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Sport: Appetizer

Hungry for the opening of the indoor track season, 16,000 fans crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden for last week's Millrose Games. They hoped for a 16-ft. pole vault, a 4:06 mile, an 8:50 two miles. They didn't get them; but they were satisfied with what they got:

> Most spectacular athlete in the U.S. is nonchalant, 27-year-old Cornelius ("Dutch") Warmerdam, a Piedmont, Calif, schoolteacher with a catlike spring in his legs. The world's only 15-ft. pole vaulter, Warmerdam has soared to that height or more 27 times in the past three years, has...

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