Word: whitfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston, Mai Whitfield, twice Olympic champion at 800 meters and undefeated on the indoor tracks this year, won the 600-yard run in 1:10.2, equaling the indoor record set by the late John Borican (1941) and tied by Hugh Short...
Something Wrong. In Chicago, Robert Whitfield and Douglas Henderson painted a truck yellow to look like a city vehicle, loaded two tons of city-owned steel pipe in a municipal construction yard until detectives became suspicious "because they were working so hard...
...Olympic two-mile relay team of Bill Ashenfelter, Reggie Pearman, Johnny Barnes and Mal Whitfield, by 40 yards over Britain's team, to set a world mark of 7 min. 29.2 sec.; U.S. Hurdler Charley Moore, through a driving rain, the 440-yd. event in a world record 51.6 sec.; at the post-Olympic British Games in London...
...Mathias' Tulare neighbors, setting an Olympic discus mark of 180 ft. 6.85 in., breaking the 1948 record of Italy's Adolpho Consolini. ¶ Parson Bob Richards, who set an Olympic pole vault record of 14 ft. 11.14 in. ¶ U.S. Air Force Sergeant Mai Whitfield, who tied his own 1948 Olympic record to take the 800-meter run in 1 min. 49.2 sec., later missed his try for a second gold medal in the 400-meter run (won by Jamaica's George Rhoden in a record...
...should have little trouble in the sprints and hurdles, with men like Harrison Dillard (no-meter hurdles), Charles Moore (400-meter hurdles), Andy Stanfield (200 meters) and Mai Whitfield (800 meters). But as the races lengthen from 1,500 meters to the 26-mile marathon, the Swedes, Finns, Slavs and Britons take over...