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and not a bad golfer, made this re
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"It's surprising how long it takes
a fellow to get into hard competitive
condition?and what a short time it
takes to get out again." And Vines
was a hard trainer.
This happens to be completely
true. It is one answer to Guilder
Unonn'e oknnrina in
the recent IC 4A
games at Madison
Square Garden
where he practical
ly collapsed in the
mile run. Haegg,
the great Swedish
flash, oudoors and
in shape, has run
the mile in 4.02. He
was timed around
4.31 over an indoor
track with no
chance to train, soon after he
landed.
This means a lost or missing mar
gin close to 29 seconds?or some
thing more than 150 yards. In the
best mile that Haegg ever ran he
would have beaten Rafferty's 4:16.4
mile by over 90 yards. For a 4.16
mile is barely more than a gallop.
Looking as far back as Joie Ray, a i
4 IS mile wnvld ha"p a com
mon canter for the old-timer.
Rafferty has always been a fight
ing miler. Then we had Nurmi's
4:10.4. And Nurmi was one of the
great runners of all time. From that
mile to 10,000 meters. From that
point on down to Arne Andersson's
record mile in 4:1.6 we have seen
the records fall?via Glen Cunning
ham, Lovelock, Haegg and others
who hammered the figures down,
split second by split second.
But in all this natural ability has
needed the hardest sort of work,
plus able trainers and able coaches
who have yet to receive the credit
they deserved.
Gander Hmecs
The Greatest Race
To me the mile has always been
the greatest of all races. It com
bines more in the way of speed and
stamina than any other distance.
The 100 yards?the 220?even the
quarter?are largely speed tests. Al
though it must be admitted that the
440 yard dash, or the quarter, is
also a killing distance, calling for
extended speed. But the mile is
something in between the sprints
and the longer distance races,
leading up to the marathon.
The average, normal human be
ing from city and farm, usually
talks and thinks in terms of the
mile. It is a mile to some place?or
5 miles?or 10 miles. You know just
about what that means.
The mile today is the ideal com
bination of speed and stamina?a
race that draws and keeps the
crowds interest. The 100 and the 220
are over in too much of a hurry
while the 2 and 3 mile races are
too long to watch.
In this country most of our best
running has been turned in from the
100 yard dash to the mile. We
have had few runners with the pati
ence to train for longer distances.
We have been better at the shorter
distances with Paddock, Wykoff, To
lan, Jesse Owens, and many others.
Here it was largely a matter of a
flash?or half a stride.
But the main or major goal in
track racing has been to reach the
mile in four minutes flat. Here is
something that demands both speed
and stamina to the ultimate limit.
The time may come when some one
will beat four minutes. But that is
the big target now.
Arne Andersson has brought the
mile to just a trifle more than a
second from the four minute mark.
Four minutes will be reached and
beaten, but hardly through the war
period. For with all the ability one
may have, there is still the matter of
condition and hard training through
a long period.
For example, Gunder Haegg is
still the greatest distance runner in
the world, over the one, two and
three-mile tests. His record is one
of the most amazing in all sport.
Yet, out of condition, his last show
ing at the mile and his best showing
at the mile, are close to 29 seconds
apart. We have always believed
there are no supermen in sport.
Records are only made to be
broken. What they all want is the
target. Sooner or later they bowl
this target over.
It has been said?"There is no
substitute for work." Also?"There
is no substitute for experience." Cer
tainly in a mile run there is no sub
stitute for a long, hard training pe
riod that brings the legs and the
wind working together as a team.
And that goes for a Mercury.
Tops in Training
While we're speaking of condi
tion, if anyone cares to know about
the all-tiine top in physical training,
it wouldn't be a bad idea to visit
the.four navy pre-Aight schools at
North Carolina, Georgia, St. Mary's
and Iowa. These four major pre
flight headquarters were first set up
by Com dr. Tom Hamilton, carried
on by Comdr. Frank Wickhorst and
are now under Comdr. "Killer"
Kane. In addition to the academic
and military side they have done an
incredible Job of conditioning,
Plain Draped Valance
With Sheer Curtains
C*VEN the plainest of straight net
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an air of elegance without being
too formal if you add a simple
draped valance. Such a valance
is also pretty with ruffled curtains,
and it may be made of figured
chintz as well as of plain material.
Festoon rings at the upper cor
ners of the window frame are all
that you need in the way of dra
pery fixtures. The diagrams show
how to cut and line the valance
which is pulled through these
rings. You can avoid piecings by
using 36-inch-wide material cut
lengthwise. A half width makes
the depth of the valance. The
length is the width of the window
plus the amount to hang down at
each side.
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SNAPPY FACTS I
ABOUT
RUBBER
There or* two big "unknowns" In
trying to anticipate ttio eventual
"balance of power" between natu
ral and synthetic rubber/m the opin
ion of John L Collyer, President of
The ft. F. Goodrich Co. These un
knowns ore respective production
costs and the relative value of these
types of rubber In different kinds
of products several years hence.
During the manufacture of
oee variety of synthetic rub
ber, millet iuIs must be kept
at a temperature of 100 da
Use of rayon has improved the
performance of synthetic truck tires ?
as much as 375 percent compared
with tires made of cotton cord, some
Industry authorities report
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