WEBVTT 1 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:18.440 Hello there. 2 00:00:18.560 --> 00:00:20.780 I'm Marty Glickman with This Week in Sports. 3 00:00:22.940 --> 00:00:25.620 You'll see the second fastest mile ever run. 4 00:00:27.620 --> 00:00:33.620 Tim Tam takes the second of the big three and Stan the Man joins an exclusive club. 5 00:00:43.760 --> 00:00:49.040 Old Pimlico race course in Baltimore jams in 37,000 for the 82nd running of the Preakness, 6 00:00:49.060 --> 00:00:54.840 second jewel in racing's Triple Crown. It draws 12 horses, biggest field in 30 years. 7 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:02.620 Sentimental fans still hope Silky Sullivan number five will come through, 8 00:01:02.700 --> 00:01:06.900 but the experts pick Tim Tam number eight, the derby winner two weeks previously. 9 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:17.360 Now they're in the gate. And there they go. 10 00:01:21.580 --> 00:01:26.160 Racing past the stands on the course of a mile and three sixteenths, Lincoln Road number 10 11 00:01:26.160 --> 00:01:30.980 cuts over from the outside to lead. Talon Cho was in second place and right up with him is 12 00:01:30.980 --> 00:01:45.700 Jules Reward. Silky Sullivan last. Lincoln Road still shows the way on the back stretch. Talon 13 00:01:45.700 --> 00:01:56.100 Cho second, but Tim Tam is moving up. Coming around the turn into the stretch, 14 00:01:56.300 --> 00:02:00.680 Lincoln Road, who led almost all the way in the derby, is desperately trying to go all the way 15 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:07.400 this time, but Tim Tam is rushing past him and the Calumet colt wins by two lengths. Lincoln Road 16 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:14.120 second, John Fischen third, and Silky Sullivan eighth. 17 00:02:16.720 --> 00:02:20.040 Another great victory for Tim Tam worth nearly 100,000. 18 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:22.840 Another top-notch ride by Ismail Valenzuela. 19 00:02:30.640 --> 00:02:34.600 Hands and wrists that have made baseball history and are still making it. 20 00:02:34.600 --> 00:02:39.680 They belong to one of the game's all-time greats, Stanley Frank Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals. 21 00:02:40.100 --> 00:02:45.040 20 years ago, Musial was a left-handed pitcher. Then he signed with the Cardinals and broke in 22 00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:50.340 as a young outfielder in 1941. Here's a catch he made against the Yankees in his first World Series, 23 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:58.980 1942. Musial's that kind of fielded too, but it's as a hitter he'll be remembered. 24 00:03:00.720 --> 00:03:05.900 Stan has hit more all-star game home runs than any other player in either league. He is the one that 25 00:03:05.900 --> 00:03:10.420 broke up the 1955 game in Milwaukee, winning for the National League in extra innings. 26 00:03:14.440 --> 00:03:20.820 And then in Chicago, Musial drilled the shot to center field and goes loping easily into 27 00:03:20.820 --> 00:03:27.020 second base for a double. With this hit, Stan comes within one of 3,000 big league blows, 28 00:03:27.020 --> 00:03:29.680 achieved by only seven men previously. 29 00:03:35.340 --> 00:03:40.400 Next day, manager Fred Hutchinson holds Musial out of the game so he could save the 3,000 for 30 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:46.060 the St. Louis fans. But when things get tough, he needs a pinch hitter. Who else but Stan Lamann. 31 00:03:52.140 --> 00:03:53.800 Stan faces Mo Drabowski. 32 00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:00.720 And there it goes, a booming drive into the left field corner. Another double that starts the cards 33 00:04:00.720 --> 00:04:05.760 to victory, a hit that puts Musial in the most exclusive club in baseball. Manager Hutchinson 34 00:04:05.760 --> 00:04:10.500 immediately goes out to second base to congratulate his star. Photographers record the historic 35 00:04:10.500 --> 00:04:17.100 moment. To the names of Cobb, Wagner, Collins, Lashaway, Wehner, Kapp-Ansen, and Stanley Frank 36 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:19.760 Musial. 37 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:28.960 4,000 in Chicago's international amphitheater greet Russia's world championship weightlifting 38 00:04:28.960 --> 00:04:34.060 team, appearing in a match with the United States strongmen. Vladimir Stugov starts the 39 00:04:34.060 --> 00:04:36.520 visitors off with a victory in the bantamweight class. 40 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:51.660 The Soviet musclemen are lustily cheered for their performances. The Americans are unable to match their prodigious feats. 41 00:05:06.880 --> 00:05:10.360 Only one victory interrupts the triumphant performance of the Russians. 42 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:16.180 Isaac Berger, a 21-year-old naturalized American from Israel, scores it in the featherweight class. 43 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:28.220 In the course of his trials, Berger ties the world featherweight record for the military press, 44 00:05:29.080 --> 00:05:34.460 259 pounds, and his total weight of 804 and three quarters for the three types of lifts 45 00:05:34.460 --> 00:05:36.280 surpasses the world mark. 46 00:05:43.220 --> 00:05:48.140 Only member of the Russian squad not a world champion is Fedor Bogdanovsky, middleweight, 47 00:05:48.400 --> 00:05:54.380 and he defeats the American Tommy Kono, who is champion, with a world record total lift of 942 48 00:05:54.380 --> 00:06:00.700 and a half pounds. Then still more metal is added to the bar for the big men. This is light heavyweight 49 00:06:00.700 --> 00:06:02.220 Tupum Lomakin. 50 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:15.680 For the Americans, Jim Bradford makes an Herculean effort in the heavyweight class. 51 00:06:19.880 --> 00:06:24.080 But Alexei Medvedev, the world champion since America's Paul Anderson turned professional, 52 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:30.680 is too powerful. Medvedev raises a total of more than 1118 pounds to climax the Russian victory. 53 00:06:40.080 --> 00:06:48.080 The crowd generously applauds the show of power by the Soviets, who report they are delighted and impressed by their reception in the United States. 54 00:06:58.260 --> 00:07:04.180 Lady wrestlers have at each other in Boston. In this corner in the white, June Byers of Texas, 55 00:07:04.520 --> 00:07:07.000 her opponent, Mae Young of Oklahoma. 56 00:07:10.220 --> 00:07:11.620 They circle each other well. 57 00:07:14.980 --> 00:07:15.960 Come to grips. 58 00:07:21.880 --> 00:07:28.320 And Mae decides to play rough. June retaliates by playing a little footsie. 59 00:07:34.960 --> 00:07:37.900 When Mae tries to get up on the world, she goes overboard. 60 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:47.580 But June doesn't like her to feel left out. 61 00:07:51.940 --> 00:07:57.760 Mae evidently thinks she's about to burst into full bloom, but when Mae runs into June, it often gets her. 62 00:07:59.740 --> 00:08:02.100 June making it very warm for Mae. 63 00:08:10.840 --> 00:08:14.360 But at times it looks as if June is about to lose her head. 64 00:08:25.880 --> 00:08:28.560 Now it's June's turn to go out for a while. 65 00:08:33.820 --> 00:08:39.140 The Texas girl seems to think anyone from Oklahoma would appreciate the wide open spaces too. 66 00:08:39.520 --> 00:08:43.280 And now they really go at it. 67 00:08:51.500 --> 00:08:55.420 At this point, it looks as if June thinks this should be a tie. 68 00:08:55.420 --> 00:08:58.280 And Mae is getting that let down feeling. 69 00:09:11.400 --> 00:09:18.560 When Mae looks for trouble, she finds plenty of it. With a flying tackle and a body press, June scores the fall that wins the match. 70 00:09:27.300 --> 00:09:34.300 The Los Angeles Coliseum, home of the Dodgers, draws another big crowd, over 40,000. But this is for the relays. 71 00:09:36.520 --> 00:09:41.940 The 120-yard high hurdles final. That's Elias Gilbert, Winston Salem, third from the far side. 72 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:51.460 While others take croppers over the timbers, Gilbert wins in 13 and 9 tenths seconds. 73 00:09:55.420 --> 00:09:56.980 The winner, Elias Gilbert. 74 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:04.800 The 100-yard dash, in the middle Bobby Morrow, Olympic sprint champion and Ray Norton, San Jose State. 75 00:10:05.180 --> 00:10:09.520 Morrow gets a slight lead but Norton comes on and nips him by a whisker at the tape. 76 00:10:09.880 --> 00:10:11.520 Nine and seven tenths. 77 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:15.680 An upset victory for Norton. 78 00:10:19.260 --> 00:10:22.040 The event everybody is awaiting is the Miracle March. 79 00:10:22.760 --> 00:10:27.420 At the crack of the gun, an unknown runner hustles into the lead. Nobody knows who it is. 80 00:10:27.740 --> 00:10:33.100 Herb Elliott of Australia takes second place. He is one of three milers in the race who have broken four minutes. 81 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:37.660 The others are Merv Lincoln, also of Australia, and Laszlo Tabori of Hungary. 82 00:10:40.740 --> 00:10:47.740 Everyone is still wondering who the unidentified pacemaker is, but he does the first quarter in 58.5 with Elliott close behind. 83 00:10:47.740 --> 00:10:52.740 Finally it comes out. He's Drew Dunlap of Texas and Matt at Stoughton. 84 00:10:58.620 --> 00:11:06.420 At the halfway mark, after covering the first half mile in two minutes and half a second, Dunlap drops out and Burr Grimm of Maryland goes to the front. 85 00:11:06.880 --> 00:11:09.040 Elliott and Lincoln still close to the pace. 86 00:11:16.560 --> 00:11:19.560 Halfway through the third quarter, Elliott takes over the lead. 87 00:11:25.740 --> 00:11:30.320 The 20-year-old Australian hits the three-quarter mark in three-tenths of a second over three minutes. 88 00:11:30.580 --> 00:11:36.260 And now he turns it on for the last lap. They're running on turf and Herb is completely at home on it. 89 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:52.620 Coming into the home stretch, Elliott is nearly 20 yards ahead of Lincoln and the only question now is the time. Will it be a record? 90 00:11:53.020 --> 00:11:57.700 It's the fastest mile ever run in America. Second fastest run anywhere in the world. 91 00:11:57.940 --> 00:12:05.840 Three minutes, 57 and eight tenths seconds. A thrilling performance, but the chances of it will be recognized are slim because of Dunlap's pace setting. 92 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:09.820 But Elliott doesn't care. He's sure he can run still faster. 93 00:12:14.340 --> 00:12:19.580 Well, that's it for now. We'll be back again next week. Until then, this is Marty Glickman saying, so long.