Word: indoors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rozsavolgyi, holder of three world records for outdoor middle-distance running, the problem is even more complicated. For while Ron runs to win and only as fast as he has to, Rozsy runs against the clock. He knows from wind-broken experience that setting a new record for the indoor mile may be the only way to defeat The Delany...
...Haven Saturday afternoon, the freshman track team took second in the Big Three indoor track meet at Yale's Cox Cage. Yale won the meet with a score of 57.7, while Harvard, with 49.95, and Princeton with 29.35, trailed the Elis...
...left to satisfy the record-hungry crowd. And this time he tried. He settled into his snug, easygoing stride and watched Maryland's Burr Grim sprint ahead of him into a swift first quarter. Clearly, Grim was going to try to pace him past Gunnar Nielsen's indoor mark of 4:03.6. And Ron was willing. But he thought Grim was starting just a little too fast and he hung back, well off the pace. When Grim faded, Ron got up on his toes and ran for the record. But he was running all alone. There...
...When will you try for a record, Ron?" a friend had asked him before the race. "When the beer cans come sailing out of the Garden gallery," he answered. But he changed his mind, and the indoor track season took on some luster as Ron's all-out effort promised some great miles to come...
...lined, grave-faced old Italians come to roll bocce balls for 30? a game in the indoor courts behind the bar, or to drink a poncino (coffee laced with brandy) and play long, silent games of pinochle. But now and then the pinochle stops in mid-meld, and the bocce bowlers push through the swinging door into the bar to stand watching the small stage. Occasionally, as a mark of highest respect, the old men take off their hats...