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...will to the self-torture of laboring lap after lap, mile after mile. Most of the top distance runners are well into their 20s, and often beyond. But this year the perennial stars are being run into the boards by a Canadian high school senior: 17-year-old Bruce Kidd, the neighborhood newsboy back home in Toronto, who can cruise through the three-mile grind as though it were a jaunt to the corner soda shop...
This season Kidd killed off Ireland's 31-year-old Pete McArdle and Britain's 39-year-old Fred Norris to win a two-mile in Boston Garden in 8:49.2-nearly a full minute faster than any other schoolboy had ever before run the distance. In the U.S. championships at Madison Square Garden, Kidd won the three-mile in 13:47 while trouncing Record Holder Al Lawrence, 30. In Chicago, running in the cramped event of the mile that barely let him get warmed up, Kidd not only finished a respectable second to Hungary's lean...
...doing what comes naturally." Plumbing the Well. Most U.S. high schools ban the two-mile on the grounds that it is too tough for any teenager, but Kidd looks astonishingly fresh when he finishes. Says he: "There's really no point in collapsing, is there?" When Kidd began winning races this season, U.S. colleges jostled like runners in a mile relay to offer him scholarships...
Wherever he ends up, Kidd's future is bright. "I actually have no idea of Bruce's real potential," says Coach Foot, who guides his protege during a race with hand signals. "He's like a well-he doesn't seem to have any bottom." And if he develops at a reasonable rate as he grows older and stronger, bottomless Bruce Kidd is quite likely to become one of the great distance men in track history...
...Garden crowd, hungry for a hero of any description, cheered Kidd for five solid minutes. Crimson supporters had a special reason to be elated, for it became known during the evening that Kidd, an excellent student, may come to Harvard next fall it all goes well...