Word: metering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whitfield, a gold-medal winner at Helsinki and London, punished his aching body to the limit and sped past the 800-meter finish only a tenth of a second slower than his Olympic record of 1952. But he could not win. He was fifth. Whitfield's plight was typical of last week's two-day Olympic trials at Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum...
Minor records fell like bricks in a California earthquake. The new Olympic team includes 1) the only three 60-ft. shotputters in the world, 2) the only 15-ft. vaulters, 3) the fastest 400-meter and no-meter hurdlers on earth, and 4) a sprinter who can run as fast as Jesse Owens. In this sudden-death competition, two other 1952 Olympic winners (Harrison Dillard and Lindy Remigino) failed even to qualify, and one world-record holder (Lon Spurrier) could only make third place...
...Dave Sime broke from the starting blocks in his trial heat, took four strides and collapsed onto the track, a flame of pain burning in his groin. The U.S. Olympic Committee had waived a sound rule, but on sound sentiment, to allow Sime to compete in the 200 meters after the same pulled muscle kept him from qualifying at the N.C.A.A. trials. But Sime could not even finish the 100, and slamming his fist against a locker-room door later, he moaned: "What shall I do now? What?" Abilene Christian's Bobby Morrow, perhaps a faster man anyway...
...Meter Hurdles. Until 9:30 on the first evening of the trials, the world record of 0:50.4 was held by Russia's Yuriy Lituyev. Forty-nine and a half seconds later, two Americans had broken it and a third had tied it. The finish: Glenn Davis of Ohio State, University of Texas' Eddie Southern, and Josh Culbreath of Maryland's Morgan State College and the U.S. Marines...
...National A.A.U. track and field championships at Bakersfield, Calif., last chance for U.S. athletes to qualify for the final Olympic trials in Los Angeles this week, Abilene Christian's blond blur, Bobby Morrow, paced the sprinters with a world-record-tying 0:10.2 in a 100-meter heat. (At Berkeley doctors hoped that Duke's David Sime, recuperating from a pulled groin muscle, would be able to resume his duel with Morrow at Los Angeles and try for an Olympic berth.) Pitt's lithe Negro star Arnie Sowell easily stood off Olympic Champion Mai Whitfield...