Newtters:
One oif the more plesant things in our sport is seeing a great
career at the very beginning. This is why I take particular pleasure in
Steve Slattery's win at the USATF meet in the SC.
Steve was, I believem just a sophomore in HS when he first ventured
into the event at the NJ Junior Olympic meet at Montclair State University.
The distance was 2K. What impressd me was his hurdling form; I had already
seen what he could do in the flat distance races. In fact, I said to him
after the race, only half-jokingly, that he might take up the IH (he was
running 50-second relay legs at the time).
You don;t have to be a good hurdler to succeed in the SC; witness
Kip Keino stepping on every barrier at Munich, but it does help. Steve, I
think, has a good chance of eventually getting the AR for the event.
Ed Grant
