'Credit Where Credit is Due'

Editor:

In Mark Larson’s article “High Water and ‘Old Boys’ at the Trinidad to Clam Beach Run” (Feb. 13), he states that Vince Engel set the Humboldt State University record in the “880 meters.” He didn’t. My husband Pete Haggard (who, by the way, co-writes a column with Jane Monroe for the NCJ) set the HSU record in the 880-yards track event in 1968 with a time of 1:51:20 minutes (it would have also been a conference record if it had been a conference meet). That record was tied but held until 1991. Look it up — it’s on humboldtathletics.com, HSU’s Men’s Track and Field Top 10 list, 800 meters. Pete is #7 on that list. Engel’s name is nowhere to be found for that event.

Also, there’s no track event for 880 meters. At the time Pete ran, the event was for 880 yards (half mile). Several years later it was changed to 800 meters (which is slightly shorter than 880 yards) when HSU track events were converted to the metric system.

Get your facts straight, and give credit where credit is due.

Judy Haggard, Fieldbrook