Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lead, whirling round and round, averaging a blazing 150 m.p.h. By the 24th lap, he was already lapping stragglers. On the 64th lap, he pulled into the pits, picked up three new tires (the left front tire was still unworn) and a tank of methanol-all in 25.1 sec. But whish! whish!, there went the Lotuses. Short as it was, Jones's pit stop had cost him the lead. After 75 laps, Clark and Gurney were one-two; Parnelli Jones was third, 18 sec. behind. Now, all the Lotuses had to do was hold on. Could they...
...understand all the fuss about this meet," said New Zealand's Peter Snell, 24, on the eve of the California Relays at Modesto, Calif. Lounging beside a motel pool, arm in arm with his bride of two weeks, the world's fastest miler (3 min. 54.4 sec.) hardly looked like a man facing the sternest test of his career. He dismissed his chief competitor, the U.S.'s Jim Beatty, a 3-min. 56.3-sec. miler, with a scornful shrug: "This Beatty doesn't hold any decent record at all." He snorted at the suggestion that Beatty...
...Miracle Miles' were laid end to end," protested one old track hand, "they'd reach straight to heaven." But superlatives could be forgiven. Besides Snell and Beatty, the eight-man field included three other sub-4-min. milers: California's Jim Grelle (3 min. 56.7 sec.), and Bobby Seaman (3 min. 58 sec.), Marine Lieut. Gary Weisiger (3 min. 58.1 sec.). Each had a plan for winning: beat Snell. "If we don't beat this guy on his honeymoon," said Weisiger, "we'll never beat...
...same as if he had kicked them all squarely in the shins. Hrrrooommm! He flashed past Grelle and Weisiger and drew away-5 yds., then 10, then 15. At the finish line, coasting now, he was 20 yds. in front. Officials announced the time: 3 min. 54.9 sec.-the fastest mile ever run in the U.S., the third fastest in history...
...paid vacation to Florida. At Hialeah Park he met Florida Builder Fred Hooper, who let Baeza breeze one of his horses through a four-furlong workout. "What was your time?" asked Hooper when it was over. "Forty-nine." said Baeza. Hooper checked his stop watch: it showed 49½ sec. "You've got a job," he said. One out of Three. Few jockeys