Word: gehrmann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wanamaker mile, first run in 1926, is one of the top events of the indoor track season. But for the past four years it has taken on a monotonous predictability: Don Gehrmann in front, usually followed by FBI-Man Fred Wilt. Last week at Madison Square Garden the Wanamaker had a new look and a new parade leader: a little (5 ft. 8½ in., 139 Ibs.), will-o'-the-wisp runner named Fred Dwyer, who scoots around a board track with the short, effortless strides of a warm...
...while last week it looked like the old Wanamaker story. Don Gehrmann was out in front at the halfway mark, with Wilt dogging his heels. But from there on, the crowd kept its eyes on Dwyer, the Villanova University senior who had run the two oldtimers into the ground three times before this season. At the three-quarter mark (3:07.5), Dwyer was in the lead, lost it in the final backstretch to Brown University's surprising Walt Molyneux, then came on with a rush for the tape, beating Molyneux by three yards in a fine 4:08.2, fourth...
...Jersey schoolboy title as a miler both indoors and outdoors. His best time in his first year as a miler: a remarkable 4:22.9. Under Villanova Coach Jim Elliot, Dwyer blossomed into a respectable collegiate miler, but was no great shakes in the big time against the likes of Gehrmann and Wilt until his sudden blooming this year...
...Britain's Bill Nankeville, the 1,500-meter race at the British track & field games; in London. Nankeville's spectacular time, 3:49, the equivalent of a 4:06 mile, was good enough to beat Don Gehrmann, the U.S.'s best, by ten yards...
...Sophomore Wes Santee, turned in a spectacular (but unofficial) 4:07.5 mile. Next day, as if to prove it was no accident, Santee did it again, ran his mile .1 sec. faster to help his distance medley (440, 880, ¾ mi., mile) team set a meet record. The question, Gehrmann and Wilt to one side: Could Santee have beaten Johansson, rain or shine? The answer may be important in the Olympics...