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...track meet in the middle of this month that was expected to highlight the summer sports picture at Harvard has largely been shelved because its two star attractions would not be available. Roland Sink, hailed by some sport writers as better than Gil Dodds, has been dropped out of the Midshipmen Supply School, and Dodds himself has heavy weekend speaking schedules for the Youth for Christ movement...
...Dodds saga began when, as a boy in Falls City, Nebraska, Gil Dodds threw a rock at a passing car. The occupant emerged and gave wrathful chase; Dodds gave him a good race, but finally succumbed. The driver turned out to be Lloyd Hahn, then a famous miler, and he was so surprised at being so nearly outrun that he forgot the damage to his car and gave Dodds his first real instruction in running...
...Gil Dadds, voted "The Most Outstanding Amateur Athlete of 1943," and Roland Sink, currently one of the fastest college milers in the country, are setting a fast pace for Coach Jaakko Mikkola's track team in daily workouts at Soldiers Field...
...Gil Dodds Here
...special added attraction is included in the summer's track outlook in the person of Gil Dodds, famed miler, who is pursuing his divinity studies at the Graduate School of Education here. Although he cannot compete for Harvard, he has been working out at Soldiers Field, and it is hope that he may later be induced to run in an invitation race here...