Tony Lynch, Pardee Will Sit-Out IC4A's, Varsity to Enter Four-Man Team in Meet

Defending champion Tony Lynch and seven-foot high jumper Chris Pardee won't compete in this weekend's IC4A track meet.

Lynch and Pardee are injured and the varsity, which took third place in the IC4A indoor meet this winter, will be represented by just four competitors -- sprinter. Wayne Anderson, pole vaulter Steve Schoonover, and distance runners Jim Baker and Dave Allen.

It's possible that all four Crimson entries could equal their best performances and still not score, but all four have improved enormously during the season and can't be ruled out.

Warm Weather Performance

Schoonover, for instance, improved his pole vault performance by a foot during the Crimson's last two meets. Until the Heptagonal championships two weeks ago, he hadn't gone above 13-6 outdoors. But he cleared 14 feet to take second place in the Heps, and then broke through to a University record of 14.6 1/2 in Saturday's Army meet. The left-handed sophomore credited his improvement to the warmer weather.

Andersen, too, improved spectacularly in the Army meet. He hadn't gone below 9.9 until he turned in a 9.7 to win against the Cadets. In the 220 his best time on a straightaway course is 21.9.

Both Andersen and Schoonover face strong fields. There are no 16-foot pole vaulters in the field, but a Villanova sophomore, Vince Bizzarro, has cleared 15-9, and five other vaulters have cleared 15 feet.

Andersen's 9.7 won't impress a field that has five men at 9.5 or under. Don Ardinger of Gettysburg has turned in a 9.4, but the probable favorite is oft-injured Sam Perry of Fordham. Ray Pollard of Morgan State, Jim Lee of Maryland, and defending champion Earl Horner of Villanova have also been clocked at 9.5.

Horner also won the 220 last year, and later won the NCAA title in that event. This year, Lee has turned in a 21.0, 0.3 better than the Villanovan.

Hornets Nest

Harvard's Baker and Allen will be stepping into a real hornet's nest in the distance races. The IC4A team title will be won by either Villanova or Maryland, and only if they score heavily in the distances can Villanova over-haul the defending champion Terrapins.

The Wlldcats will send sophomores Dave Patrick and Ian Hamilton into both the mile and the half-mile, and may add a third miler in Charlie Messenger. Patrick has run a 4:06.7 mile and has a half-mile relay leg under 1:48, and Hamilton is just behind him in both events.

But the competition will be stiff, with Notre Dame's Ed Dean, a 4:03 miler indoors, defending champion Jim Warner of Army, and Bob Zieminski of Georgetown competing for the mile title; and Richard Urbina of Georgetown, and Herb Germann of Seton Hall on hand for the half-mile.

Baker, who has twice run close to Warner in the mile this spring but has been beaten by him twice, may choose the three mile run instead. In that event he would run against George Sheehan of Manhattan, who has run close to 14:00 in the three mile, and Barry Brown of Providence, an 8:53.1 two miler.

Baker has turned in a 9:08.3 two-mile in the Heptagonals; Allen ran close to that time in both the Yale and Army meets. A fine cross-country runner who has improved his speed greatly this spring, he might even be a contender in the longer race.

The Maryland-Villanova duel should be as close as any the IC4A's have seen. The Terps have strength in the field events with Frank Costello, the only 7-foot high jumper in the field, three 15-foot pole vaulters, two javelin throwers who have hit 225 feet, and two 23-foot broad jumpers. They also have Lee in the sprints.

Villanova will get its only field points from Bizzarro and will pray for Horner, Patrick, Hamilton, and hurdler Ken Coniglio to pull them into contention.

AAU Meet

As for Pardee and Lynch, both sidelined with ankle injuries, they are pointing for next month's AAU meet. Pardee jumped 6-8 on a sprained ankle last week, and won the broad jump and triple jump as well. With training and a sound ankle, he could easily repeat his 7-foot jump in the AAU's and win a place on the team that will face Russia this summer.

Lynch may well win a place if the muscle he pulled in the Penn Relays ever heals. He turned in a 51.3 early this spring in the 440-yard intermediate hurdles and has had no competition in any race in which he has been healthy. He has kept in shape by running workouts and won the high hurdles against Army Saturday in 14.9.