Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bruins momentarily regained the lead when the Crimson's Jim Gaffney lost 2-1, but then Bob Kolodney and Fred Pereira achieved consecutive pins...
...break-through in the top three would make matters more secure for the Crimson. At number one it will be Vie ("nice guys loss") Niederhoffer against gentleman Ralph Howe, the top intercollegiate, ranked in the nation's top ten. Although Howe beat Jim Eng (Princeton) who best Niederhoffer, the Crimson's top man may barge in to win the match if Howe shows signs of letting up. The Crimson's Paul Sullivan, at number two, and Lou Williams, at three, will be strong contenders...
...Manhattan-born Jim Beatty is the best miler in the U.S. and the fastest indoor miler in the world...
First Ever. Black-haired, handsome (despite a nose broken in childhood), Jim Beatty does his moonlighting on the dirt track at Los Angeles' Dorsey High School, where he runs 100 miles a week under the watchful eyes of Mihaly Igloi, a former Hungarian Olympic coach who defected at Melbourne in 1956. "I have absolute faith in Coach," says Beatty. "I don't understand his formula; I just do what he says. If he told me to run a 3-min. 50-sec mile [world record: 3 min. 54.4 sec.], I'd do it." Farfetched as this...
Unlike Snell, Jim Beatty is a "big burst" runner. Small and slight (5 ft. 5½ in., 128 Ibs.), he has the endurance to run any distance up to three miles, but his most important weapon is a reserve of speed-a big burst that he can call on at will anytime during a race. Unlike Delany, Beatty runs against the clock; his sense of timing is so precise that he needs little prompting. Now at peak condition, Beatty will concentrate on the mile this summer, but he plans an eventual assault on every world record from 1,500 meters...