Track : Brisco-Hooks Sets Mark; Lewis Wins, Rips Media

Valerie Brisco-Hooks, who won three gold medals at the Olympic Games, established a world indoor best in the women’s 440-yard dash with a time of 52.99 seconds Saturday night in the Dallas Times Herald Invitational meet.

“I’m not in total condition,” Brisco-Hooks said, “but the crowd really pulled me through. I heard them roaring, and I knew I was close so I turned it on.”

She added: “I’m not in halfway shape yet and I’m still learning how to run the boards.”

The previous world indoor best, 53.29, was set by Lori McCauley in 1983.

Brisco-Hooks ran away from Romania’s Christinana Cojocaru, who was second in 54.32.

“I knew she was close by, but I wasn’t going to let her catch me, no way,” Brisco-Hooks said.

Carl Lewis won the 60-yard dash, then gave a one-minute lecture on mistreatment by the media before leaving Reunion Arena in a huff.

Lewis’ time was 6.10, well off the world best of 6.02 he set at this meet in 1983.

“I felt I ran a good race and I feel I was well received by the crowd,” said Lewis, who was booed last week at the Millrose Games for not taking all of his long jumps.

“I’m flabbergasted by the continued media mistreatment,” said Lewis, who won four gold medals at the Olympics, where he also took less than his full allotment of jumps. “I don’t feel very much respect for the media.

“Whether people like it or not, I am what I am and I will continue to keep on truckin’.”

Carol Lewis, Carl’s sister, who improved on her American indoor best in the long jump, said her brother was upset by an article, but she didn’t know who wrote it.

“It was very unfair,” she said of the story. “Carl strained a groin muscle in the Millrose Games, and that’s why he didn’t continue to compete. Nobody asked about that.”

The Lewis controversy nearly overshadowed a brilliant 60-yard hurdles time of 6.87 seconds by Roger Kingdom, whose clocking was the third fastest indoors. The world best is 6.82, set by Renaldo Nehemiah in 1982.

Kingdom, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was the Olympic gold medalist in the 110-meter hurdles. Greg Foster, the Olympic silver medalist, was a no-show Saturday night because of a Superstars competition in Florida.

Carol Lewis, who failed to win a medal in the Olympic Games, broke her own U.S. indoor best in the long jump with an effort of 22 feet 3 inches.

She set the previous U.S. mark, 22-2, at this meet in 1984.

Doug Lytle won the pole vault on fewer misses at 18-1.