Word: wilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making a clean sweep of sled titles in Germany's first postwar try at the world championships. ¶In Seattle, Dick Button, 21, world figure-skating champion, for his sixth consecutive national title. ¶In Boston, Miler Don Gehrmann, for his sixth straight victory over FBI-man Fred Wilt, in the track-record time...
Richards' jump, the No. 1 sport news in the U.S. last week, stole the show from the top-billed event at the Garden: Don Gehrmann and Fred Wilt in the Wanamaker Mile. Last year's disputed photo finish took ten months to settle. This time Gehrmann won from Wilt by six yards, in his best time ever...
...successive one-night stands in Philadelphia and Boston last week, Gehrmann and Wilt went after each other again, and Parson Richards went after 15 feet. With the officials behaving impeccably this time, there was no doubt whatever about the results...
...Fred Wilt, 30, a Manhattan FBI man in working hours, announced his strategy for the Philadelphia Inquirer Mile in advance: to set a fast pace in order to tire Don Gehrmann as much as possible, take the edge off Gehrmann's famous last-lap sprinting...
...Wilt's timing was way off. He ran the first three-quarters in a stodgy 3:11.6, leaving 23-year-old Gehrmann plenty of finishing kick. Gehrmann scooted past in the last 70 yards, won by a clear seven. The time (not fast, not slow): 4:12.4. In Boston next night, Gehrmann repeated the lesson, won by ten yards in the time...