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...Look out, Wilt! Gehrmann's behind you!" shouted a wag as the runners pounded around the first turn of Madison Square Garden's indoor track. FBI Man Fred Wilt, running in a special two-mile race in the IC4A meet last week, ignored the gibe, but he could hardly miss hearing the excited murmur of the crowd when the time at the mile mark was announced: 4:25.1. Racing once more at his favorite distance, Wilt was no longer playing pacesetter for Don Gehrmann's come-from-behind winning sprints at the mile...
Bill Ashenfelter, A.A.U. cross-country champion, had set the early pace, but he dropped out soon after the mile mark. He turned the pacesetter's role over to his brother Horace Ashenfelter, Wilt's brother FBI man. At the mile-and-a-half mark, Official Timer Greg Rice, holder of the world indoor record, took a look at his watch (6:41.2) and shrugged. "Well," he said, "there goes my record...
...Fred Wilt, the Baxter mile, in a photo finish over Don Gehrmann; in Manhattan. For the first time in six races with Wilt this year, Gehrmann's characteristic kick sprint fell short. Time...
...Gehrmann, the season's fastest indoor mile (4:08.4), ahead-as usual-of FBI Man Fred Wilt; in Milwaukee. Earlier, the Rev. Bob Richards pole-vaulted 15 ft. 4 5/8 in., his second-best ever, then missed three tries at beating Cornelius Warmerdam's record of 15 ft. 8½ in. The next night in Boston, Gehrmann (4:08.9) and Richards (15 ft. 2 7/8 in.) did it again...
...winning (and second-place) time: 4:11.2. Though the clocking was disappointingly slow-Gehrmann beat Wilt in the same race last year in 4:07.5-Gehrmann proved to have the right idea about what the crowd likes. His sprint finish had it screaming...