The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 16, Ed. 1, Wednesday, March 29, 1961 Page: 6 of 8
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PACE 6
THE PESSIMIST
MARCH 29 1M1
Gof f Now Let Go
. . . says Elvis Istre left to Bud White as he attempts to
take the baton away from him. The Abilene Christian track
team has found it necessary to develop a new style of baton
hand off after some unfortunate accidents White and Istre
are expected to add extra weakness to the ACC team in the
Hypochondriacs' Track Meet.
Hypo's Meet Set
For ACC Track;
Cats Are Favored
The athletic department has
announced that ACC will this
year host for the first time the
National Hypochondriacs' Track
and Field Championships during
"Whcrc'd Our Fine Track Team
Get Off To Week" July 28 and 29
"It's a real honor for us tojhave
such a congregation ofwell-
known track and field patients on
our campus" stated Bugs (A. B )
Morris ACC Athletic Director
The meet will bring together all
the cinder stars who have been
injured during the season and
were not able to compete at one
time or another for a period of a
week or more.
One reason for ACC's receiving
the meet is the great number of
Wildcat stars who will be com-
peting. The meet is most often
awarded to the school hit hardest
by injuries since it would cost
them more than anyone else to
attend Our home crew won the
meet hands-down for its illness-
participataon. Lost year's national champs
from the hospital at Brooke Medi-
cal Institute will return but they
ore not paced by such sickly stars
as they had last year.
Their veteran sprinter Jose
Harnero-Nariz will make his
fourth appearance in the competi-
tion though. He is well known
for his ability to spike himself in
the nose on at least two out of
every three dashes
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Laid-Up class will begin Friday
morning on the weekend of the
meet in the ACC Clinic. Finals
will be moved to Hendrick Hcm-
onal Hospital where a panel of
five leading New York doctors
will hear their cases and award
medals for the first second and
third places
Those hurt to a lesser degree
will vie for honors at Wildcat
Stadium awards going to the
slowest runners and lowest jump-
ers point are added if the con-
testant manages to injure him-
self further during competition
World records in the events are
RL-U division Four of the five
doctors crying
Lesser-Hurt division: (Con-
testants from first NHTFC meet
1909 are still running and results
will be given when a winner is
declared ) One division which has
been dropped for this year is the
Gunshot Wound Relay in which a
team lays up as many men as
possible from hunting or gun-
cleaning excursions Meet direc-
tors said last year's defending
champions have not notified that
they will have entries and that
no one else practices the event
regularly.
Am
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"m f Hugh Bowie Jewelry
Track Team Gets
Regarding Baton
Feeling a need for some ad-
vanced coaching in the field of
baton handling head track coach
Oliver Jackson ths week induced
Douglas Fry to bring his Big
Purple out to the track to give
the trackmen some pointers on
relay work.
Although they lack experience
in actual relay running Jackson
explained they handle the baton
very well sometimes dropping it
only two or three times a perfor-
mance An earlier Jackson plan failed
as last week he tried to bring a
number of high school musicmen
here under the title of the Texas
Interscholastic League Band con-
tests But in reconsidering he
BULLETIN
Gwynnclh Curtis drum
major for lho ACC band has
been named by Head Track
Coach (and Foot Track
Coach) Oliver Jackson to re-
place the entire 440 and milo
relay teams on the Wildcat
track squads.
Jackson said Curtis had
shown himself to bo so able
in baton handling that lho op-
portunity could not bo passed
up to mako use of his ser-
vices. Jackson requested
funds to purchase a go-cart
for Curtis so he could keep up
with lho competition while
handling the baton so well.
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thought the home band would
understand the problem better.
"We know the batons used by
the band and by the track team
arc not exactly the same but we
need some help regardless of what
kind it is" stated Jackson.
In their first hour on the field
the bandmen quickly pointed up
some things the cindcrmen were
lacking in: "When you throw the
baton In the air be sure to make
it spin It looks better when you
catch it this way if you happen
to
And if you don't plan to catch
it be sure to aim for one of the
other runners in the race prefer-
ably the leader."
Here the instructor cited an ex-
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Pointers
Handling
ample where one of the tracksters
threw the baton toward the
stands as if at his mother-in-law
instead of at someone who really
needed to be done away with. At
tills point an argument arose con-
cerning whether an enemy track-
man or a mother-in-law was least
needed.
It was finally agreed that If the
leader of the race was too far
ahead a mother-in-law (anyone's)
was a good second choice.
At the end of the lectures the
Big Purple members prepared to
give an exhibition or as one of
them was heard to say "We're
going to practice what we
preach." When asked to quote
chapter and verse on what he had
just preached he hesitated mo-
mentarily and was ejected from
the stadium
The exhibition was a relay race
and the band members agreed to
use a track-type baton although
it was the kind with which they
were not familiar.
But the race was halted at the
second handoff station when the
second runner could not complete
the handoff His finger was stuck
in the baton.
"I didn't know how to carry it"
protested the unfortunate one as
he tried to wrench his finger from
the trap. All ours have rubber
covers on the end." At the end of
the day he was still reported to
have the longest index finger of
anyone on campus
To further Insure success for
the remainder of the track season
several tubes of permanent glue
were ordered and plans were for-
mulated to make use of it. But
the limited availability of inter-
changeable hands ruled out that
solution
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The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 16, Ed. 1, Wednesday, March 29, 1961, newspaper, March 29, 1961; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth91778/m1/6/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.