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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...
...freestyle. Marshall's time: 4:31, 2/10 of a second under his own year-old record. Against 36 Eastern colleges the Yale team swam off with eight of 14 titles. ¶ At Chicago, Don Gehrmann, the Banker's Mile in 4:09.7, over FBI-man Fred Wilt. The show-stopper in the Chicago Daily News relays: the Rev. Bob Richards' pole-vault of 15 ft. 4¾ in., his highest yet, but still three inches short of Cornelius Warmerdam's world record. ¶ At Kansas City, Hamline University, the small college National Intercollegiate (N.A.I.B.) basketball championship...
...Manhattan, Miler Fred Wilt over Don Gehrmann, for the first time in their nine meetings. Wilt got an assist from his clubmate, Stewart Ray, who let Wilt pass him, sprinted against Gehrmann. Said Wilt: "Don's still the better miler." ¶In Philadelphia, the Columbia University basketball team over Pennsylvania, 63-58, for the Ivy League title and unbeaten Columbia's 21st victory. ¶In Arcadia, Calif., longshot (10-1) Moonrush, the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, by a neck over Next Move. ¶In Hialeah, Fla., Yildiz, the $50,000 Flamingo Stakes for up & coming three-year...
...inept Champion Andy Walker. ¶In Manhattan, the Manhattan College track team over Seton Hall, 29 to 27 2/7, in the 45-college I.C.4-A meet. In the non-collegiate feature of the event, Don Gehrmann won his 39th consecutive mile, a whisker victory over FBI-man Fred Wilt. The time (for both): 4:08.6. ¶ In New Haven, Conn., Australia's (and Yale's) Swimmer John Marshall, to set a new U.S. record for the 440-yd. free style. Marshall's time for the 20-yd. course: 4:33.6, breaking Ralph Flanagan's 13-year...
...nation's two top milers, Don Gehrmann and Fred Wilt, were primed last week to win their first national indoor titles at the A.A.U. track & field championships in Manhattan. Gehrmann, who intended to run only in the 1,000-yd. event this time, never arrived; his plane was grounded in Milwaukee by bad weather. FBI-man Wilt, a New Yorker, had no such travel problems. He won the mile race (by 20 yds.) in 4:09.4. Other title winners...