Word: daves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open a big lead and then ease up. He won breezing. Then they looked at their watches again. In his qualifying heat for the 220-yd. dash at the Atlantic Coast Conference track meet in Durham, N.C. last week, long-legged (6 ft. 2 in., 187 Ibs.) Duke Sophomore Dave Sime (rhymes with skim) had run off a casual 0:20.1 to crack Mel Patton's seven-year-old world record by a tenth of a second. Next day, running into a light head wind, Sime had to settle for 0:09.5 in the 100-yd. dash...
...indoor 100-yd. dash (0:09.5); fortnight ago he shaved the 220-yd. low-hurdle record to 0:22.2. And if his father, Aircraft Plant Guard Charles Sime, has his way, the rapid young man will be a long time slowing down. After his world-record dash last week, Dave had hardly caught his breath when he was talking on the telephone to his dad in Fair Lawn, N.J. "Next time do it faster," was Charles Sime's peremptory order...
Backyard Hoop. A veteran of professional baseball and basketball, Father Sime has always felt a drive to teach his son his own driving urge to excel in sports. As soon as young Dave could handle a basketball there was a backyard hoop. "When I was five," he recalls, "Dad had me out hitting baseballs. Dad always told me to run faster, throw harder, hit farther. He never has been completely satisfied...
...Happily, Dave had the smooth-muscled and supple physique to handle his strenuous coaching. He was a three-letter man in high school (baseball, football and basketball); when he graduated he had no trouble getting a scholarship from Duke University. Dave so impressed Duke coaches with his speed on the baseball diamond that before his freshman spring was over, he was working out part-time with the track team...
Comprising the Yardling golf team at Hanover Saturday will be Frank Dodge, Dave Bernstein, Mike Taylor, John "Whip" Filoon, Bob Grundeman, and Alan Blinken. The freshmen seek a second win over the little Indians...