November 11, 1999
An invitational kayaking, running, and mountain-biking triathlon, the inaugural Sea-to-Shore Crossing sponsored by Main Beach Surf and Sport, was won Saturday by David Brauer of Amagansett. Lars Svanberg, Main Beach’s owner, was the runner-up. Sinead FitzGibbon of Sag Harbor won among the women.
A one-and-a-half-mile kayak race in Napeague Harbor began the three-event test, followed by a four-and-a-half-mile road and beach run around the harbor to the Walking Dunes, where the contestants set out on the final leg, a 12-and-a-half-mile mountain-bike ride in Hither Woods.
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Walter Iooss’s new book of color and sepia photographs, covering a 41-year career as one of the nation’s most versatile photographers, again demonstrates the widely traveled Montauker’s ability to render sporting events, swimsuit shoots, and one-on-one work with athletes as painterly compositions, not to mention the almost abstract quality of his more recent beachscapes.
. . . Texture, grace, and serenity mainly interest him, these photographs say. There is nothing awkward here, nothing ungainly, nothing mundane — an excellent reason, in this anxious, fretful time, to have the book around.
The boxers in Iooss’s photographs are reflective, the struggle of Thai kickboxers is balletic, the looks he gets from famous athletes — Michael Jordan being the foremost example — and from the Sports Illustrated swimsuit models are genuine.
Perhaps Mr. Iooss’s greatest gift, aside from his mastery of composition and technical details, has been his ability to render the moment in a timeless, frequently sublime, way.
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Andy Neidnig, the 80-year-old Sag Harborite who ran his first marathon 51 years ago and who was a top-10 finisher in Boston in 1952 and 1953, took, according to his estimate, about seven hours to run Sunday’s New York Marathon, “but,” the octogenarian said, “I did it.”
. . . Neidnig, who dismissed the idea that he might have won the 80-plus division, didn’t even find his name on The New York Times’s finishers list, which ended, he said, at 31,000.
The last few miles, because police opened up the streets to traffic after 6 p.m., he ran on sidewalks and up and down curbs, and on 59th Street dodged pedestrians and dogs while shuffling over uneven hexagonal blocks before heading with a light heart for the Central Park finish line 385 yards distant.
. . . “I’ve told people no more marathons for me, but if I’m still alive at 90, I’ll run.”
November 25, 1999
Ed Goodhines told his momentarily stunned players after their 3-2 loss to Southern Connecticut in the fourth overtime of Sunday’s National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II quarterfinal, “You played like champions. You came from two-down against the defending national champions and took them to four overtimes . . . you should be so proud of yourselves. It was a championship game.”
. . . Andreas Lindberg, a 6-foot-3-inch sophomore forward, with 6 minutes and 11 seconds left in regulation, emerged triumphant from a scramble in the Owls’ goal mouth that followed an indirect kick taken from the right side at around the 25-yard line by Ducan Erceg. His game-tying shot had Southampton’s some 300 fans, including the college’s provost, Tim Bishop, whooping it up. . . . Goodhines’s team, with its unprecedented 17-1-2 record, has put Southampton men’s soccer on the map.
