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Before the advent of Mr. Gehrmann in the winter track circuit last year--he had previously been concerned with winning tiny, uninteresting dual meets for the University of Wisconsin--Wilt had distance running pretty well monopolized. He had succeeded Parson Gil Dodds as mile king and was proving himself one of the best two-milers since Greg Rice. The A.A.U. had given him the Sullivan Award as the best male athlete for the 1949 year. Then came Gehrmann, and Wilt's fortunes took a decided turn for the worse...
...Great day in the morning!" cried the parson. The Rev. Robert Richards, associate professor of comparative theology at California's little (enrollment: 300) La Verne College, had good reason to use strong words. He had just learned that the Amateur Athletic Union had picked him as the outstanding amateur U.S. sportsman of 1951, and winner of its James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy. Seldom, since the first award was made in 1930, had the trophy gone to a more exemplary athlete...
...track coach. In the field events Richards turned out to be a natural, despite his lack of brawn (5 ft. 10 in., 163 Ibs.). Two months later he won the National A.A.U. decathlon title, with a score of 7,834 points, fourth best on record. In this Olympic event, Parson Richards will rate second only to Stanford's mighty Bob Mathias, the world record holder (8,042 points). Richards' self-set decathlon goal is 8,400 points*-"with the help...
...Parson Richards has not always relied on the Lord so strongly. In his sermons he recalls his boyhood in Champaign, Ill., when he wanted to become a boxer, loved violence and "was headed for juvenile delinquency." Luckily for him and the U.S. Olympic team, at 16 he fell for a girl who "wanted a Christian boy friend." After he was named second-team all-state quarterback and steered Champaign High School to the Illinois football championship, he spent 2½ years at Bridgewater College, a Church of the Brethren school in Virginia. Ordained a Brethren minister...
...eight years, and to mark the occasion, Bishop Austin Pardue came down from Pittsburgh to install him. He could have filled the vacancy before, the bishop said, but he thought it better to wait for a "good" man, like 28-year-old Walter Righter, their new parson, who had set his heart on industrial missionary work while he was still training for the ministry...