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These three and some other fresh faces exceeded all expectations at the Millrose Games in New York on Thursday and the BAA meet in Boston Saturday night, but a freak ankle injury to sprint star Aggrey Awori may make December's prediction pure fancy...
...injury to Awori, in the final heat of the BAA's 45-yard high hurdles, soured much of the jubilation produced by these stellar performances. Awori, who took first place in both the 60-yard dash and 60-yard hurdles in last year's Heptagonals, hit his ankle hard Saturday on the first hurdle, knocked down the next two, and finished last. He sat out the finals of the 50-yard dash, for which he had qualified by placing third in his semi-final heat...
...just a bruise, the Crimson should have more than enough for Yale and Princeton later this month, and should win the Heps. John Ogden demonstrated Saturday he can win in his own class, finishing first in 1:56.2 in the BAA's 880-yard run for New England collegians. Chris Ohiri took second place in the broad jump with a leap of 23 ft., 6 in. and sophomore Robert Yee captured fifth with 21 ft., 2 1/8 in. Captain Ed Meehan was timed in 2:12.5 in the 1000-yard run, only 1.4 off the winning pace...
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING, by Arnold Wesker, chides the British lower classes for being docile sheep that raise nary a baa of protest at their lot. The setting is an R.A.F. training camp, and the military gamesmanship is brisk and funny...
Aggrey Awori will run both the 50-yd. dash and the hurdles, the two events in which he made an outstanding showing in last year's BAA meet...