Sport: Assault on the Hundred

Since he swept the short dash events at the 1956 Olympic Games, 23-year-old Bobby Morrow, late of Texas' Abilene Christian College, has been recognized as the world's No. 1 sprinter. But this year Morrow has won occasionally but lost often—not because he is running any slower but because a new crop of sprinters has appeared to make a wholesale onslaught on the 9.3-sec. world record for the 100-yd. dash. So far this year three of Morrow's challengers—Bill Woodhouse, Ray Norton and Roscoe Cook—have equaled the world record.

Bill Woodhouse, 22, hardly looks like a...