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From: "James Truher" <james@truher.com> To: "'Jack Truher'" <jack@truher.net> Subject: Re: Blond Thunderbolt 220 Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:09:21 -0700
Here is my recollection of this stuff.
It was taken at Burbank High School during the Foothill League championship meet. Four different uniforms are shown in the picture (see below). I thought it was a two day meet, with prelims on Thursday and Finals on Friday. But it looks like it was over a weekend, with Friday prelims & Monday finals. The date in the photo below appears to be Friday (4/25/52). The story, Tuesday the 29th refers to finals being “yesterday.”
Two stories were published, one clipping shows no date and the other on Tuesday, 4/29/52. It is possible that the news guys and editors were all screwed up and everything happened on Thursday and Friday, but probably not. The photo reports 23.2 for prelim & the write up 22.7 for final. I remember the wind being about the same for both prelim and final, and one of the other kids in the final said to me just before it started something like, “with this wind, I guess we don’t have a chance.” Based times in other races for everybody, the wind probably made the straight-away 220 a full second slower than in calm conditions.
Under the picture are the words “League qualifying time”. So I’m sure it was taken during a 220 heat of which I believe there were two, and no one was running very fast, because of the wind. I remember feeling no pressure in most 220’s and doing an “over shoulder look around” with about 20 yds to go in a few of those races; that explains the relaxed posture while finishing a sprint. Al “Weary” Walton (Muir track coach) chewed me out for doing that several times and told me it, if I kept it up, I’d lose to somebody I should beat. He was right.
The two news reports differ (3 yds vs 5 yds) re the distance between 1st and 2nd. I think the camera greatly distorted the distance; I believe the distance between 1st and 2nd in the photo was really 5 to 8 yards at the most, and it wasn’t much different in the finals. Also two or three of the other guys in the photo were in the finals. See: http://www.kevinwilley.com/l3_topic04.htm
From: "James Truher" <james@truher.com> To: "'Jack Truher'" <jack@truher.net> Subject: Re: Blond Thunderbolt 220 Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:09:21 -0700
Here is my recollection of this stuff.
It was taken at Burbank High School during the Foothill League championship meet. Four different uniforms are shown in the picture (see below). I thought it was a two day meet, with prelims on Thursday and Finals on Friday. But it looks like it was over a weekend, with Friday prelims & Monday finals. The date in the photo below appears to be Friday (4/25/52). The story, Tuesday the 29th refers to finals being “yesterday.”
Two stories were published, one clipping shows no date and the other on Tuesday, 4/29/52. It is possible that the news guys and editors were all screwed up and everything happened on Thursday and Friday, but probably not. The photo reports 23.2 for prelim & the write up 22.7 for final. I remember the wind being about the same for both prelim and final, and one of the other kids in the final said to me just before it started something like, “with this wind, I guess we don’t have a chance.” Based times in other races for everybody, the wind probably made the straight-away 220 a full second slower than in calm conditions.
Under the picture are the words “League qualifying time”. So I’m sure it was taken during a 220 heat of which I believe there were two, and no one was running very fast, because of the wind. I remember feeling no pressure in most 220’s and doing an “over shoulder look around” with about 20 yds to go in a few of those races; that explains the relaxed posture while finishing a sprint. Al “Weary” Walton (Muir track coach) chewed me out for doing that several times and told me it, if I kept it up, I’d lose to somebody I should beat. He was right.
The two news reports differ (3 yds vs 5 yds) re the distance between 1st and 2nd. I think the camera greatly distorted the distance; I believe the distance between 1st and 2nd in the photo was really 5 to 8 yards at the most, and it wasn’t much different in the finals. Also two or three of the other guys in the photo were in the finals. See: http://www.kevinwilley.com/l3_topic04.htm
From: "James Truher" <james@truher.com> To: "'Jack Truher'" <jack@truher.net> Subject: Re: Blond Thunderbolt 220 Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:09:21 -0700
Here is my recollection of this stuff.
It was taken at Burbank High School during the Foothill League championship meet. Four different uniforms are shown in the picture (see below). I thought it was a two day meet, with prelims on Thursday and Finals on Friday. But it looks like it was over a weekend, with Friday prelims & Monday finals. The date in the photo below appears to be Friday (4/25/52). The story, Tuesday the 29th refers to finals being “yesterday.”
Two stories were published, one clipping shows no date and the other on Tuesday, 4/29/52. It is possible that the news guys and editors were all screwed up and everything happened on Thursday and Friday, but probably not. The photo reports 23.2 for prelim & the write up 22.7 for final. I remember the wind being about the same for both prelim and final, and one of the other kids in the final said to me just before it started something like, “with this wind, I guess we don’t have a chance.” Based times in other races for everybody, the wind probably made the straight-away 220 a full second slower than in calm conditions.
Under the picture are the words “League qualifying time”. So I’m sure it was taken during a 220 heat of which I believe there were two, and no one was running very fast, because of the wind. I remember feeling no pressure in most 220’s and doing an “over shoulder look around” with about 20 yds to go in a few of those races; that explains the relaxed posture while finishing a sprint. Al “Weary” Walton (Muir track coach) chewed me out for doing that several times and told me it, if I kept it up, I’d lose to somebody I should beat. He was right.
The two news reports differ (3 yds vs 5 yds) re the distance between 1st and 2nd. I think the camera greatly distorted the distance; I believe the distance between 1st and 2nd in the photo was really 5 to 8 yards at the most, and it wasn’t much different in the finals. Also two or three of the other guys in the photo were in the finals. See: http://www.kevinwilley.com/l3_topic04.htm