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...reach their peak before their mid-20s-Britain's Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4-min. barrier in 1954, and France's Michel Jazy, the current record holder, is 30. Ryun, at the tender age of 19, is already the second-fastest miler in history. In this month's Compton Invitational track meet at Los Angeles, he sped the distance in 3 min. 53.7 sec.-just .1 sec. off Jazy's world record. Afterward, he complained mildly that the official who was supposed to call out intermediate lap times had fallen down...
...Terribly Boring. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and scrawny (160 Ibs.), Ryun runs with about as much style as a drunken sailor -head lolling, shoulders rotating. His pulse rate (about 70) is abnormally high for a miler, his breathing rate is unusually slow, and he is prone to dizzy spells caused by a malformed bone structure in his inner...
...Wlldcats will send sophomores Dave Patrick and Ian Hamilton into both the mile and the half-mile, and may add a third miler in Charlie Messenger. Patrick has run a 4:06.7 mile and has a half-mile relay leg under 1:48, and Hamilton is just behind him in both events...
...competition will be stiff, with Notre Dame's Ed Dean, a 4:03 miler indoors, defending champion Jim Warner of Army, and Bob Zieminski of Georgetown competing for the mile title; and Richard Urbina of Georgetown, and Herb Germann of Seton Hall on hand for the half-mile...
...mile this spring but has been beaten by him twice, may choose the three mile run instead. In that event he would run against George Sheehan of Manhattan, who has run close to 14:00 in the three mile, and Barry Brown of Providence, an 8:53.1 two miler...