¶At Perth, Australia, Miler John Landy fell far short in his bid for the four-minute mile. His winning time (4:04.2), posted on a grass track, was well behind his best effort (4:02.1), set last month over a hard-packed, windy course.
¶At the Philadelphia Inquirer Games, Navy Lieut. (j.g.) Ken Wiesner, Olympic runner-up, went up & over the high-jump bar for a world indoor record of 6 ft. 9½ in.¼ inch above the old (1937) record set by a fellow Marquette graduate Ed Burke.
¶In New Orleans, the Louisiana State Athletic Commission got around to throwing out a 60-year-old rule that prohibited Negro...
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