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...crack of the starter's gun, Mal Whitfield broke from his crouch and eased into his power-glide stride. The four-man field in the 500-yd. race whirled around the first turn, Whitfield dead last. Then Whitfield began to pass the others, one by one, in short but conclusive bursts of speed. His theory, which has carried him to two consecutive Olympic gold medals at 800 meters: "Pass them big-then they won't try to come back...
Going into the last lap, Mal Whitfield had only one man ahead of him: Jamaica's Herb McKenley, world-record holder at 440 yds. Shortening his 8-ft. stride to fast-stepping six-footers, Whitfield visibly pulled himself together for the final burst. He passed McKenley "big," whirled into the final turn in front, breasted the red-yarn tape alone as the Madison Square Garden crowd of 12,364 rose to its feet and roared approval. The crowd roared again when the time was announced: 0.56.6, a new indoor record...
World-Record Program. "Marvelous Mal" never runs a poor race, win or lose. Fortnight ago in Boston, he equaled the world indoor record of 1:10.2 for 600 yards (TIME, Feb. 9), but his deceptively effortless stride made it appear that he could have done even better. An official criticized him for not breaking the record, accused him of not trying. Ordinarily good-natured and tractable, Whitfield later bristled: "What did he want, blood...
...himself up for competition unless the stakes are of near-Olympic level, he has set himself an improbable and almost impossible goal: ten world records, indoors & out, between 440 and 1,000 yards. At 28, planning to buckle down to work in the hotel business in Los Angeles, Mal Whitfield knows that time is catching up with him. But, in the month since he announced his world-record program, his score is one down, one tied, and eight...
...Olympic two-mile relay team of Bill Ashenfelter, Reggie Pearman, Johnny Barnes and Mal Whitfield, by 40 yards over Britain's team, to set a world mark of 7 min. 29.2 sec.; U.S. Hurdler Charley Moore, through a driving rain, the 440-yd. event in a world record 51.6 sec.; at the post-Olympic British Games in London...