Word: dave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Untouched by professional coaching. Dave Stephens has copied his style from the great Czech Emil Zatopek. During the World Youth Festival at Bucharest in 1953, the two men became friends. An unspectacular performer at Bucharest, Stephens came home and began to break Australian records right and left. Often the races were run in foul weather, and often Dave ran barefoot. He could not afford track shoes...
Last week in Melbourne, a slim, strong-willed Australian showed that he had found a simple answer: beat the Reds at their own game, and train harder than they do. Amateur Dave Stephens, 25, a professional milkman, ran away from Hungary's somber Sandor Iharos in a 3-mile exhibition race. His 25-yd. victory in 13:37.6 was no fluke. Only four days before, the "Flying Milkman" beat the holder of five world records- by the same margin in a 5,000-meter...
...Dave Stephens' determination to run up track records drives even his wife into a state of healthful exhaustion. Until recently, he got up at 4:45 a.m. every weekday, tossed off a lemonade and studied an hour for a correspondence-course physical-education degree. Then he woke his wife Beverly, hustled her into running togs and took her off to Malvern Oval for some companionable jogging and wind sprints. After breakfast, Dave hit the books again before he caught a train to his $14.50-a-week job as a delivery boy. Now Dave is a $47-a-week milkman...
Starting his route at midnight, Dave gets back home when most people are leaving for work. After six hours' sleep, he puts on track clothes and spends two hours running at Olympic Park. Weekends, before Dave became a seven-day-a-week milkman, the Stephenses would relax, sleep late (6 a.m.), go through only a light routine of study and running. Saturday nights they "lashed out" with a little dissipation: a movie...
Leading the scoring with four points apiece for the victors were Dick Fischer who scored the hat trick, three goals, and one assist and Bill Collins, who scored two goals and two assists. Bill DeFord and Dave Vietze tallied three points on two assists and a goal each, while Whip Filoon and Mo Balboni both scored two points...