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...mile run at the Compton, Calif., Relays. Burleson was clocked in 3 min. 57.4 sec., and the next seven finishers all cracked 4 min. too. Wichita's Jim Ryun, 17, came in eighth at 3 min. 59 sec.-fastest time ever recorded by a high school miler...
Wildcat captain Vic Zwolak took over in the three-mile run winning in a meet record , with the Crimson's Walt Hewlett finishing well out of the money. Half miler Noel Carrell joined the point parade with a second place in the 880. Tom Farrell of St. John's got the win with a 1:49.5 clocking...
Hurdlers Tony Lynch and Jack Spitzberg, sprinter Aggrey Awori, and miler and captain Ed Meehan also look like good bets to score, but even points from these shouldn't be enough to overtake the Villanovans...
After all, the eli track team boasts Wendell Mottley, a quarter-miler from Trinidad who sets more world records than anyone can keep count of (he set one this winter running in sneakers on a gym floor at Cornell). Mottley is guaranteed to make a shambles of the quarter mile this afternoon, and the Yale team he anchors is a cinch in the mile relay...
...Meehan has never set a world record while running in his sneakers, but he is a strong, courageous, exciting runner who should win the 880 and the mile. Yale has no sprinter who can stay with Aggrey Awori, no hurdler in a class with Tony Lynch, no two-miler who can challenge Walt Hewlett on a good (though the Elis' Ross o Dell has caught Hewlett on bad days before). If Yale's pole vaulters and javelin men are fairly sure winners there is no Bulldog who can leap with Chris Ohiri, a consistent 23-footer in the broad jump...