Word: runners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite intermittent rain, the playing field was in surprisingly fine condition, though poorly marked off and too narrow for the Crimson backs to show off their superior speed. Many times a runner, almost in the clear as he sliced around the opponents' wing, would be forced out of bounds into the milling throng of spectators...
...McCurdy had practically given up on him as a hurdler, Tom Blodgett, already the team's best pole vaulter, demonstrated enough improvement in speed and endurance to re-establish himself as number two man behind Joel Landau. Wink Pescosolido and Pat Liles developed rapidly as low hurdlers, and distance runner Willy Thompson showed signs of life after a discouraging indoor season...
...return to form in the 440 would be heartening for those who watched him struggle through a miserable winter campaign. Trying harder in each race at the unfamiliar 600-yard distance, Gordon actually got worse as the season wore on. But he is a great competitor and a fine runner; he should come back. Art Cahn in the 880 and Jed Fitzgerald in the mile seem ready for some fine efforts...
...Gary Middlecoff, burly dentist playing in his first tournament since undergoing a hernia operation last fall, handily won the St. Petersburg (Fla.) open with a 72-hole total of 275, three strokes better than Runner-Up Pete Cooper...
Some Chinese claims bring only sniggers in the West. Rowing times, for example, are meaningless because wind and water conditions vary so widely from course to course. But Britain's Runner Sylvia Cheeseman, one of the few Western athletes to have seen the Red Chinese in training, came back from a trip behind the Bamboo Curtain convinced that Mao's big-brotherly encouragement to sport is no joke. "The coaches have to stop the athletes from killing themselves with overwork," she says. "The Chinese will be among the top three or four nations in sport in the next...