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...Miler Zwirner and half-milers Dick McCready and Gene Shahan have all recorded creditable times so far this season, but Reider and Phil Williams in the mile, and Williams and Cairns in the 880 have done better...
Actually, the team contained a nucleus of consistent performers who could be counted on for big points in every meet. Two-miler Pete Reider, captain Dick Wharton, Jim Cairns, record-holder in both the 600 and the 1000, and Harpel, all seniors but Reider, had been the big point producers for three years...
...Villanova Miler Ron Delany reeled off an effortless 4:03.8 at the Chicago Daily News Relays, whipped Maryland's Burr Grim by 25 yds., came within two-tenths of a second of the American indoor record...
When he let U.S. Miler Fred Dwyer talk him into leaving home to take an athletic scholarship at Villanova University, on Philadelphia's Main Line, Delany made a wise choice. In Villanova's Coach Jim ("Jumbo") Elliott he found a man perfectly attuned to his own theories of running. "I want him running only fast enough to win," says Jumbo. "I've seen too many potentially great milers burn themselves out by running fast week after week." Now that he has taught Ron to relax his arms and shoulders, to get the most out of his quick...
...With his countryman John Landy, the world's fastest miler, on hand to watch him perform, Australia's Herb Elliott, 19, spun around the fine track at Melbourne's Olympic Stadium in a spectacular 4:00.4. Sure that he had seen his probable successor, retired Champion Landy announced: "Here is the greatest natural runner I have ever seen...