Word: miler
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...yard run for his championship debut -and showed that he had momentarily forgotten all he knew about foot racing. He got off to a poor start, tried to make up too much ground too quickly, was caught in traffic jams and bumped off stride. Result: the former N.Y.U. miler came in third-behind Manhattan College's blond Fred Sickinger...
...foreign threat was Marcel Hansenne, France's ace miler, who this week landed in Manhattan, was dead set for a Feb. 2 unveiling in the Millrose mile...
...year ago the War Department announced the death of Louis Zamperini, onetime University of Southern California track star and 1936 Olympics miler-an announcement which his mother, in Torranee, Calif., refused to believe. Last week Lou Zamperini turned up. From Yokohama, Correspondent Robert Trumbull cabled the New York Times the story of what Zamperini had endured...
Guards, jabbing them with pointed sticks, made them sing and dance for their amusement, hurled them food - gobs of rice - so that they had to scramble for the grains on the filthy cell floor. Learning that Zamperini was a famous miler, they forced him to compete against healthy Jap runners, bribed him (with food) to stall so the Japs could score a glorious victory...
...Dodds saga began when, as a boy in Falls City, Nebraska, Gil Dodds threw a rock at a passing car. The occupant emerged and gave wrathful chase; Dodds gave him a good race, but finally succumbed. The driver turned out to be Lloyd Hahn, then a famous miler, and he was so surprised at being so nearly outrun that he forgot the damage to his car and gave Dodds his first real instruction in running...