Indoor Track : Grand Prix Circuit Begins Jan. 13, Includes 14 Meets

The $150,000 USA-Mobil Indoor Track and Field Grand Prix will begin. Jan. 13 with the Sherbrooke (Quebec) International and end with the national indoor championships Feb. 22 at New York, The Athletics Congress announced.

TAC, the national governing body for the sport, said there would be a total of 14 Grand Prix meets, with the top overall men’s and women’s finishers--based on a point formula--each receiving $10,000. Second through fifth places in the men’s and women’s competition will be worth $8,000, $6,000, $4,000 and $2,000 apiece.

All 25 individual events contested at the USA-Mobil Indoor Championships will be Grand Prix events. At all Grand Prix meets before the Championships, point scoring will be on a 10-6-3 basis for first, second and third places. At the Championships, scoring will be 20-12-6.

Athletes are credited with scores for their best seven invitational meets, plus whatever they score in the Championships.

A bonus of 10 points will be awarded for setting a world indoor best at meets prior to the Championships. Six points will be awarded for equalling a world best or breaking an American record, and three points for equalling an American mark. At the Championships, bonus points will be 20-12-6.

In addition to the Sherbrooke meet and the Championships, the Grand Prix schedule will include the Sunkist Invitational at the Los Angeles Sports Arena Jan. 18; Eastman Invitational, Johnson City, Tenn., Jan. 19; Wanamaker Millrose Games, New York, Jan. 25; Albuquerque (N.M.) Invitational, Jan. 26; Bally-Rosemont Horizon, Rosemont, Ill., Jan. 27, and Toronto Star Maple Leaf Indoor Games, Toronto, Feb. 1.

Also, Dallas Times Herald Invitational, Dallas, Feb. 2; Los Angeles Times Indoor Games at the Forum in Inglewood, Feb. 8; Vitalis-U.S. Olympic Invitational, East Rutherford, N.J., Feb. 9; Mason-Dixon Games, Louisville, Ky., Feb. 9; Michelob Invitational, San Diego, Feb. 15, and Northeast Ohio K of C Track Meet, Richfield, Ohio, Feb. 17.