1956 Dave Sim sets a record and wins the hundred-yard dash at the annual Carolinas AAU track meet

05/21/56 Story No. NY-8 TELENEWS DAILY NEWS FILM Vol. 9, Issue No. 101 RELEASE: Immediate May 21, 1956-(Monday) Film Title: SPORTS WORLD Story: DUKE SOPHOMORE TIES WORLD RECORD IN 100-YARD DASH Footage: 32 Time: 54 sec. SC NO TL FT TL TM PIX NARRATION A. 2 3 (TITLE) 1. 6 10 LS CROWD Its the annual Carolinas AAU track meet at North Carolina State College -- and the big attraction is Americas hottest sprinter -- Duke sophomore Dave Sime. The big nineteen-year-old has already broken three worlds records this year -- setting new marks for the indoor hundred -- the two-twenty dash and the two-twenty low hurdles. 2. 13 22 SIME GETS READY 3. 15 25 CROWD Heres the start of the hundred-yard dash -- as the runners take off -- boosted by a three-mile-an-hour wind behind them. The record Sime is shooting for this time is the nine and three-tenths second mark set eight years ago by Mel Patton of California. 4. 17 28 STARTERS READY 5. 22 36 START & PASSING CAMERA 6. 26 42 FINISH & INTO CAMERA The finish -- and Sime ties the record! Experts say hes almost a sure bet to break that record sooner or later. And -- at the moment -- hes Americas brightest hopeful for the upcoming Olympics this summer in Australia. 7. 30 50 CROWD 8. 32 54 MS SIME & COACH

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