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...rain-dampened track at Melbourne's Olympic stadium, World Champion Miler John Landy figured to run his favorite distance in no better than 4:04. But as he breezed past the three-quarter-mile mark he heard his time announced as 3 min. flat. He decided to turn it on, finished the final quarter in a blazing 58.6 sec. to break the 4-min. barrier for the fourth time in five races. The 3:58.6 time is 0.6 sec. off Landy's world record...
Bill Morris led off the quarter-mile leg for the varsity. Ken Wilson ran the three-quarter mile leg and Dick Norris the half-mile. Miler Pete Reider anchored the team...
...While lawyers tangled in a marathon argument over his amateur status. Marine Miler Wes Santee ran another of his special races against token competition in the Cleveland K. of C. games. For a change, the fast-talking Kansan turned in a fast time on the track: 4:06.9, his best performance of the winter indoor season...
...sold out his amateur standing for the pottage ($25 a week) of two summers of bush league baseball, amateur athletes have worked at padding their expense accounts as assiduously as they have worked at their chosen sports. But the subterfuge never appealed to Kansas Runner Wes Santee. Fastest miler in U.S. history (4:00.5), Wes was out to make his way from his speed on the track-and he cared not who knew what he was doing. Rarely did his expense accounts contain the creative writing and fantastic arithmetic of the standard swindle sheet. When Wes bulldozed track meet promoters...
...secret that other track stars have long taken money under the table. But they do their best not to get caught. Once in a while, as in the case of Finland's great Miler Paavo Nurmi, their financial shenanigans have come to light, and resulted in suspensions from amateur competition. In the U.S. the hardheaded high brass of the A.A.U. have cracked down on the few flagrant cases they could hardly overlook. Little has been done, however, to liberalize the main cause of the cheating-the outdated ceiling of $15 a day on athletes' expense accounts...