Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meter run is a slow, not very popular race, a dogged, grinding test of endurance that usually sends the track fans ambling out for hot dogs. But not last week, when the best U.S. team ever assembled met the best from Soviet Russia at Philadelphia's Franklin Field. Far ahead was Russia's tireless Alexei Desyatchikov. Yet the eyes were not on him. All heads turned toward the other three men-two Americans and a Russian-struggling against time and tortured bodies to win honor and points for their countries-three for second place, two for third...
Ladies First. At the end of the first day, U.S. men had won seven of ten first places, including one-two sweeps in the loo-meters, the no-meter high hurdles, the 400-meter dash, and the shotput. The only real upset in the weights was when Hammer Thrower Vasily Rudenkov got off a toss of 219 ft. to upset World Record Holder Hal Connolly...
Aside from U.S. victories in the women's 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, Russia's swift and sturdy ladies took most of the scoring honors, 67 to 40. But in the men's events. U.S. domination was never in doubt. The Red team captured the high jump, a few more distance events and the decathlon. It could not match double U.S. wins in the 200-meter, 800-meter and 1,500-meter races, and a sweep of the relays as the American men ran off with the track meet by the score...
Last week, racing on the springy new track at Zurich as a member of Cologne's A.S.V. track club, Lauer was first out of the blocks in the 110-meter high hurdles. Bending far forward as he cleared the barriers, then snapping his body erect as he hit the cinders, Grasshopper Lauer was all alone at the tape, gasped in astonishment : "It was like having hold of a truck...
...even better: 13.2, a full .2 sec. better than the world's record. With that, Lauer remarked casually, "I've got a world record coming in the 200-meter hurdles too." He did indeed, blazing home in 22.5-.1 sec. under the mark for the distance around a curve. The track club president celebrated by ordering beer for all hands. Lauer? He marked one of the great performances in track history by calmly going out to anchor the winning 400-meter relay team...