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...many were married, and some had kids at home. At one training table, nobody followed the ancient Greek rule - designed to prevent dyspepsia and headaches - that only the lightest topics be discussed at mealtimes. The conversation volleyed from the high price of neckties to reincarnation (one sprinter wanted to come back as a dog, another as a race horse). Then it lit on the most dyspeptic subject of all - track. The lean steeplechaser asked a half-miler: "Does all that sugar and dextrose you guys fill up on help...
...straight, but was out of the trials with a strained Achilles tendon in his left foot. He was off the team-but still far & away the best U.S. miler. After Dodds, the U.S. sure shots, everybody agreed, were Negro Shot-Putter Chuck Fonville of Michigan, Sprinter Mel Patton of Southern California, and Negro High-Hurdler Harrison Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace. Each, in the past year, has broken a world's record...
...coordination. A hammer thrower should be able to start quickly, hold himself stiff without breaking at the waist, and on the turns, glide, not jump across the circle to the final explosive pivot lift. Some experts say he should be able to run 25 yards as fast as a sprinter. Felton can't break 12 seconds in the 100, but he has marvelous timing, and he glides across the circle with the deadly smoothness of a burning fuse sizzling toward a keg of dynamite...
What is worrying Mikkola is the condition of two of his best men: sprinter Jon Spivak and javelin-thrower Don Trimble. Spivak will definitely not run tomorrow. And Trimble, who set a new Harvard javelin record two weeks ago, has been cradling his sore arm in a sling all week. The Medical Department will decide tomorrow morning whether it's safe for him to throw against Yale...
...sprinter, Tom Carney, and a capable broadjumper, Bill Maze. But the Terriers knuckled under to Amherst last Saturday, 80 to 53, while Harvard was snapping a 12-year Rhode Island State dual meet winning skein...