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...study track and field five years ago, learned so fast that he ranks as one of the world's best all-round athletes. A decathlon star, he won a silver medal at the 1960 Olympics. He has been clocked at 9.4 sec. for the loo-yd. dash-just .2 sec. off the world record - runs the 120-yd. high hurdles in 13.9 sec., broad-jumps 25 ft. 5 in., high-jumps 6 ft. 4 in., whirls the javelin 238 ft. 7 in. But the pole vault is not Yang's cup of oolong. Until his big jump Yang...
Charlie Bittick 21, a member of the Olympic water polo team, whose rugged shoulders and arms, developed in one of the world's toughest games, made him the meet's only triple winner: loo-yd. and 220-yd. backstroke and 400-yd. individual medley-all in record times. Born in landlocked El Reno, Okla., Bittick moved to Long Beach, Calif, at eleven and quickly developed an abiding taste for the Pacific Ocean. A few years later he was a high school swimming star. At the University of Southern California, where he is captain of the swimming team...
...loo-yd. freestyle, the feature event of any swimming meet, the man to beat was Jeff Farrell, 23, a weight-lifting Navy lieutenant who had won the 220 in the record time of 2:00.2. In a trial heat, Farrell tied the listed record of 48.9. But 16-year-old Steve Clark of Los Angeles qualified in 48.8. Suitably impressed, Farrell hit his tumble turns in the finals like an acrobat, won in the record time of 48.2 (Clark was fifth, with 49.4) So fast were the American sprinters that 19 bettered the 51-sec. world record of Johnny (Tarzan...
...that thrashed home in 4:19.4 to lower the world's record by .6 sec. Meanwhile, sturdy, 14-year-old Chris von Saltza of Saratoga, Calif., swimming in a nearby San Jose pool, set three U.S. records in one astounding afternoon with times of 57.9 sec. for the loo-yd. freestyle, 4:54.8 for the 440-yd. freestyle and 5:37.5 for the 500-yd. freestyle...
...Zealand rivals in Auckland to set a spate of records. Californian Parry O'Brien put the shot 58 ft. 4 in., and heaved the discus 159 ft. 3 in., for New Zealand marks. Helped by a following wind, Texan Bobby Morrow ran off a world-record-tying loo-yd. dash (09.3 sec.). New Zealander Murray Halberg also contributed a local record with an impressive 4:02.2 mile ¶Proving just how far professional football had progressed as a crowd pleaser, President Jack Mara of the New York Giants calmly turned down an offer...