Word: dillard
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...Salt Lake City, Negro track stars set two new world's records: Illinois' Herb McKenley ran the quarter-mile in :46.2, and Baldwin-Wallace's Harrison Dillard, the 220-yard low hurdles in :22.3. Each was two-tenths of a second better than the old record...
Judging from reports filtering out from the Midlands, this year's Missouri track machine is fatter than a corn-fed hog. In the Drake Relays, their hurdlers ran 2-3-4 behind national champion Harrison Dillard, averaging 14.5 in the highs, 23 at in the lows. They are two and three deep in most of the other events, and as Coach Mikkola commented, "They're not coming east just for the train ride...
...meet at the Boston Garden athletes turned in outstanding performances before more than 12,000 spectators at Boston's first big league meet of the season, but individual laurels went to Wes Flint, who took third place in the 45-yard high hurdle event won by AAU champion Harrison Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace, and later anchored the mile relay team to its triumph...
Flint's performance was noteworthy in that he nosed out highly-regarded Haakon Lidman, of Sweden, and Bill Mitchell, a topflight entry from Indiana. Dillard set a new meet record in the 45-yard high hurdles at 5.6 trailed by a yard by Ted Sparrow, the Tufts athlete with whom Flint has been engaging in personal duels ever since prep school. Flint edged Sparrow in the Tufts-Northeastern- Harvard informal meet two weeks ago, but the Jumbo timber-topper reversed the process Saturday night...
Dave Reed, Mikkola's other hurdle entry, also reached the finals. He finished sixth, although he was second to Dillard in his initial heat...