Word: wilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are no professionals in track, at least according to popular theory. One often wonders, then, just why a fine runner like Fred Wilt places his head on the chopping block twice a week for over a four month stretch...
...real tests were just beginning. As the strain of the big tournaments begins to tell, and the weather heats up enough to wilt the elder statesmen of the game, the crocodiles would be getting some rugged competition from younger saurians. Chief among them...
...Canada's Fred Wilt...
When Bannister stepped on to the track last week against Don Gehrmann and Fred Wilt, the best of the U.S. milers, conditions were far from ideal for a fast race. The new quarter-mile track had been churned up by some 3,000 pounding runners, a gusty wind was blowing, and any time under 4:10 seemed highly unlikely. For the first half mile Bannister was content to stay with the pack (paced at a stodgy 2:06.2 by Stewart Ray). But before the four runners hit the three-quarter mark, Bannister, clearly impatient with the pace, lengthened his rangy...
...never stopped sprinting. His whirlwind 56.7 final quarter, run with a graceful, almost lazy style, was the most dazzling burst ever seen in the 57-year history of the Penn Relays. It completely beat down Wilt and an off-form Gehrmann, and wiped out Glenn Cunningham's 17-year-old Penn Relay record by 3.5 sec. Bannister's time...