Word: nielsens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pace for the first three-quarters of the mile run, then burned up the boards of the Madison Square Garden track in a last-quarter dash that brought him home in a meet-record 4:07.9, three yards ahead of his persistent rivals, Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen and Private Fred Dwyer. Earlier, on the Garden's crowded infield, Lieut. Parry O'Brien put the 16-lb. shot to a new world indoor record...
...fine pacesetter the last two times they ran. Wes took over the lead and hustled through the first quarter in a man-killing 56.6 seconds. If he had his way, no one was going to get close enough to nudge him with a free-swinging elbow; neither Gunnar Nielsen nor anyone else was going to have enough kick left to catch him in the stretch...
...while, it seemed as if Santee's early speed might pay off. Nielsen was rattled at the sight of his rival pulling away, shifted into high and ran his heart out closing the gap. Only Dwyer, striding smoothly some 30 yards back, was wise enough to run his own race. His discipline made Santee look like a schoolboy...
...Dwyer refused to be tricked into that early scrap. He held himself in, listened like an old-timer to that split-second stopwatch ticking in his head. Up forward, Santee finished the first half in 1:59. It was too fast. Both he and Nielsen were running down. With four laps to go, Freddie Dwyer knew it was time to move. Taking no chances of repeating the past week's roughhouse, he swung to the outside and began his sprint...
Santee was finished; Nielsen was fading fast. While the two leaders had run themselves rubber-legged, Dwyer had timed himself perfectly. He crossed the line in 4:06.2, a new Baxter record. Some 65 yards back was Nielsen, the world's fastest indoor miler. And three yards behind him staggered Wes Santee. the Kansas cyclone that had blown itself...