European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 23 Coghlan started career As a Winner when Eamonn Coghlan was 11 years old he joined the metropolitan harriers in Dublin be cause he thought it would please his who had been a runner in his youth and was Active As a track and Field official in later on his first Day in the there was a on Emile Cross country race Eamonn wanted to not your first they told you do some jogging and train with us and Well decide when you re ready to the kid kicked and hollered until they his father watched the the first time he Ever saw the boy and Eamonn to the open mouthed astonishment of the i guess then my father decided i was As Good As id been telling Coghlan i had always been bringing wild stories Home from school but mostly they were tales i just made up for after that my father encouraged me As a runner but he never pushed me because he knew i had to really want it for my so at 23 Eamonn made the finals in the meters at the Montreal olympics of it was major news in which had not had a finalist since Ron Delany won the in Melbourne in he finished John new zealand world record Holder Ivo Van Damme of Belgium and Paulheinz Wellman of West Ger he May not have Eamons father was told but by for four minutes he United if i had got the Coghlan says i would have got a reception in Ireland like the hos tages in the United laughter lights his it is a comely face with laughing Blue eyes under a tousled mop of he was in new York to run the Wanamaker mile in the millrose games at Madison Square Gar by he retired the trophy for the second he tucked one trophy away in 1979 by setting the meet record of 3 55 for his second Victory in three he had won for the first time in he won again last giving him one leg on his second which becomes the permanent Possession of the Winner of two races in three years failing of the Man who makes the fastest time in three finishing fourth in Montreal was a great Digap he it took me a while to shake it and then i finished fourth again last summer in the meters in it was a gracious de people in Ireland were but disappointed for my not disappointed with two weeks before the Moscow Coghlan picked up a Bug in one doctor diagnosed it As a Gall he and another diagnosed it As i kept on which i could do with a Gall but if it was flu i should have when i got to Moscow i Felt Fine until the Day before the then i was sick i Felt All right at the i stayed Well Back in the Early conserving and took the Lead on the Back straight of the last then minuts yifter of Ethiopia passed me and then Sulci Man Nyambri of i tried to accelerate the finishing kick is usually my strongest part but i could feel my legs Locking i had nothing left and Kaarlo Maanika of Finland got the diminutive and had won the Maanika in 1972 at yifter had finished third at meters but missed the when he went to the wrong Gate in the stadium and talk his Way he qualified for Mon Treal but a Boycott by african nations kept him out of Competition they say yifter is Between 35 and Coghlan so Ive got two More olympics to try for a Eamonn is will be rising 32 in 1984 and 36 in Coghlan May be the greatest indoor Miler of them up to this Winter he had won something like 27 of 29 races on boards but he had lost twice in three starts this at East in his first race of the he was fourth to Steve who did at the Sunkist invitational in los Angeles Scott hit and Coghlan was second at then Eamonn won at Dallas in so in he on the eve of defeat ing John Filbert Bay of Thomas Wessing Hage and Harald Hudak from West Ray Flynn of Ireland and Craig Princeton and in the Coghland time he was followed across the finish line by Wessing Hage and Eamonn Coghlan is a master of the Scott had said after the los Angeles so any time you beat him its a tremendous a com Coghlan read that and he loves it when his opponents psych the new York times oneyear conf race Morgan signs with giants san Francisco a second baseman Joe twice chosen most valuable player in the National made a lifelong dream come True monday by signing a contract with the san Francis co i wanted to play Here since the time i was 15 years sitting in the bleachers in left Morgan said at a morning news i guess i always wanted to play with the i would have preferred to sign with them at the Start of my but it didst work out that Morgan made it Clear he had no plans to play the role of aging in going to Spring training with the intention to prove in an everyday Ball he noting that he expected to Battle for playing Morgan said he opted for the giants oneyear offer Over one from the los an Geles another National league Western division i want to play with a winning and if i didst think the giants could win this year i have come said mor i just feel that they Are making a lot of strides in the right trying to be a i just feel that i would like to be a part of who won his map awards in 1975 and 1976 with the Cincinnati became a free agent after playing last sea son with the Houston Houston won the 1980 no West title and the giants finished Morgan said he will commute to Candle stick Park from his Home in where he grew up and still before Morgan can crack the giants killed in italian Accident starting he must first contend with Rennie who signed a five year million contract to play second base for the giants last Morgan repeatedly had expressed a de sire to finish his illustrious career near his although he passed up a Chance to play for san Francisco last Morgan reportedly also had offers for the coming year from the Detroit Chi Cago White sox and a japanese mor Gan and newly hired manager Frank Rob Inson were prep baseball stars in after the giants hired Robinson earlier this Morgan said it would be an Honor to play for last year Morgan batted with 11 Home runs and 49 runs batted but the who have struggled in recent May be More interested in morgans leadership talents than they Are in his Joe Morgan realizes lifelong dream family mourns bobsled Der last ride american bobsled Der Jim Morgan is shown at the controls of the 1 sled shortly before the Accident which claimed his life at other members of the Fourman Crew escaped with minor a photo Saranac a there is no Bette known family in this Adiron Dack Mountain Community than the mor and today they Are mourning the loss of perhaps their most prominent Jim was killed sunday in when the Fourman bobsled he was piloting tipped Over coming off a bobsled courses final turn and trapped morgans head and neck Between his sled and the Edge of righthand retaining Jim was a capable said Paul la Mey a former olympic bobsled Driver who himself had run in six world bobsled Cham Jim was a very determined and hard charging competitive the Morgan a close knit is full of those Morgan and three of his Brothers 20 and 30 had tried to become the first members of one family to make the olympics As a Fourman bobsled team in the attempt failed and some Felt Jim Morgan would quit competitive racing he moved briefly to Florida and worked As a car but friends say he moved Back Here last month to prepare for the 1980 world in he had been the United states Best bobsled piloting sleds in both the woman and Fourman events in inns he finished 15th and racing was in the family jims Forrest was a bobsled Driver in the 1950s and had been manager of the 1976 olympic team in on jims younger brother and his sister were both in swe Den competing in the world luge Champi Forrest Morgan and the rest of the family had also become known As the owners and operators of the Dew drop a prominent nightspot in this Adirondack Moun Tain Community not far from Lake the whole family has been described As blonde and and their robust athletic careers seemed to prove the when Jim Morgan and his three Brothers were trying to make the team for the 1980 olympics held in their own he Felt that closeness would be an weve All been blessed with thick legs and thick he said in december we have the same stride and the synchronized push at the Start is going to come easier to
