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...Three months before the opening of the indoor-track season, Lieut. Wes Santee of the U.S. Marine Corps displayed mid-season form at an Olympic Carnival in New York's Madison Square Garden. Miler Santee easily outdistanced six competitors and ran the mile in 4:05.2, less than two seconds off the Garden record...
...National League record for four-baggers hit by a pitcher in a single season, shared by the Giants' Hal Schumacher and the Boston Braves' Jim Tobin. He is well on his way to reaching the American League record of nine homers, held by Cleveland's Wes Ferrell...
...leaders to come to the White House this week and help him plan how to lure more young Americans into competitive sports. Among those on the guest list: Golfer Bobby Jones, former Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, Army Football Coach Earl Blaik, Tennistar Tony Trabert, Track Stars Mal Whitfield and Wes Santee, Light-Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, National Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Champion Barbara Romack, Navy Football Coach Eddie Erdelatz, U.S. Open Golf Champion Jack Fleck, onetime U.S. Sculling Champion John B. Kelly (father of Oscar-winning Cinemactress Grace Kelly...
...level proved a tonic for the University of Pittsburgh's Arnie Sowell, winner of the 880-yd. run in 1 min. 47.6 sec., a full second under Mai Whitfield's listed world record. The atmosphere was not so kind to the milers: the U.S. Marines' Wes Santee, top U.S. hope for cracking the 4-minute-mile barrier, beat out his old rival, the Army's Fred Dwyer, by 25 yards, but Winner Santee's time was a lackadaisical...
...With a balmy spring breeze to hinder him in the stretch and a jivey Texas Longhorn band to egg him along, Kansan Wes Santee ran his first outdoor mile of the season at the Texas relays, broke his own American record by one-tenth of a second, edged up within a stride of the four-minute mile. His time...