Its appearance and suddenly
there's a flock of 15-foot pole
vaulters around"
TITS like a whip. I used
to train Cornelius Warmerdam
when he used q bamboo pole.
I wouldn't be surprised If he
could have done II feet with
one Of these new poles"
Uelses. who gets his next
shot at raising the indoor
record in Friday nights Phila-
delphia Inquirer Games, said
of Bragg's remark: "He has his
opinion and I have mine. You
have to go along with progress,
after all, the metal pole was
an Improvement over bamboo"
Record Set Outdoors
The 24-year-old corporal
won't get a shot at the world
record until the outdoor season
opens. The International ANA
teur Athletic Federation does
not consider indoor marks.
The pending outdoor record is
15-10H, set by George Davis
of Oklahoma last year.
Saturday nights record leap
came on Uelses' first shot at
the mark. He had started down
the runway once, but applied
the brakes at the last second
because something was
wrong" r
IT think I cleared the. bar
by about six inches at my
stomach on the way over" he
said. That's the important
part of your body. I did brush
it on the way down and I
watched the bar all the way
to the pit"
II Feet Predicted
Aubrey Dooley, former Okla :
homa state vaulter who also
now is at Quantico, predicts
Uelses will do II feet some
day" Uelses, just a face in the
crowd a year ago, doesn't have
the answer for what has trans
formed him into a champion,
but admits he has been using
the fiberglass pole for only a
little over a year.
In another big Boston event
Saturday, junior John Reilly
of Georgetown, who amazed the
track world with a 1:48.8 anchor
half mile on the Hoyas' 2-mile
relay team Friday at the Mill
rose Games, scored his top
victory in the Hunter Mile.
Saturday nights victory and
the outstanding relay leg Fri
day have stamped Reilly as one
of the nations best college run
ners. He will be favored in the
IC-4A championships at any
distance he chooses from 800
yards to the mile.
Reilly, the former national
scholastic 1,000-yard champion
from Mount st. Michaels High
School of The Bronx, N. Y,
beat veteran Ed Moran and
Villanova sophomore Vic Zolak,
a former Quantico Marine.
Zolak took the field past the
half-mile in 2:05 and Olympian
Ed Moran of the New York
A.C. a. 4:01.4 outdoor miller,
reached the three-quarter pole
in $40.
Stays Close
Reilly stayed close and pre-
vented Moran from taking a
stable lead. Then the Hoya
made his bid going around the
last turn and had his body in
front by two feet as he broke
the tape in 1905.
The Georgetown mile relay of
John Butler, Jack Ubhaus,
Roger Caruso and Dick Camuso
was third behind Manhattan
and Maryland State in 3:20.1
race.
Bill johnson, ex-Maryland,
ran second to Hayes Jones in
the high hurdles. Jones won
the 45-yard hurdles in SIS.
Other Winners
Other winners included Frank
Budd in the 50-yard dash $50,
Ed Kohler of Fordham in the
shot put $3.50; AL Hall of the
New York A. C. in the weight
throw CAD, Mike Herman of
the Grand Street Boys in the
broad jump (23-2), Jack Yer
man of the Army in the 600
Q:10.D, Bill Crothers of the
University of Toronto in the
1000 (2:08.6), Tom O'Riordan |
of Utah State in the 2-mile
(8:53.5), John Thomas of Bos-
ton U. in the high Jump GID |
and the Irish National team,
anchored by Ron Delany, in
the international 2-mile relay
C7:34.2.