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...capable of a ten-second 100 and a 5.5-second 50. Murray Pearlstein tries too hard, but runs quite well when he concentrates on form. Dave Carter, Bill Geick, and Larry Sperber are fair. Thayer can do rather well in the 220 but is essentially a quarter-miler...
...Wisconsin's 22-year-old Don Gehrmann, win again against 1950's middle-distance sensation, 29-year-old FBI-Man Fred Wilt? Gehrmann, a brown-haired Milwaukee boy, had a precious asset-speed in the homestretch drive. But Wilt, a converted cross-country man and two-miler with a "clock in his head," had been winning steadily by killing his opposition with his early pace (TIME...
...hours he takes on job No. 2. He goes home to Brooklyn and runs a dozen miles in the park; early each morning he runs some more. By last week, this sort of routine had helped make slender (145 Ibs.), 29-year-old G-Man Wilt the best two-miler in the U.S. and a real threat to current U.S. mile king Don Gehrmann of Wisconsin...
Frank Effinger, Yale's top-rate miler, failed in yesterday's race, placing 11th in order of finish. Dave Gregory, running eighth, was first in the Harvard entry. Captain Joe Leeming, running only his third race of the season, followed Gregory at ninth place...
...casual as possible. With us, track is for relaxation and recreation." Britain's easygoing invaders carried informality so far that their only "coach" was a slender, 20-year-old Oxford medical student, Roger Bannister, who was also the squad's captain and star miler...