t-and-f: Ruff's weekend

[Ed Grant]

Netters:         Has any HS athlete ever put in a weekend quite like that of Dwight Ruff this past few days.           With some help from a massive thunderstorm that postponed the 1600R at Raleigh to Sunday morning, Dwight managed this schedule:           Friday evening at Raleigh: A 47.2 leg on a Camden SMR team that just missed winning and, in the process, broke a 20-year-old NJ record set by a Plainfield team anchored by John Marshall.           Saturday evening: a 50.87 heat in the IHs at Richmond (105 miles away) to qualify for the finals at the Junior Nationals           Sunday morning (about 11:15 a,m.): a 46.4 leg on a Camden team what won the National scholastic race, setting NJ and Eastern records for the event.           Sunday night: A 50.37 PR to win the Junior National IHs.                Booby Smith of Hopatcong also doubled at the two meets, but the Raleigh event was on Saturday night (finishing just before the downpour) and the Rickmond one on Sunday night. The disdtances were almost identical: 220-0 at Raleigh, 222-10 at Richmond.            But there is a footnote of interest.  Bobby, a protege of former NCAA champ Mike Jusjus threw a rubber-tipped HS javelin all year in NJ which has forbidded steel-tipped implements for almost a decade. He threw a steel-tipped HS implement at Raleigh, I presume, and then an international implement at Richmond, I presume. His PRS are now, in turn, 223-10, 222-0, 222-10.                                                                           Ed Grant