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Kevin McCafferty and Steve Niemi pulled off respective victories in the shot put and hammer throws while Dan Jiggets logged his best distance in taking third place in both the hammer and the discus...
Divorced. Harold Connolly, 42, and Olga Fikotova Connolly, 41, both teachers and veteran Olympic athletes; after 17 years of marriage, four children; in Santa Monica, Calif. The Connollys met as gold medalists (he as a U.S. ham-merthrower, she as a Czechoslovak discus thrower) at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and provided the cold war love story of the year when they married and settled in the U.S. despite the protests of Czechoslovak authorities...
Vanderpool-Wallace spearheaded a clean sweep in the field events for Harvard-Yale. In other field events, Adrian Tew easily won the javelin with a 215 ft. 5 in. heave, Dick Gilbane took the discus at 149 ft. 6 in., Mel Embree went 6 ft. 8 1/2 in. in the high jump to win and Jay Hughes won the shot...
...mile and discus should be closer than I had anticipated," he said. "Yale's kids beat our men in those events last weekend at the Heptagonals...
Other closely contested events will be the high hurdles, discus, two-mile and the mile relay, McCurdy said...