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Sophomore John Bakkensen set a new University record in the discuses Harvard trackmen turned in a number of sparkling individual performances in the first day of the Penn Relays in Philadelphia yesterday. Bakkensen won the discus with a throw of 169 ft., 9 in., which eclipsed the old University mark by five inches...
...Crimson managed some respectable performances. John Bakkensen twirled the discus 164 ft. 9 1/2 in. to lead a Harvard sweep of that event, and Art Doten took the hammer throw with a toss...
Army's Jim Sarn is a standout in both the shot and the discus, and Harvard entries will have to go all out to beat him. Art Croasdale in the shot and John Bakkinsen in the idiscus appear to have their events safe for the Cadets. Clark Ballard in the hammer throw and John Ahearn in the javelin are favored over strong Crimson opponents...
...coach would dare hope for the strength Harvard has in the javelin. Hobie Armstrong, Hank Hatch, Tom Holcombe, and Peter Lamp all consistently fling the spear over 200 ft., with sophomore Lamp holding the University record of 212 ft., 6 in. The Crimson is not as strong in the discus, but McCurdy can count on quite a few points from John Bakkensen who set a freshman record in that event last year. Hobie Armstrong will give opponents trouble in the hop, step and jump. Only a late-season injury prevented him from breaking the 50 ft. mark last year...
...though their adult leaders seldom kept up. College fraternities took to it with the same gusto with which they once stuffed telephone booths. In California 400 Marin County high school students set out, and 97 finished-including 16-year-old Diana Congdon, who covets a place among lady discus throwers in the 1964 Olympics and who walked the 50 miles in 13 hr. 29 min., toting an 8-lb. knapsack filled with a diminishing supply of candy, oranges and fresh clothes. In Burlington, N.C., a 58-year-old postman (who rides a motor scooter on his route) walked...