Sport: Dream Boy

The fastest schoolboy in the nation won his 40th straight race last week. For the third year in a row he won both the 100-and 220-yd. dashes in the Texas State meet. Last year he ran 100 yards just one-tenth of a second slower than the world record of 9.4.

This coach's dream is Charley Parker of Jefferson High School, San Antonio. He graduates this spring, and hopes to get in some college training under the Army's A-12 program. His high-school coaches call him "the ideal athlete." He never breaks training, is president of the Student Council, and gets nothing less than...

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