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...first "jam" of the first six-day bicycle race in six years was under way. The crowd came alive as relief riders piled onto the track to take over from tiring teammates. The race itself became a wheeled madhouse as the hard-pumping Aussies tried to steal a lap on two-man teams representing the U.S. and eight other countries...
...racing that they could not tell the leaders from the losers. The best they could do as they tried to untangle the action was wait for the tangible excitement of big spills-and there were plenty. At week's end seven teams were within a lap of the lead, but the fans seemed to care more for spectacle than speed...
Earlier in the evening, Wharton had won the Eddie Farrell 500-yard run, beating Basil Ince of Tufts and Mac Hassler of Williams. After spurting into the lead after the first lap and a half, Wharton literally coasted in to win by 10 yards in the slow, for him, time of 59.1 seconds...
...freshman mile relay team picked up the other Crimson victory of the evening as it ran the Providence and Brown freshmen into the ground. Pat Liles, although boxed in badly at the start, passed the other two men during the third lap and haded off to second man Bob Hoyt 10 yards ahead of Providence. Hoyt opened this lead up until he had nearly a half lap on Providence, Art Cahn held this lead, and anchorman Ed Martin increased it to nearly three-quarters of a lap at the wire...
...mile relay, the Crimson was unable to offset a disastrously slow first leg by Bob Weil, who passed off to Bill Thompson nearly a half lap behind first-running Yale. Thompson made up a little of this deficit, but neither Dave Spinney nor Dave McLean could close...