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Osler, u noved by these accusations began to trounce on the aged Barry, but was hindered by the angry appeal ot sectetary Jascoutt that this was not quite Parliamentary Procedure. Har:ry Berkowitz. Woodr:ow Wilson (Canden) high schoolsr inmortal half hiler suggested that a 2 man 10 mile relay race be held at the Cooper River track. The idea was aereeable to the majori ty present and the date l!/as set at September 21, 11 a.n. In honor: of Harry each nan will run half-nile intervals during this eventOnce more Jack Barry began to enum-' erate on the benefits of vitamins. 'Dick Donohue lvould tun the milerrif30 secoods fasterrn cried Barry, he would enrich his regular nilk by adding powdered nilk to it:n But Barlyrs efforts collapsed when Donohue announced that he never touches ni1k. Donohue even nore violently opposed Barryrs suggestion that he put powdered milk in hi s Coca-C01a. After a,n unsuccessful attempt to renew otdef to the meeting secretar:y Jascourt announced his imtedi ate resignation. Tom Osler was una4imously forced to supercede Jascourt in that honolable posi tio4. The neeting was unaninously adjourned at 1:05 PM when Jack Barry unzipPered his satcheL and announced that several pairs of used aod non-fittine shoes of,his we{e for sale. MINUTES of the Juty neeting of the Midwest Foad Runners CIub (not to be contused wi th the Mideast Road Runners Club of which the president is Gamal Abdel Nassar) held SrturJay norning, Jvly 26, 1958 at the residence of i.ay M,enzie, Arne Richards and Sam Wagschalt (better known as tthe Flophouse't), reported by Lafayette Snith, Chicago correspondant for the Long Distance Log. The neeti4g was cal1ed to oroer at approximatcly 10:J0 in the morning by club correspondant Lafayette Smith, who had received an urgent post card trom the Grand InDeri a1 Potcntale Brownie Ross aski;g that we elect district officers so ihat in turn rnese district officers could elect national officeis, which seened like a logical way to ptoceed. Among those present were: Dick King, Harr) Price, Ra) Menzie, Hal Higdon, Arne ljchards, & Sam Nagschall, who real1y wasnrt
present since he was out in the kitchen eating a bowl of Wheaties when the meeting was catled to older. The first piece of business on the so-cal1ed agenda was whethet or not the Midwest Road Runners should becone menber:s of the Central AAU. Higdon said he ttlought 1lle should because 1t only cost lJ dollars included in whi.h was the price of a subscription to the Amateur Athlete and since his subscription was running out any^/ay it would only real Iy .ost us l0 bJcks and since 1t would cost us that much just to have one race sanctioned it was worth 1t anyway. Richards suggested that they just -ioin 10 dollais $otth and tell them what to do with their subscr:iptiot}, but he was booed down by several loyal members of the AAU who had cone in a group to Iobby for that or:ganizatiods welf are. Having agreed on this, the members moved o..t to other mole pressing business. It -!vr-s suggested that we not linit our membership to Illinois. (as does the Central AAU), Decause the nChicago Ateati covered several states. Most of the members agreed that the Midhesi PRC snould comprise the states ol Illinois, lndidna. Wisconsin, and Iowa at least until other clubs sprang up in those areas. At about ihis ?imF Sam wagschal I, whose rips itiil-' "e.e !!e t wi t h hheat ies, wande red i nto the room. He claimed that we should alse lnclude the states of Colorado and California, because he had heard that there were runnets in those places & they might be interested in running with us. Sam, whose one clain to fame 1s that he once had run for the New York Pioneer Ctub, then launched into' a long tirade on the advisability of getting eastern runners to come our to our meets. He was hissed by the members, however, and finally ceased talking when Ray I'ThunderbirdI Menzie thieatened to throw his fHow to Mamborl book out of the wilrdow. From that pcint the ineeting went on to-a discussion of coming races. Harty Price, who had officiated ar rne recent 15 kilo race, said he thought it had been a success and that we should hoid rnore sirniliar races- Higdon nentloned that a six mile race was planned for August 24th at 11:00 in rlle morning in connection with an AAU Otympic Development 20 Kilo Meter Walk in Hoernet Paik (next page )