Word: miler
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...amazement of 15,000 track fans at Madison Square Garden, the Reverend Gil Dodds* bolted straightaway into the lead. Their Iron Deacon, the greatest miler the U.S. ever produced, usually waits a lap or two before showing his heels. As he sped around the board track, his arms flailing like windmills, Dodds heard a heavy-set man in a tuxedo chanting out the time to him: "Twenty-point-five . . . twenty-two," and he knew he was running well...
...Ruby, scheduled to run the second leg tonight, provides perhaps the strongest wallop. Ruby, Wheeler and Thayer, by the way, all got their cinder schooling in Milton. Ruby was a star sprinter and quarter miler for the High School in 1944-45, the same year Thayer was cleaning up across town at the Academy. Wheeler set an Academy quarter mile record a couple of years earlier...
...year. 1936 was a leap year and back then in the early era of Roosevelt the last Olympic games were held. In that year Jesse Owens streaked to four world's records in the Berlin Stadium, the University of Washington crew edged the best eights in the world, and miler Lou Zamperini climbed up a flagpole after a swastika and shinnied right into an international incident. Perhaps it's a sign that peace is really here; for in 1948 the world plans to hold another edition of the Olympic games this time in London, England...
...engineering student at Berkeley, Bob made Tau Beta Pi (the engineers' version of Phi Beta Kappa), a feat which he has attributed more to his photographic memory than to any scholarly gifts. He was also a Big Man on Campus: a star two-miler, class president, Y.M.C.A. president, manager of the "Big C Sirkus" carnival, R.O.T.C. regimental captain, drum major of the band...
...Quarter-miler Cliff Wharton and sprinter Dean Dunlavey were the only additional entries yesterday as the Varsity entrained for West Point, where they have a formal cinder date with Army, Missouri, Dartmouth and Columbia this afternoon. Forty competitors, a manager, coach, and trainer made up the Crimson encourage...