t-and-f: Have you noticed?

[Ed Grant]

Netters:         Those who think that track and field, outside of the Olympics, will ever gain real popularity in this country, may take some caution from the present problems of the new women's professional soccer league.          We all remember with what enthuisiam---and press backing--this project was launched following the success of the U.S.A. in the World Cup. But a story in today;s Star ledger reveals that the New York Power, playing in the heart of the most concentrated population in the county, is currently averaging just under 5,000 spectators per game, less than our local minor league baseball teams.             Just as with our sport, it is the event, not the athletes that catches the attention (and the paying public).                                                                Ed Grant