Word: ron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herb Elliott and Mervyn Lincoln whipped across the finish line of a mile race in Perth, Australia in the identical time of 3:59.6. The winner by microseconds: Elliott, running his third successive mile in under 4 min. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Dublin's Ron Delany loafed through the second and third quarters but finished flat out to win in the slowpoke time of 4:10 over Hungary's Istvan Rozsavolgyi, who was running his first race...
...Kozol faces Ron Hummel in the 137-pound class. Crimson captain Bob Foster will wrestle Frank Stoever in the 167-pound class. Foster has won all his matches so far this season, and should win over Stoever, who is substituting for injured Tiger Donald Teegarden...
...total replaces the former record of 1411 scored against Bowdoin in a postal match Dec. 11. High scorer in the Invitational Meet was Dick Murphy with 286 points. Captain Lance Fair followed with 285 points. Bill Garrison shot third with 282, leading Ron Simon at 281 and John Phelps...
...crowd. And this time he tried. He settled into his snug, easygoing stride and watched Maryland's Burr Grim sprint ahead of him into a swift first quarter. Clearly, Grim was going to try to pace him past Gunnar Nielsen's indoor mark of 4:03.6. And Ron was willing. But he thought Grim was starting just a little too fast and he hung back, well off the pace. When Grim faded, Ron got up on his toes and ran for the record. But he was running all alone. There was no one left to push...
...When will you try for a record, Ron?" a friend had asked him before the race. "When the beer cans come sailing out of the Garden gallery," he answered. But he changed his mind, and the indoor track season took on some luster as Ron's all-out effort promised some great miles to come...