Track and field: The Redcoats continue to complain

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An announcement over the two-way radio earlier today noted that the Redcoats -- the meet officials who can be picked out of a crowd by the red coats they are wearing -- were complaining that they had not been fed one hour into the running events.

Well, at 4:45 p.m., well before the Southern Section-Toyota Division I preliminaries at Trabuco Hills are scheduled to be finished, another announcement has come over the radio: ‘We’ve got a Redcoat who wants to know why he hasn’t been paid yet.’

Last I looked, most of the world gets paid after the job is completed. I’ll say one thing: This is an excellent advertisement to become a track and field official.

-- Martin Henderson