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...curves, France's narrow Rheims course, where a quarter-of-a-million fans congregate, and England's Silverstone and Goodwood courses, where the crowds reach 125,000. Italy has its closed course at Monza and the wide-open public road race of the Mille Miglia, the thousand-miler up and over the Apennines from Brescia to Rome and back, which is watched every July by a million cheering fans...
...following day, Barthel, suffering from a hip injury, lost his first indoor mile of the season. Running against his doctor's orders, the Luxembourg miler finished second, 4.5 seconds behind Northeastern's Dick Ollen, in the South Weymouth Naval Air Station Invitational Track and Field Meet. Barthel's time was 4:21.3, considerably slower than his previous times this season...
...four-minute mile will be run this year, predicted record-holding Miler (4:01.4) Gunder Hägg of Sweden. All that's necessary is that the right runners meet on the right track. "You need a small stadium. That helps block the wind . . . And above all, the runner should not be psychologically tied down. He shouldn't be afraid of the mighty four-minute mile . . . In a four-man field, with maybe one pacer for the first quarter, you can stretch out and go, smoothly and without interruption." Hägg's candidate to turn...
Norm Bruck, a potential ten-second sprinter as a freshman, is laid up with his foot in a cast. Bob Morrison, a strong quarter miler, is out ill, and other members of the undefeated freshman team have just not worked out conscientiously...
...team's outstanding miler, Gerry, will probably run the longer two-mile distance today, preparing for the big meets ahead. The Yale-Princeton meet, the IC4A, the National A.A.U., and the Heptagonals follow in successive weeks...