Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Mt Washington road race - 1967

Fifty years ago:  June 18, 1967  The seventh running of the Mt Washington Road race featured a close race with the top three separated by 1:42.  Angus Wooten took the victory over Roland Cormier and Richard Clapp who were within seven seconds of each other at the summit.  The Boston Athletic Association and the North Medford Club (NMC) again dominated the results with 22 of the 44 runners being members of the two teams.  BAA combined for a time of 6:36:40 to NMC’s 6:44:38.  It would be another nine years before a team other than BAA or NMC would emerge victorious on the mountain.
 
Nineteen year-old Rick Bayko finished twenty-third.  Bayko, a student at Boston State College with personal bests of 4:22 and 9:16 for the mile and two-mile, would later go on to finish as high as thirteenth at the Boston Marathon.  He ran a 2:20:56 in 1974.  Bayko was the driving force behind the Yankee Runner magazine which covered racing in New England in the late 1970s.  Bayko noted in the Hockomock Swamp Rat, that his best race ever was “the 1973 New Bedford 30K run where his fast 1:34:13 defeated a young Will Rodgers.”
 
Complete results (44 finishers)
Place     Name                            Club                              Time
1          Angus Wooten                                                    1:12:43
2          Roland Cormier   Mt Park AC                                 1:14:18             FW
3          Richard Clapp                 NMC                              1:14:25
4          Peter Stipe                     BAA                               1:16:05
5          Craig Dupree                  BAA                               1:17:47
6          Charles Dyson    Hartford TC                                1:19:02
7          James Daley Jr.  NMC                                          1:19:34
8          Tom Maynard                 BAA                               1:20:10
9          Stuart Adams                 BAA                               1:20:40
10         Remi Charoux                 NMC                              1:21:08
11         Richard Cordier   BAA                                           1:21:58
12         Kenneth Klatka                                                   1:22:17
13         George Waterhouse        NMC                              1:23:10
14         Mike Bigelow                  BAA                               1:24:46
15         Don Morton                    BAA                               1:25:31
16         Don Fay             BAA                                           1:26:20
17         Lenny Holmes                NMC                              1:26:21
18         Ben Chapinski                 NMC                              1:27:04
19         Ralph Grant                    Waterville AC                  1:27:21
20         Roland Dyer                   Waterville AC                  1:27:31
21         John Hurley                    NMC                              1:29:07
22         Ron Gaff                                                                        1:31:03
23         Rick Bayko                     NMC                              1:31:45
24         John Jarek                     Mt Park AC                     1:31:53
25         Charles Scott                  NMC                              1:34:23
26         Beattie Mackenzie           Ottawa Ski                                 1:34:38
27         Sigmund Podlozny           NMC                              1:38:33
28         Robert Page                   NMC                              1:40:41
29         Sam Stallard                  Viking Ski club                1:41:48
30         Vin Fandetti                    NMC                              1:41:56
31         John Linscott                  BAA                               1:42:24
32         Doug Bourne                  Mt Royal                                    1:43:19
33         Alton Chamberlain           NMC                              1:44:41
34         Bill Lagueux                                                       1:44:44
35         George Leslie                 NMC                              1:46:49
36         Brian Cuerden                 NMC                              1:47:13
37         Ronald Dyer                   Waterville AC                  1:47:34
38         John Philbrick     Gorham AC                                 1:51:08
39         Bob McVeigh                  BAA                               1:51:47
40         James Daley Sr.  NMC                                          1:56:32
41         John Helpern                  Cambridge Y                  2:00:40
42         William Castle    NYAC                                         2:03:46
43         George Lattarulo NMC                                          2:04:09
44         Stanley Sheldon                                                  2:17:12

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