Sport: Afraid of the Big Bad Bear?

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With American trackmen improving every week, the notion that the regimentalized Russians will skunk the Americans in Melbourne seems as obsolete as the 4½-minute mile. J. Lyman Bingham, executive director of the U.S. Olympic Association, glanced over the results of the week's two meets, then happily made a flat prediction: "We'll have the best team we've ever had."