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...Thorndike and Bob Forsyth can shut out Scot Johnson for second and third in the hammer. If Lockett, Lawrence, and Torrey can outvault the equally-good trio of Eustis, Bensley, and Larsen. If high-jumpers Gene Harrigan and Mary Jenkins can stay up there with Jim Keyes. If Sam Felton can split Frank and Bowers in the discus. If Thayer, Kumple, and Carter can beat Yale's brilliant but erratic broad-jumper Nathan Bundy (he hit 23 feet, 6 inches last week against Princeton). If sore-armed Don Trimble can take at least one javelin throw to prevent the Elis...
...Ecuador, outraged residents of Quito awoke one morning last week to discover on their walls: "Death to Yankee imperialism-Viva Russia-Yesterday Bogotá, tomorrow Quito!" Beneath was scrawled the hammer & sickle. Ecuador's 2,500 Communists denied responsibility, but the government, deep in a political campaign and fearful that inflammatory Colombia might set off sparks in neighboring Ecuador, closed the northern boundary and set up special police patrols in some cities. Would there be a.revolution? "Of course," was the cynical answer of President Carlos Julio Arosema, "there has to be one. There are three candidates for President...
That isn't all. Pudgy hammer-thrower Jim Burnham has broken the Dartmouth record in his event this spring and last week he won the Penn Relays hammer throw at about 171 feet. He may scare Sam Felton into hitting 180 feet today. Felton broke the Harvard record two weeks ago with a shot of 175 feet, 2 inches. This competition, plus the Kimball versus Pat McCormick duel in the 120 high and 220 low hurdles should provide the most spectator interest this afternoon...
Core of the Freshmen's power events against Exeter: In the mile, White (4:47.8), Rosen, Pankey; in the 440, Walsh (54.6), Welch; in the hammer, Kaplan (157 ft., 5 in.), Murphy, Stromsted; in the discus, Kaplan (121 ft., 8 in.), Howard, Keith; in the javelin, Keith (151 ft., 2 in.), Howard; in the shot, Keith (47 ft., 6 1/2 in.), Howard...
...Hammer--Won by Felton (H); 2, Thorndike (H); 3, Ward (H); 4, Gallogly (HC). Distance: 172 feet, 3 inches...