THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 9. 1961
Back Injury Blocks Moran's
Quest for Indoor Mile Mark
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By JIM KARL
Two weeks ago Ed Moran
shrugged off a back injury in
the Boston A.A. Meet and now
the injury is costing him valu
able time in his race to be
come the first sub four-min
ute indoor miler.
The Penn State grad student in
jured his back while finishing
second to Deacon Jones in 4:07.9.
The week before Moran had
beaten Jones easily at Baltimore.
He didn’t let the injury keep
him from competing in meets the
following two weeks but now he’s
sidelined and waiting for' X-ray
results.
A week after his injury Mo
ran still managed to run a
4:11.8 mile in the Washington
Star Meet. That was good
enough to beat Houston’s Pat
Clohessy.by a substantial mar
gin.
.. Last wek he was looking for
ward to running against Istvan
Rosavolgyi in the Millrose Games’
Wanamaker Mile, but the injury
forced him to withdraw and enter
the 880 where he finished fourth.!
The former Lion great started
the season with a 4:08.8 on a flat
board track at Baltimore, only .5
seconds off the world record he
set at Washington last year.
Although his times have been
progressively worse since the mis-
Savitt Favored in Indoor Net
NEW YORK (/P) —The Nation-iportant factor in indoor tennis,
al Indoor Tennis Championships where the tights can play tricks
get under way with semi-retired |on the player. He may have
Dick Savitt of New York and|t rouble, however, when he
towering Orlando Sirola half of;reaches the third round, probably
Italy’s team that wrecked the'meeting Pierre Darmon of
United States in the Davis Cup-!France, a top indoor player,
rated as co-favorites. j Darmon is seeded No. 4on the
A mystery that had the pro
moters frantic also was solved.
The trophy that goes to the win
ner was found.
When the final arrangements ;
for the tournament were being
made, officials discovered the
championship trophy was miss
ing. They were just about to
have another one made, when
Barry Mac Kay showed up.
“What's all the fuss about?”
asked MiacKav, who won last
year and since has turned pro. “I
have it. I’ll make sure they get
it.”
Savitt, the big ex-Davis Cupper,
already has won the tournament
twice, in 1952 and 1958, and if he
comes out on top again, he gets
permanent possession of the tro
phy.
Savitt, seeded No. 1 domesti
cally, mels Bailey Brown of
Bronxville. N.Y., in the first
round, while 2OO-pound
Sirola has a tougher assignment
against Crawford Henry of At
lanta, a good journeyman play
er.
All told, 32 players will start
the tournament, which runs
through Monday.
Savitt still has a big service,
and that’s probably the most im
ED MORAN
. . . will miss Inquirer Meet
hap, Moran is hoping to get back
jon the indoor circuit within two
weeks.
He definitely will not appear in
jthe Philadelphia Meet this week,
he said.
"I think I can run under four
minutes indoaurs, but I can't
say I’ll be the first to do it,"
Moran said yesterday when
asked if he hoped to be the first
foreign list behind Sirola, Bill/
■ Knight of Great Britain and
Rafael Osuna of Mexico,
j In addition to Savitt, the U.S.
iseeds are Ron Holmberg of Brook
lyn, No. 2; Whitney Reed of Ala
meda, Calif., No. 3, and Chris
Crawford of Piedmont, Calif., No.
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to crash the barrier.
“I guess everybody hopes to be
the first,” he said. “I think it will
probably be done this year."
Moran thinks R'osavolgyi, who
ran a 4:06 in the Millrose Games,
has the best chance of anyone.
“He’s in good shape,” Moran said.
Moran’s 4:04 in the Boston
meet last year was one of the
fastest indoor miles in history but
he didn’t win the race.
Phil Coleman, the Illinois
schoolteacher, ran a 4:03.8 to beat
him by two yards. At that time
only two men, Ron Delaney and
Gunnar Nielsen, had recorded
faster times.
Three years ago Moran’s 4:01.7
third place finish in the national
AAU Meet made him one of the
best milers in the country.
With the appearance of Dy
rol Burleson and Jime Grelle
plus some outstanding foreign
bred runners like Rosavolgyi.
Laslo Tabori, and others the
competition has stiffened con
siderably.
Until his back injury, Moran
jwas running very well this year.
;“I was in the best shape I’ve
ever been in until the Boston
meet,” Moran said. j
The former Lion captain holds
the Penn State record for the mile
(4:01.7) and the half-mile (1:49.9).
Johansson May Get
Finnish Sparring Mate
WASHINGTON (/P)—The State
Department Monday sent a mes
sage authorizing the American
consulate at Helsinki to issue a
visa to Pekka Kokkonen, the fa
vorite sparring partner of heavy
weight boxer Ingemar Johansson,
j Johansson is training near Mi
;ami Beach, Fla... for a return
fight with world.champion Floyd
'Patterson March 13.
Kokkonen, according to news
dispatches from Helsinki, denies
he was ever Communist, but says
that his name once was placed
on a Communist list in a Finnish
municipal election.
! Under U.S. immigration law, a
[member of the Communist partv
cannot be admitted to the United
States except as the government
here waives the regulation in in
'dividual cases.
8:00-12:30
MooreWHlFightfors2oo,ooo
PHOENIX, Ariz. (/P) Vener
able Archie Moore said yesterday
he's willing to fight Harold John
son, the new world light heavy
weight champion for the right
(price.
“My price is $200,000,” said
Moore, “and anytime Johnson
Iputs up the money, he’s got him
self a match”
Johnson slopped Jesse Bow
dry of St. Louis in the ninth
round at Miami Beach. Fla.,
Tuesday night to win the Na
tional Boxing Association crown
that Archie claimed so long.
! Moore knocked out Johnson in
the 14th round in the Philadel
phian’s only other shot at the title.
But the NBA whisked the crown
from Moore because he failed to
stage his ninth defense of the title
Iwithin a stipulated time.
1 Johnson admitted the crown
doesn’t quite fit.
"1 don'i feel like I'm the
champ yet." he said after de
feating Bowdry. "When I beat
the Old Man Moore I’ll get that
feeling."
“Johnson keeps calling me a 1
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‘fat old man’," said Moore. “I'd
like to cram those words right
down his throat.
"I've always said that Johnson
is a very good fighter, within his
limitations,” Moore added, ex
plaining: “His limitation is in
fighting me.”
Moore. 42 going on 50 and
still recognized as the champion
by the New York and Massa
chusetts boxing commissions,
said he was in good shape and
would have little trouble mak
ing the light heavyweight lim
it.
“As soon as I finish some busi
ness I’ll be ready for Johnson,"
'he said without elaborating. “I'll
be available in three or four
months.”
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;group of Miami Beach business
men had offered $250,000 for a
match between Johnson and
iMoore. the vacationing San Diego,
,Calif., business and boxer replied:
| “If that’s not all poppycock,
Johnson's got a fight.
| “But remember, I want a $200,-
"'OO guarantee.”
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