A Roundup Of The Sports Information Of The Week

TRACK & FIELD—JOHN UELSES vaulted 15 feet 1 inch to become the first 15-foot pole-vaulter of the indoor season and set a Holiday Meet record, at the University of Chicago Field House. Rimas Vaicitis defeated national champion Ron Zinn in the mile walk. Vaicitis' time of 6:27.9 is the best recorded in the event in several years. Jared Nourse of Duke ran a fast 9:00.9 in the two-mile event despite a field of 48 entries that forced two heats. Brooks Johnson, the meet's only double winner, won the 60-yard dash in 6.2 and the 220 in 22.3.

MILEPOSTS—DIED: TOWNSEND WHELAN, 84, a leading authority on small-arms instruction and author of The American Rifle, a West Point textbook, in University City, Mo. A retired Army colonel, Whelan was a director of the National Rifle Association, a founder of the Washington, D.C. hunters' supply firm of Parker-Whelan Co. and associate editor of the magazine Sports Afield.

ENGAGED: CARIN CONE, 21-year-old beauty who once held the world's 200-meter backstroke record, to 2nd Lieutenant Al Vanderbush, 1960 Army football captain.

MARRIED: DON HOAK, 33. tough field leader of the Pittsburgh Pirates, to Singer Jill Corey, 26, in a civil ceremony at Pittsburgh. It was Hoak's second marriage and Miss Corey's first.

APPOINTED: JOHN B. HARALSON, Bakers-field, Calif, teacher and coach, to succeed Pincus Sober as Amateur Athletic Union committee chairman of track and field.

RESIGNED: JOHN W. HANES, chairman of the New York Racing Association—a position he has held since 1955-because of poor health. He will be succeeded by James Cox Brady, prominent industrialist, financier, breeder and Thoroughbred owner who has been a member of The Jockey Club for 22 years and was the executive vice-president of the NYRA until November of 1959. The NYRA also announced the appointment of Charles H. Johnson as Director of Public Relations. Johnson had held a similar post at Pimlico for five years.