TRACK AND FIELD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS : U. S. Titles on the Line, but Foreigners Are Featured

The uneventful 1990 indoor track and field season will end here tonight with the Mobil Indoor Championships at Madison Square Garden.

The meet will determine the individual and overall Grand Prix winners as well as U.S. national indoor champions in each event.

Although foreigners are not eligible to win U.S. titles, some will be featured nonetheless.

Romania’s Doina Melinte, who set the women’s world indoor mile record Feb. 9 at the Meadowlands Invitational in New Jersey, is entered in the mile that also includes Svetlana Kitova of the Soviet Union. Kitova was ranked third in the world in the 1,500 meters last year.

Marcus O’Sullivan of Ireland, the world record-holder for the indoor 1,500 meters, will run in the men’s mile, competing against some of the United States’ best middle distance runners--Jeff Atkinson, Joe Falcon, Terrence Herrington, Sydney Maree and Steve Scott.

Eamonn Coghlan of Ireland, attempting an indoor comeback this season, will run the 3,000 meters and the mile. In the 3,000, Coghlan will race Doug Padilla, who set a U.S. record for the indoor two-mile last week at the Times/Eagle Games, Brian Diemer, Maree and Scott.

The men’s 55-meter hurdles event could be one of the meet’s best races with seven of the world’s top 10 runners entered. Roger Kingdom, who set a world outdoor record last summer, will run against Tonie Campbell, Renaldo Nehemiah, Jack Pierce, Courtney Hawkins and Arthur Blake.

Evelyn Ashford, Dawn Sowell and Grand Prix leader Michelle Finn are among the leading entrants in the women’s 55-meter dash.

Other featured competitors are Hollis Conway in the men’s high jump, Louise Ritter in the women’s high jump, Larry Myricks and Mike Conley in the long jump, Randy Barnes in the shot put, and Ramona Pagel, Connie Price and Bonnie Dasse in the women’s shot.