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...successive one-night stands in Philadelphia and Boston last week, Gehrmann and Wilt went after each other again, and Parson Richards went after 15 feet. With the officials behaving impeccably this time, there was no doubt whatever about the results...
Fred Wilt, 30, a Manhattan FBI man in working hours, announced his strategy for the Philadelphia Inquirer Mile in advance: to set a fast pace in order to tire Don Gehrmann as much as possible, take the edge off Gehrmann's famous last-lap sprinting...
...biggest moments of last year's winter track season, boggles by the officials blurred the results to the point of farcical anticlimax. The two big questions: 1) Did Don Gehrmann or Fred Wilt win the Wanamaker Mile? 2) Did, or did not, the Rev. Robert Richards become the second man in history to pole-vault 15 feet...
...took the wrangling authorities ten months to declare, beyond further appeal, that Gehrmann had won the Wanamaker (TIME, Dec. 18). It took an admission of grievous error (the crossbar had been too low) to convince Robert Richards, and the crowd, that he had vaulted only...
...Wilt's timing was way off. He ran the first three-quarters in a stodgy 3:11.6, leaving 23-year-old Gehrmann plenty of finishing kick. Gehrmann scooted past in the last 70 yards, won by a clear seven. The time (not fast, not slow): 4:12.4. In Boston next night, Gehrmann repeated the lesson, won by ten yards in the time...