A new chapter in the

champion-miler's story Bouquet for the Y.C.W.
By Terence McQUEEN
iTS been a fantastic week for -aHerb Elliott, the extraordinary 22-year-old ex-Christian Brothers' pupil from Australia who became the champion runner of all time with his world-record-breaking triumph in the 1,500 metres Olympic event.
In the Welsh Games at Cardiff on Saturday, in Sweden (Gothenburg) on Sunday, at Malmo on Tuesday (and in Ireland today) he flashed through race after race to the wondrous applause of thousands, while tall headlines followed with delirious variations on a theme which has become the champion's world copyright: THAT WONDER AUSSIE CRUISES IN . ELLIOTT' TROTS IN AGAIN . . ELLIOTT TAKES ANOTHER STROLL . ELLIOTT STILL LEADS . .
They didn't say it, but Herb Elliott has for long been a leader of another kind—in the Young Christian Workers' movement.
Addressing the 14th annual Y.C.W. Businessmen's Extension Committee In Melbourne, he said that he had brought several Catholic friends into the Y.C.W. movement "because I know how important it is to mould youth in the right way. And one of the best mediums for producing leaders is the Y.C.W." In his early days as a pupil at Aquinas College, Perth (one of Australia's leading Catholic public schools), Herb was acclaimed as the college's best allrounder, having set up records for the 100, 220, 440, and 880 yds. He twice won the West Australia schoolboys crosscountry championships.
Ile made headlines at 16, when he came within 22 seconds of Roger Bannister's four-minute mile. Aquinas College subsequently elected him head prefect and school captain.
After leaving school in 1955, Elliott became half-hearted about athletics, training only spasmodically. It was the sight of Ronnie Delany streaking ahead in the 1956 Olympics at Melbourne that brought him back into action. "I think also, in the back of my mind, I remembered that passage in the Gospel when the fellow was given the talent and went and buried it," he has recalled. "If you've got talents you should use them. I made up my mind to do just that." The phenomenal string of record-shattering athletic feats which has since followed that resolve is beginning to attract fantastic speculation about Elliott's future. But the man himself says: "I'm only wringing the best out of myself. The more we wring out of ourselves the more we build into ourselves."
In ten days' time, Elliott Is due to begin a three-year course of studies in natural science at Cambridge University; he has already brought his wife and six-month old son over to England.