Beatty and Dumas Chosen for Track and Field Honor : Hall of Fame: Doris Brown Heritage and Rick Wohlhuter also will be inducted at Seattle convention of Athletics Congress in November.

Jim Beatty, the first man to break the 4-minute mile indoors, and Charles Dumas, the first to high-jump 7 feet, are among four new members of the National Track and Field Hall of Fame.

The others, announced today, are Doris Brown Heritage, winner of 14 U.S. distance titles and five world cross-country events, and Rick Wohlhuter, a two-time Olympian and former world record-holder at 880 yards and 1,000 meters.

They will be inducted Nov. 30 in Seattle during the annual convention of The Athletics Congress, national governing body for track and field.

Beatty was the highest vote-getter with 286 out of 406 ballots cast by members of the track and field community and the news media. He first broke the 4-minute barrier indoors with a time of 3:58.9 in 1962 at Los Angeles.

The former University of North Carolina runner also set American records in five events that summer and became the first American to hold records simultaneously in all events from 1,500 to 5,000 meters.

Beatty, 55, now living in Charlotte, N.C., served in the state legislature but was defeated in a bid for the U.S. House in 1972.

Dumas cleared 7 feet, 1/2 inch, at the 1956 Olympic Trials and won a gold medal later that year at Melbourne. He was sixth in the 1960 Olympics in Rome.

From 1955 to ’59 Dumas won or shared five straight national high jump titles and was ranked first in the world twice in that span.

Dumas, 53, now lives in Inglewood, Calif. He was second in voting for the Hall of Fame with 263 votes.

Heritage first came into prominence in 1967 when she won the first of five straight world cross-country titles and represented the United States on nine world cross-country teams. She also was on two Olympic squads and placed fifth at 800 meters in 1968.

In all, she won 14 national titles and set a world record at 3,000 meters in 1971.

Wohlhuter, a Notre Dame graduate, was the top American half-miler of the mid-1970s.

He broke the U.S. record for 800 meters twice, set world records for the 880-yard run twice and added a world record for the 1,000 meters in 1974.