Word: sime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charging into a mild (3 m.p.h.) head wind, Duke's fleet-footed, redheaded Blue Devil, David Sime (TIME, May 21), ran the 100-yd. dash in a world-record-tying 0:09.3 at the Carolina A.A.U. meet in Raleigh...
...lead and then ease up. He won breezing. Then they looked at their watches again. In his qualifying heat for the 220-yd. dash at the Atlantic Coast Conference track meet in Durham, N.C. last week, long-legged (6 ft. 2 in., 187 Ibs.) Duke Sophomore Dave Sime (rhymes with skim) had run off a casual 0:20.1 to crack Mel Patton's seven-year-old world record by a tenth of a second. Next day, running into a light head wind, Sime had to settle for 0:09.5 in the 100-yd. dash...
Setting world records is getting to be old hat with trim young (19) Sprinter Sime. This winter he set a new mark for the indoor 100-yd. dash (0:09.5); fortnight ago he shaved the 220-yd. low-hurdle record to 0:22.2. And if his father, Aircraft Plant Guard Charles Sime, has his way, the rapid young man will be a long time slowing down. After his world-record dash last week, Dave had hardly caught his breath when he was talking on the telephone to his dad in Fair Lawn, N.J. "Next time do it faster," was Charles...
Backyard Hoop. A veteran of professional baseball and basketball, Father Sime has always felt a drive to teach his son his own driving urge to excel in sports. As soon as young Dave could handle a basketball there was a backyard hoop. "When I was five," he recalls, "Dad had me out hitting baseballs. Dad always told me to run faster, throw harder, hit farther. He never has been completely satisfied...
Poised for Bop. Sime had a lot to learn. But he was willing. He ran up and down the deep rows of seats in Duke stadium to build up his stamina and improve his balance. "Balance is everything," he says-and when he is going well, he is so perfectly poised that he seems to float over the cinders. He is also incredibly relaxed during a meet, a quality he attributes to his dancing to bebop music whenever he can. "A good bop keeps you nice and loose. If I go out and bop, I feel O.K. the next...