1958: This Week in Sports Vol. 9 #21

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I'm Marty Glickman with This Week in Sports.

You'll see the second fastest mile ever run.

Tim Tam takes the second of the big three and Stan the Man joins an exclusive club.

Old Pimlico race course in Baltimore jams in 37 ,000 for the 82nd running of the Preakness, second jewel in racing's Triple Crown.

It draws 12 horses, biggest field in 30 years.

Sentimental fans still hope Silky Sullivan number five will come through, but the experts pick Tim Tam number eight, the derby winner two weeks previously.

Now they're in the gate.

And there they go.

Racing past the stands on the course of a mile and three sixteenths, Lincoln Road number 10 cuts over from the outside to lead.

Talon Cho was in second place and right up with him is Jules Reward.

Silky Sullivan last.

Lincoln Road still shows the way on the back stretch.

Talon Cho second, but Tim Tam is moving up.

Coming around the turn into the stretch, Lincoln Road, who led almost all the way in the derby, is desperately trying to go all the way this time, but Tim Tam is rushing past him and the Calumet colt wins by two lengths.

Lincoln Road second, John Fischen third, and Silky Sullivan eighth.

Another great victory for Tim Tam worth nearly 100 ,000.

Another top -notch ride by Ismail Valenzuela.

Hands and wrists that have made baseball history and are still making it.

They belong to one of the game's all -time greats, Stanley Frank Musial of the St.

Louis Cardinals.

20 years ago, Musial was a left -handed pitcher.

Then he signed with the Cardinals and broke in as a young outfielder in 1941.

Here's a catch he made against the Yankees in his first World Series, 1942.

Musial's that kind of fielded too, but it's as a hitter he'll be remembered.

Stan has hit more all -star game home runs than any other player in either league.

He is the one that broke up the 1955 game in Milwaukee, winning for the National League in extra innings.

And then in Chicago, Musial drilled the shot to center field and goes loping easily into second base for a double.

With this hit, Stan comes within one of 3 ,000 big league blows, achieved by only seven men previously.

Next day, manager Fred Hutchinson holds Musial out of the game so he could save the 3 ,000 for the St.

But when things get tough, he needs a pinch hitter.

Who else but Stan Lamann.

Stan faces Mo Drabowski.

And there it goes, a booming drive into the left field corner.

Another double that starts the cards to victory, a hit that puts Musial in the most exclusive club in baseball.

Manager Hutchinson immediately goes out to second base to congratulate his star.

Photographers record the historic moment.

To the names of Cobb, Wagner, Collins, Lashaway, Wehner, Kapp -Ansen, and Stanley Frank Musial.

4 ,000 in Chicago's international amphitheater greet Russia's world championship weightlifting team, appearing in a match with the United States strongmen.

Vladimir Stugov starts the visitors off with a victory in the bantamweight class.

The Soviet musclemen are lustily cheered for their performances.

The Americans are unable to match their prodigious feats.

Only one victory interrupts the triumphant performance of the Russians.

Isaac Berger, a 21 -year -old naturalized American from Israel, scores it in the featherweight class.

In the course of his trials, Berger ties the world featherweight record for the military press, 259 pounds, and his total weight of 804 and three quarters for the three types of lifts surpasses the world mark.

Only member of the Russian squad not a world champion is Fedor Bogdanovsky, middleweight, and he defeats the American Tommy Kono, who is champion, with a world record total lift of 942 and a half pounds.

Then still more metal is added to the bar for the big men.

This is light heavyweight Tupum Lomakin.

For the Americans, Jim Bradford makes an Herculean effort in the heavyweight class.

But Alexei Medvedev, the world champion since America's Paul Anderson turned professional, is too powerful.

Medvedev raises a total of more than 1118 pounds to climax the Russian victory.

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.

Lady wrestlers have at each other in Boston.

In this corner in the white, June Byers of Texas, her opponent, Mae Young of Oklahoma.

They circle each other well.

And Mae decides to play rough.

June retaliates by playing a little footsie.

When Mae tries to get up on the world, she goes overboard.

But June doesn't like her to feel left out.

Mae evidently thinks she's about to burst into full bloom, but when Mae runs into June, it often gets her.

June making it very warm for Mae.

But at times it looks as if June is about to lose her head.

Now it's June's turn to go out for a while.

The Texas girl seems to think anyone from Oklahoma would appreciate the wide open spaces too.

And now they really go at it.

At this point, it looks as if June thinks this should be a tie.

And Mae is getting that let down feeling.

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.

The Los Angeles Coliseum, home of the Dodgers, draws another big crowd, over 40 ,000.

But this is for the relays.

The 120 -yard high hurdles final.

That's Elias Gilbert, Winston Salem, third from the far side.

While others take croppers over the timbers, Gilbert wins in 13 and 9 tenths seconds.

The winner, Elias Gilbert.

The 100 -yard dash, in the middle Bobby Morrow, Olympic sprint champion and Ray Norton, San Jose State.

Morrow gets a slight lead but Norton comes on and nips him by a whisker at the tape.

Nine and seven tenths.

An upset victory for Norton.

The event everybody is awaiting is the Miracle March.

At the crack of the gun, an unknown runner hustles into the lead.

Nobody knows who it is.

Herb Elliott of Australia takes second place.

He is one of three milers in the race who have broken four minutes.

The others are Merv Lincoln, also of Australia, and Laszlo Tabori of Hungary.

Everyone is still wondering who the unidentified pacemaker is, but he does the first quarter in 58 .5 with Elliott close behind.

Finally it comes out.

He's Drew Dunlap of Texas and Matt at Stoughton.

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.

Elliott and Lincoln still close to the pace.

Halfway through the third quarter, Elliott takes over the lead.

The 20 -year -old Australian hits the three -quarter mark in three -tenths of a second over three minutes.

And now he turns it on for the last lap.

They're running on turf and Herb is completely at home on it.

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? It's the fastest mile ever run in America.

Second fastest run anywhere in the world.

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.

But Elliott doesn't care.

He's sure he can run still faster.

Well, that's it for now.

We'll be back again next week.

Until then, this is Marty Glickman saying, so long.

Identifier

F.2012-03-0837

Date Of Production

1958

Abstract

Black and white sports newsreel from 1958 featuring Tim Tam winning the Preakness Stakes horse race. A look back at highlights from the career of Stanley Frank Musial as he reaches the 3,000 hit milestone at Wrigley Field. At Chicago’s International Amphitheatre, the USSR weightlifting team beats the USA team in all categories except the featherweight class, won by American Isaac Berger. June Byers beats Mae Young in women’s wrestling. At the LA Coliseum, Australian Herb Elliott runs the fastest mile ever run in America: 3:57.8

Run Time

0:12:30

Format

16mm

Extent

454 feet

Color

B&W

Sound

Optical

Reel/Tape Number

1/1

Has Been Digitized?

Yes

Language Of Materials

English

Element

Distribution Print

Genre

Sports
Magazine

Form

Newsreels

Subject

Baseball
Wrestling
Athletes
Soviet Union

Related Collections

SUBSERIES II: Sports

Related Places

North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago

North America ➜ United States ➜ Maryland ➜ Baltimore

Distributor

Telenews (Firm)

Participants And Performers

Glickman, Marty (is commentator)

Elliott, Herb (is participant)

Musial, Stan, (1920-2013) (is participant)

Berger, Isaac (is participant)

Byers, June (is participant)

Young, Mae (is participant)

Tim Tam (is participant)

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