Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roberson ran nip and tuck for the first six hurdles as both pulled away from the rest of the field. Again Landau's conditioning proved the big margin as he pulled away and finished the race all by himself. His winning time of 22.9 seconds broke his day-old record, but was disallowed because of a trailing wind of five and one-half miles, one-half mile too much for an official record...
...addition to these two records, Landau set a new indoor 60-yard high hurdles mark of :07.3 seconds, breaking the old mark of :07.4, and he added the 220-yard dash record to his string by running a 21.0 against Army. By way of completing his dossier, Landau has also run a :09.8 100, which would have tied the Harvard mark, but that, too, was disallowed because of a trailing wind...
...virtual tie for second, and sideline observers felt that he had finished second, or at least no worse than third. However, the judges saw it differently, giving him fourth and eliminating him from further competition. The second place time was :48.3, only .3 seconds off the Harvard record...
...Berkley for the NCAA tournament June 13-14 at the University of California. There Landau will meet the best in collegiate hurdling, including Elias Gilbert of Winston-Salem, and Glenn Davis of Ohio State, the Olympic 400-meter hurdles champion. Gilbert last week broke the world's record in the 440-yard dash...
...Yankees' Whitey Ford tied a National League record by striking out six consecutive batters, Hank Bauer belted two home runs and Mickey Mantle one, as the Yankees shut out Chicago...