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...pole vault, a 64-ft. shot-put, a sub-4-min. mile. Last week, as the trackmen started moving from indoor boards to outdoor cinders, Negro Sprinter Francis Joseph Budd, 22, prepared an assault on the sturdiest barrier of all: 9 sec. for the 100-yd. dash...
...lowering the 9.3 mark set by Mel Patton in 1948. He is certain that he is just beginning to test his real speed. At the I.C.4-A. indoor meet in Manhattan recently, he clocked a record-tying 6 sec. flat for the difficult 60-yd. dash not once, but twice in the same day. Outdoors at the longer distance, with his flashing acceleration, there is no telling what...
Aggrey Awori challenged Frank Budd, world record holder in the 100-yd. dash in this years Knights of Columbus meet. Dave Abramson set two NCAA freshman records down at Yale (in the 220 and 440 freestyle). Billy Morris, freshman squash ace, was only defeated in his bid for his second consecutive National Junior Squash Tournament crown by varsity star Vic Neiderhoffer...
...hero and Jeannot burns bright and true, a forlorn adult parody of the boyish attachment between the two prep-school friends of A Separate Peace. Least convincing is the character of Jeannot, who is so nearly canine in his simplehearted loyalty that the reader expects him momentarily to dash into a burning building and carry out a trapped child with his teeth...
Jack Spitzberg (6 ft., 3 in. in the high jump, by three inches his best effort ), Jim Leath (6.4 in the dash), and the mile relay squad, paced by Dave 49.8 440, contributed valuable second places to the Crimson cause...