Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Backyard. The men finalists managed to provide more suspense. Big blond Lew Hoad, 21, who houses cat-quick grace in the frame of a fullback, was out to prove that this is his year. Already holder of the Australian and French championships, Lew wanted the Wimbledon title badly. It and a victory...
...vaulters, 3) the fastest 400-meter and no-meter hurdlers on earth, and 4) a sprinter who can run as fast as Jesse Owens. In this sudden-death competition, two other 1952 Olympic winners (Harrison Dillard and Lindy Remigino) failed even to qualify, and one world-record holder (Lon Spurrier) could only make third place...
...with Morrow at Los Angeles and try for an Olympic berth.) Pitt's lithe Negro star Arnie Sowell easily stood off Olympic Champion Mai Whitfield in an 800-meter heat and set a new A.A.U. record of 1 :49.8. For the first time in four years, World Record Holder Parry O'Brien was beaten in the shotput, edged by New York Pioneer Club's Ken Bantum's 59-ft.1½-in. put. The standout performance of the championships: in a 110-meter high-hurdles heat, Navy Hurdler Jack Davis, a poor starter, managed to get away...
...Olympic prospects: Shotputter Parry O'Brien, the rugged, big (6 ft. 3 in., 235 Ibs.) Californian who smashed his own world record this last week with a flip of 61 ft. 4 in.; Dashman Lou Jones of the Second Army, world record holder in the 400 meters at 0:45.4, who was 0.3 sec. off that time last week; Middle-Distance Runner Arnie Sowell, a wisp of a Negro with the delicate legs of a thoroughbred, who set an American record in the 800 meters at 1 :46.7, just a second slower than the worlds record; and, of course...
Otto Bachmann '56, holder of the James Bryant Conant-Class of 1928 Scholarship, went on this tour "to see America, to give something in return for my scholarship, and to do something for Germany." The German Embassy sponsored the trip...