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Gary TraynhamGaryguffFormer Woodlander -lack Yerman is listed to team with world record holder Tommie Smith in the open mile relay for the Santa Clara Valley Youth Village in the fifth annual Examiner All-AmericanGames this week.although there is no chance he has his eyes on the coming Olympic Games.Asked if the SCVYV quartet could push the existing meet standard, he joked, “Theyhave one weak man,” in pointing to himself.“I’ve been Sometimes Ioutsometimesrelates.Iworkingfeel pretty good pretty lousy.off-and-onand .Tack“I played a little touch-flag football up here this year and I hurt my leg slightly in it and I’ve been bothered some bythe injury.“Right now I have no plans for the (Olympic) Games,” he says.“Last year I just ran off-and-on andwas pleasantly surprised at what happened.I actually won more than I lost,’Ihe continued.Jack added that past Chico track coach Mel Jones had built up a sound program and that the Panthers could be very strong under the conditioning-minded young tutor.In fact, it almost seems inevitable that Chico will be very strong with the reportfrom Yerman yesterday.“We had some time trials last weekand we had three boys run under twominutes in the 880. two more under :50in the 440 and another under :22.0 inthe 220,” Jack related. Ten others havealready run the mile under five minutes.In those terms, the outlook would haveto be good.Jack will be starting his first year of coaching the prep cindermen after helping coach at the University of Santa Clara in the spring of 1966 when he was doinghis graduate work there.His aspirations for Friday night are not real serious, however, in sizing up hisown running.“It’s something to do on Friday night,”he evaluates.Even so, Jack “The Jet” usually makesa habit of performing well on the track,especially on the boards.Classes in boatingsafety announcedFree classes for the public in navigation, safety afloat, and small boat handling will be given by Sacramento Power squadron. USPS. Spring classes will be given in two locations: On Tuesdays starting January 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Resources building. 9th and 0 streets; on Thursdays starting January 18 in the Community center, 2197Chase drive, Rancho Cordova.Bill Hicks, information officer for the local unit said, “Safe boating is fun. Our classes are to educate anyone interested in learning about safety, charts, rules of the road, and equipment. There are 23,000 boats in Sacramento county, therefore the need for the public to know more about safety on the water is evident.” Hicks also stated it is not necessarv to ownis not necessary a boat to take the three month class.Sacramento Power squadron, local unit of United States Power squadrons, has for over 50 years been dedicated to educating boatmen and prospect-boatmen to increase safety at sea. The non-profit civilian organization uses specially qualifiedmembers as instructors all of whom servpwithout pay.Siegfried out a monthBOSTON lt;#) — Boston Celtics team physician Dr. John Doherty sai(J Tuesday it:will he at least a month hefnrp ininrerlJACK YERMANRuns in San FranciscoThe spectacular indoor competition at the Cow Palace is scheduled this Friday evening and the relay is the final event on the card and slated for 11 o’clock.Yerman will run the opening leg for the SCVYV quartet and will hand the baton to past world 600 meter record holder (1:09.0) Martin McCrady, who will be followed by Bruce McCullough.Smith will run the anchor leg in jeopardizing the meet record of 3:17.7.In his opening leg, Yerman will run against San Jose State’s Bob Talmadge, Pat Weddle from Cal, former decathlon world record holder Bill Toomey of the Southern Cal Striders, and Pacific Coast Club’s Jim Kemp, the 1965 NCAA 440 champion.The field is also brightened by the appearance of Mike Larrabee for the Striders,who was the 1964 Olympic 400 meter gold medalist; Lee Evans, anchor for San Jose State after being the No. 1 ranked 440 man in the world in 1966 and ’67, and Smith, who will run anchor for Santa Clara.Tommie presently owns 11 world records,including :44.8 for the 440.The meet includes Olympic gold medalists Yerman. 5000-meter man Bob Schul. 10,000-meter star Billy Mills, shot putter Parry O’Brien, Larrabee, and long jumper RalphBoston.Other Olympians in the field are high jumper Ed Caruthers, shot putter Dave Davis, decathlon ace Dick Emberger, 800 meter runner Tom Farrell, long jumper Gayle Hopkins, sprinter Mel Pender and pole vaulter Chris Papanicolaou.The former Woodland high school and Cal Bear cinder star is presently teaching at Chico high school in his first yearthere.Jack will be coaching track, of course.Nnf cprim/s
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