Butch, Jeff Reynolds Wrap Up Triumphant Day at Owens Meet

Butch Reynolds won the 200 meters in 20.60 seconds and younger brother Jeff won the 400 meters in 45.76 Saturday in the rain-soaked Jesse Owens track meet.

“I don’t think it’s ever been done before--one brother wins the 400 and another wins the 200,” Jeff Reynolds said. “I may have to look in my record book to find that one.

“We don’t want to bump heads with each other yet because we know that we are each other’s best competition. That’s our ultimate goal--to each win an event.”

Eighty athletes, a quarter of them Olympians, competed in nearly empty Ohio Stadium. No attendance figure was available, but an official estimated about 1,500 people in the 90,000-seat stadium.

Joe Falcon, running for the Nike International Track Club, won the 1,500 meters in 3 minutes 38.61 seconds, breaking the meet record of 3:42.30 by Terry Brahm. Brahm finished second in 3:42.50.

Olympic gold medalist Paul Ereng of Kenya, a senior at the University of Virginia, won the 800 in 1:46.41. In beating Stanley Redwine by a second, Ereng broke the meet and stadium record of 1:47.08 set by Earl Jones in 1986.

Other men’s winners included Tony Dees in the 100 in 10.26 seconds; reigning NCAA champ Joe Greene of Ohio State in the long jump at 26 feet, 3 3/4 inches; Dave Watson in the pole vault at 18-7 1/4, and 1988 Olympic silver medalist Hollis Conway in the high jump at 7-3.

Schowanda Williams, a member of the 1988 Olympic team, won the women’s 400 hurdles in 56.68.