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East Texas is no longer the lone Star Conference track king'Powerful Howard Payne dethroned the Lions Saturday m Commerce at the 30th annual running of the LSC track and field meet The Yellow Jackets ' trcnn 1 . trength inthe distance events, scored 56 points to 48* 2 for third-placeEast Tes :in second place with 50*2 points.Tcxa A I, 36; Sam Houston. 20, Stephen F Austin, 16;Southwc-1 Texas, 10; and Sul h'- 3; finished behind ET inthat order.Despite their staggering point display, the Paynemen furnished '»niy lt;*ue lt;»f the three new meet, records Big Alfred Holcomb twirled the discus 178 ft -8 in. to eclipse his 168 ft -5 Din. mark set. last year.Howard Payne hurdler (Jury Petros nearly pulled another record for the Yellow Jackets in the high barriers with a 14 2-socond timing. His clocking tied the standard set by East Texas’ Hoy “Buddy McKee in 1958.Tony Garza of A I blazed to a new, mark of 9 4 seconds in the century. Old record was 9 5 seconds held jointly by James Baird of Fast Texas (I960) and Tarry Lewis of Sam Houston (1958eRoyer Nettles of Sam Houston got the other record with a 225 ft 10 in javelin toss Nettles held the old mark of 208 ft-9*2 in set. in 1960.Had the Lions again won the meet, it. would have been for an unprecedented seventh consecutive time East Texas has failed to win only twice in the past decade, and the last time the Lion finished third was in 1941.Howard Payne so dominated the meet this year that ET captured only one first place. The Lion 440-yard relay team paced a 42 0 to win that event for the 11th straight year.SummariesIII II)DISCUS—1 Alfred Holcomb HP (178 8) 2James Hi * on SF A (170 6) 3 B.l FinchSH (169 11) 4 Cecil Grove* ET 11 68 11) 5 John Ondtey SH (163 0) NEW RECORDOold Record 168-5’ - by Holcomb I960 HIGH JUMP—1 Colin Ridgeway. LT (6-8) 2.Billy Bonnetson SWT (6 6) 3 (TIE) Bobby JanciL LT Jack Sfeele, IT, George Roman, SR (6-4)BROAD JUMP -1 Bob Shirey Al (24-7) 2Danny Keller HP (24-6) 3 Mouricio leal. Al (74-4) 4 Dudley Haas ET (24-3,*j) 5 Jackie Gallagher ET (23 1)JAVELIN —1 Royce Nettles SH (225-10) 2 Bobby Jam ik IT f 1 98 9 ' ,) 3 Paul Hern rmdti E T (190 6’,: 4 John Lindsey SH087 2’j) 5 Curfis Shedd Al (177 10C,) NEW RECORD Old recotd 208 9’ . by Nettles, 1960SHOTPUT- 1 Bill Fmrb SH (SO-10'4) 2 Cecil Groves ET 150-4'v) 3 Alfred Holcomb HP (50 ’«) 1 James Nnon, SFA (49-10' 4) 5 John Lindsey, SH (48 8)POLE VAULT I Mickey Nosh LT (13 9) 2 (TIE! Gerttld Cumby SWT Doug Blevins LT Edd 1 Wilson SWT Olen Davis ET (13-5)TK UK440 YARD RELAY-1 ET (Chorles Bode, Jerry Anderson Fred Schaefer John Wes) t? AS I i HP 4 IT 5 SFA TIME 47 0 MILE RUN 1 Dauq Reid HP 2 Ian Stewart LT 3 Peter Imdford LT 4 Lyndon Gathwnght HP 5 Hylke Van der Wo I E TTIME 4 27 7440 YARD DASH I 0-lt;k Watson ASI 7 David Noble HP 3 Donnie Foster ET 4 Ken Jordon SH 5 Jerry Dunn IT TIME 48 6 100 YARD DASH —1 Tony Garia ASI 2 FredSchaefer ET 3 John West ET 4 Donnie Mitchell IT 5 Hugh Hayes LT TIME 9 4 NEW Rf CORD Old record 9 5 by tarry Lewis, SH 1956 and James Baird ET 1960120 YARD HIGH HURDLES—1 Gary PetrossHP 7 Charles Bode, ET 3 Derrell Sm thIT 4 Royce Shelton SFA 5 Bill Fov SWTTIME (Ties record by Roy McKee ET1958 )880 YARD RUN—1 Glen Petty HP 2 FrankSantiago. HP 3 Socrates Baginckos, ET 41 owell Bishop HP 5 Hylke Van de rWol ET TIME 155 5220 YARD DASH—I D.ck Watson, AS.I 2 TonyGaria Al 3 Fred Schaefer. ET 4 JohnWest ET 5 Ken Jordan SH TIME 21 7 2 MILE RUN -1 Ian Stewart LT ? Simon Mc-Nnme LT 3 Lyndon Gathwright HP 4 Tommy Sikes HP 5 Doug Reid HP TIME 10:1 4180 YARD LOW HURDLES—1 Royce Nettles SFA2 Duk Watson Alt; 3 Gary Petrovs HP4 Leon Bryant LT 5 Charles Bode ETTIME 24 6MILE RELAY -1 Howard Payne (Danny Keller Frank Santiago David Noble Lowell Bishop) 7 ET 3 IT 4 SFA 5 SR TIME 3 20 3 220 low hurdles and 220 yard dash were runaround one full curve.
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Commerce East Texan
Commerce, Texas, US
Wed, May 17, 1961
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