Scorecard

The scoffers may now consider themselves refuted. During the recent Tournament of Champions bonspiel in Toronto, a machine known as the Werlich Whirlitzer expelled a succession of stones onto the ice, each with equal velocity. The experiment confirmed what curlers have always insisted. Stones that had the benefit of sweeping traveled farther, sometimes as much as 12 feet, than those that were left on their own.

GOLD STRIKE IN GREENWICH

It is just possible, muses Robert V. Behr, track coach at Tower Hill School, Wilmington, Del., that there is much undiscovered track and field talent in the U.S.

While visiting Greenwich, Conn. during the holidays he found himself in cocktail-party conversation with an attractive young matron, Mrs. Terry Ives.

"I used to high-jump in boarding school," Mrs. Ives said casually. Her best jump? Oh, 5 feet 6.

Skeptical, but diplomatic, Coach Behr said, "That's very good, but don't you mean four-six?"

"Oh, no," she answered. "I know it was five-six because it was an inch over my head, and I haven't grown any taller in the last eight years."

After a calming swig of eggnog, the coach pointed out that such a jump would easily have qualified Mrs. Ives for the Olympic and Pan-American teams. At Melbourne in 1956 Mildred McDaniel of the U.S. did a winning 5 feet 9�, but the next best American girl did only 5 feet 2�. In Rome in 1960 our best girl, Neomia Rogers, jumped only 5 feet 5. The winning Pan-Am jump in 1959 was a mere 5 feet 3�.

Mrs. Ives did her jumping at Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill School in Greenfield, Mass. Neither she nor her physical education instructor realized that there was anything extraordinary about it.

Shortly before the cocktail party Mrs. Ives suggested to her husband that they build a high jump in their backyard so she could exercise at the only sport in which she had ever excelled. Her husband laughed. Now Coach Behr is urging that she take up high-jumping again. Unfortunately, her husband is still laughing.