d places in cross country and the mile in Region and. ! ‘as’ a seniorOneUnder four minute sud-| later as’ a senior| nats and ee AO s, eT ae he won both the 880 and mile | denly Wade found himself aS | tested in the Mee oi ak, Belloh willae a by ‘ihe Orel best state and regional meets/the No. 1 880 man, althoug el 1 as state federation cross|hadt cracked the coveted h he! meets around th four- now until fall qu m/|country meet. minute jaunt himself, Now, the scholarship offers} B ow erman’s “predicament” {him q|came pouring in from here,'was ~|there, to propel Wade Bell into and everywhere, butia summer of stardom, which {| Wade turned down many a/he captured the fancy ofin Amer-: | “free-ride” scholarship to fol-|ican track fans along with Ranmittee. ‘On Sesliow the trail made famous by/dy Matson and ay, Jim Ryun. e’ll fly to Winnipeg Lewis and to Oregon| Bell his fantastic|/pate in th University, andClark, coach Bill Bow. climb withstarted ania a 1:46.1 clockKing iniGames. 9 v x the 880 ae fa e to particlPan-American © in the AAU ‘From Calpe at will be on Bell jumped right into the/|Bakersfield, Calif, a w re he'll join water” as a freshman-in the| which is’ only 1:02 off clocking|to New York the world/the U.S. Track and Fiel d team _|880 and mile events, and under/record set by Australia’s great/for a jaunt across the Atlantic as not|the steady wing of Bowerman, | Peter Snell. Only Jim Ryun has | to England for a du al meet. 1¢ young| the Ogden flyer started to chew surpassed mark with a against the British team. of miles|Second after second off his best/ tremendous Snell’s 1:44.9, but the mark| Bell and his fellow teammates ndjtimes. e failed. od to to be be recognized. g Tent eee: down to ueling| But it. wasn’t until his senior Next, it was a 1:47.6 to cap-/Italy, and then it’s halfway ne in to ag that Bell began to turn'the/ture’ the NCAA 880 champion-|around the world to ‘miler in| yo to heads of the track world. He ship at Brigham Young, and participate in the World zy. {lost only three races during | then udent | w _|that span, and all to teammate! ers a 1:45 flat in the 800 met- Games in Tokyo. in the British Commonany luck at all, ee " _____|Roscoe Devine. ) |wealth Games in Los Angeles, Mr.WithBell may be able to ‘cate Bowerman had a problem, a| Bell, ss enya’s Wilson|a day or two at home with his problem that all track and field| Ki classic, nation-)parents, Mr. . an and Mrs. he coaches would like to be bur-|ally-televised duel, : was only Charles Bell, 442 7th St., and c s ‘inny, t for| Sanders, | president; a Greg " Kathy es | WADE On BELL the Move then -it’s back to finish his final quarter at Oregon. | Although his eligibility is up at O. U., Be _ will be running for the Oregon Track Club a ‘Sane ee | Sl . set- on the ‘ym- ‘pie Gamed in Meta City in berae his Pe for a masters | legree in business. — When A? you are out to be the best haifialiler in the world, you can be little else but a “young man on the run.” |