This Day in Track & Field, August 12, Mel Walker sets HJ WR at Malmo, Sweden (1937), John Walker runs 3:49.4 for mile, first to break 3:50! (1975), written by Walt Murphy
Walt Murphy’s News and Results Service (wmurphy25@aol.com) This Day in Track & Field–August 12 1937—Mel Walker had jumped 6-9 7/8 (ratified as 2.08 [6-9 ¾]) in Stockholm four days earlier to set an American Record, but the IAAF didn’t accept the mark as a World Record, since the bar fell off, even though it was […]