Word: wilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clock In the Head. The question to be decided: Could last year's winner, the University of Wisconsin's 22-year-old Don Gehrmann, win again against 1950's middle-distance sensation, 29-year-old FBI-Man Fred Wilt? Gehrmann, a brown-haired Milwaukee boy, had a precious asset-speed in the homestretch drive. But Wilt, a converted cross-country man and two-miler with a "clock in his head," had been winning steadily by killing his opposition with his early pace (TIME...
...Wilt to fight for the lead. But as the field jostled into the first of the high-banked turns, Gehrmann's red jersey was in front; it stayed there. He ran the first quarter in a brisk 59.3, the second in a slow 64.8. Wilt toiled calmly along in the pack...
...kept passing me . . ." As the crowd roared at the action on the steep turns and in the short straightaways, Yale's tall George Wade took the lead. John Twomey of the Illinois Athletic Club shouldered past him. With 2½ laps to go and Gehrmann apparently in trouble, Wilt swung ahead of the field...
...ankle hurt and he had a bad second-row starting position. At the first turn, Fred Wilt lagged along in last place. The announcer gave the time for the quarter: 60.3. That was just about what Wilt had counted on. He couldn't afford a slow pace. Because he lacked the kind of speed that allows a man to burst into a blazing "big kick" finish, Wilt held to the strategy of keeping the field stepping along so that no one else could save up for a big kick. He let out a notch, moved into second place...
...strategy worked. In the stretch only wiry Fred Wilt seemed to have anything left. He pulled away to win by eight yards in 4:11.8, the fastest Inquirer Mile ever run. In Boston next night, he ran away with the Knights of Columbus two-mile for his fifth straight win. That set the stage for the big event of 1950's indoor track season. This week Special Agent Wilt will have a chance to catch Wisconsin's Gehrmann in the classic Wanamaker Mile at Madison Square Garden...