Word: metering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Carin took to the water so naturally that he sent her to a swimming coach to find out how good she really was. Today, at 16, Carin is good enough to hold all four American women's backstroke titles (100 and 200 yds., 100 and 200 meters). Last week, in the National A.A.U.'s women's championships at Tyler, Texas, Carin pinwheeled up the Olympic (50-meter) course to a new record of 2:43.8 in the 200-meter backstroke. Next night she lowered the American 100 meter backstroke mark...
After Carin did "all of it," last week in the 200-meter race, she joined the other girls in the coffee shop at Tyler's Blackstone Hotel. Between events, blonde, blue-eyed Carin was just another casual, crop-haired, broad-shouldered, high-school girl-as cool and pretty as peach ice cream, and bouncingly healthy. But like the others who had also set their share of records (the Walter Reed Swim Club's Shelley Mann set new world marks of 1:11.8 in the 100 meter butterfly, 2:44.4 in the 200-meter butterfly...
...only Harvardmen competing for Olympic positions were Bob Rittenburg, captain of the 1955 Crimson track squad, and Pete Harpel, the track team's leading hammer-thrower this year. Rittenburg won his heat in the 440 meter hurdles but could not quite make it in the finals as three of his opponents broke the existing world record. Harpel finished well out of the running in the hammer...
...Meter High Hurdles. U.S.C.'s Jack Davis (Navy), who set a new world record in the A.A.U. meet a week earlier, was matched stride for stride by Lee Calhoun from North Carolina College, in a 0:13.8 dead heat...
...Meter Steeplechase. FBI agent Horace Ashenfelter won the event at Helsinki in 1952; in Los Angeles he was lucky to get third place as Phil Coleman of the Chicago Track Club tirelessly cleared the hurdles and splashed through the water jump for a new meet record...