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...annual running of the Bird Handicap Mile yesterday, Jay Hundley, discus thrower on the freshman track team, outlasted another Yardling, Phil Robertson, to take first place. Hundley, running with the maximum 440-yard handicap, became the first freshman to win the mile in its five-year history
...celebrate its admission to the Stadium, the ruggers have arranged for the track team to run the Bird Handicap Mile between halves. The race, which is open to all members of the track team, will be started by Olympic champion Tom Courtney...
Galloping about Manhattan on an early-morning constitutional, Visitor Harry S. Truman, 72, told trailing newshounds why he hopes daughter Margaret, expecting a child in July, will name no boys after him: "It would be a handicap all his life. I have a nephew named after me-a sergeant in World War II*-and this name almost deviled him to death. The worst thing in the world is to have a President in the family...
...Male Press Box. In her predominantly man's world, Bachelor-Girl McCluggage is finding that her sex can be both a handicap and an asset. At the Indianapolis 500 last spring she was barred from the all-male press box, had to interview drivers through a hole in the fence. "They hate me out there," she says frankly, "and I hate them." But she has less trouble than many of her male co-workers in knocking down the reserve of reticent athletes. A recent example: Toni Sailer, Austria's world champion skier. "All accounts...
...Brewster admitted that on occasion he had helped himself to union funds to pay for personal expenses, specifically for the transportation, and "possibly" for the lodging, of a jockey and a trainer employed by his stables (Brewster's colt, Alderman, won Hollywood Park's $50,000 Sunset Handicap in 1951). But, Brewster insisted, he intended all the while to pay the union back-still does. The trouble is that he does not really know how much he owes, since-Brewster said-a janitor had mistaken the Western Conference's pre-1954 records for trash (Brewster...