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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...
Harvard-Yale also looks solid in the javelin and high jump. Adrian Tew, who set a new Harvard record with a throw of 226 ft. 7 in. seems to have too much for Cambridge's Colin Shaw, whose 197 ft. 6 in. best is considerably below Tew's mark. In the high jump Harvard's Mel Embree has cleared 6 ft. 8 in. and teammate Bill Bihrle has gone 6 ft. 6 in., both far above Oxford's Richard Gyles's 6 ft. 2 in. best...
Other injured Harvard performers are long-jumper Vincent Vanderpoole-Wallce, hurdler Dewey Hickman and javelin thrower Bill Pade...
...Javelin throwers, football and baseball players and even violinists often suffer identical symptoms. But it is because of the mushrooming popularity of tennis that doctors' waiting rooms are filling with victims of the condition; about half a million new players have taken up the game in the U.S. each year for the past three...
...Kleiger, the thinclads' top polevaulter, cleared 16 ft. to win the event, while Harvard's Blayne Heckel achieved a close second. Mel Embree triumphed for third in the high jump while Adrian Tew's javelin throw also brought the team a third place...