¶ Sprinting in nearly perfect step, Australia's 19-year-old Herb Elliott and Mervyn Lincoln whipped across the finish line of a mile race in Perth, Australia in the identical time of 3:59.6. The winner by microseconds: Elliott, running his third successive mile in under 4 min. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Dublin's Ron Delany loafed through the second and third quarters but finished flat out to win in the slowpoke time of 4:10 over Hungary's Istvan Rozsavolgyi, who was running his first race in the U.S.
¶ In Melbourne, Australia's Johnny Monckton, a 19-year-old carpenter, bettered the world's record for the 100-meter...
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