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From the looks of him, New Zealand's burly Peter Snell would seem more at home blasting holes in a football line than competing against the whippet-thin men who run the mile. His shoulders are broad, his 16½-in. calves bulge with muscle, and at 171 lbs. he weighs fully 15 lbs. more than any of his competitors. Experts scoff at his size ("If he were lighter, he could run faster"), his racing tactics ("unscientific"), his graceless running style ("like a Sherman tank with overdrive"). But they all concede that, at 23, Peter Snell is the fastest...
...Zealand's Peter Snell, 23, world's fastest miler (3:54.4), over the U.S.'s best, Oregon's Dyrol Burleson, in a new American record time of 3:56.1; at Los Angeles Coliseum Relays. Burleson clung to the pace for three laps, but on the final go-round Snell turned on his famous kick, sprinted the last 220 yds. in a blazing 24.5 sec., hit the tape more than...
...month after he had stamped himself as the world's fastest miler, with a 3-min. 54.4-sec. clocking at Wanganui, New Zealand, light-footed Peter Snell (TIME, Feb. 9) also proved himself a man of his word. Promising to entertain his Auckland neighbors with a sub-4-min. mile, Snell sped across the tape...
...again," Beatty gasped afterward. "Next week I'll be going all out." Big Burst. Beatty's real competitors in Manhattan were the forbidding shadows of Ireland's Ron Delany, whom Beatty will race this week in the A.A.U. indoor meet, and New Zealand's Peter Snell, whom he will tackle next June in the outdoor A.A.U. Both races should be classics : Beatty, Delany and Snell are a study in contrasts. Tense and ready, Ron Delany, 26, is a throwback to Don Gehrmann: undefeated in 34 straight indoor miles, he pays no attention to the clock, runs...
...Unlike Snell, Jim Beatty is a "big burst" runner. Small and slight (5 ft. 5½ in., 128 Ibs.), he has the endurance to run any distance up to three miles, but his most important weapon is a reserve of speed-a big burst that he can call on at will anytime during a race. Unlike Delany, Beatty runs against the clock; his sense of timing is so precise that he needs little prompting. Now at peak condition, Beatty will concentrate on the mile this summer, but he plans an eventual assault on every world record from 1,500 meters...