Word: dillard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a strained Achilles tendon in his left foot. He was off the team-but still far & away the best U.S. miler. After Dodds, the U.S. sure shots, everybody agreed, were Negro Shot-Putter Chuck Fonville of Michigan, Sprinter Mel Patton of Southern California, and Negro High-Hurdler Harrison Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace. Each, in the past year, has broken a world's record...
...Milwaukee, Herb McKenley, long-legged Jamaica Negro, ran the 400-meter National A.A.U. championship in 45.9 (slicing a tenth of a second off the world record). Next day, Negro Harrison Dillard lost his first race in 83 starts; he overdid himself by running four races in little over one hour, lost two finals...
...Baldwin-Wallace College's high hurdling Harrison Dillard won a 110-meter exhibition, his 79th victory...
...start, Dillard sits in his blocks, then drops his head and looks at his right knee instead of the tape. It helps him to relax. He has an uncanny knack for anticipating the gun. Then it is seven steps and drive. He takes a tremendous (13 ft. 2 in.) glide, the left leg cocked stiff and horizontal as it leads over the hurdle, the right knee up under his arm. When he is practicing, Bones concentrates on those first seven steps-developing speed up to the first hurdle...
...I.C.4-A. Championships at New York City's Randalls Island Stadium (his college is not a member), performed for the home folks. At Delaware, Ohio, he won three more races, stretching his record string of consecutive victories to 73. Next month is graduation, and then the Olympics. After that Dillard would like to own a haberdashery. Says he: "I just like to be around good clothes...