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...another Crimson highlight of the meet, the varsity mile relay team ran away from both Yale and Princeton to win by a quarter lap in the excellent time of 3:22.4. Al Wills, a converted miler, ran a fast third leg which opened up a big lead for anchorman Dick Wharton. Mike Robertson led off, and he was followed by French Anderson...
...mile relay, McCurdy feels that the odds are so strongly against the varsity, that he is considering seratching his entry. The varsity is in the same heat as Mauhattan and Pittsburgh, which is anchored by Arnie Sowell, the best half-miler in the country. If he does decide to enter his team, it will be composed of Jim Cairns, Phil Williams, and two others from among Otis Gates, Ken Wilson, Wharton, and Wills...
...delights of the coaching staff are the distances, from the 600 to the 2-mile. In the former is Dick Wharton, tabbed as potentially one of the East's top runners. Yet Al Wills, a top miler, beat him by two-tenths of a second Saturday in the outstanding performance of the meet...
...Suspended from amateur competition for accepting expense money in excess of A.A.U.-approved limits. America's best miler, Wes Santee, copped a plea by admitting his guilt and arguing that dozens of other track stars do the same thing. The Missouri Valley Association of the A.A.U. revoked the suspension, and the National A.A.U. opened its annual convention by solemnly searching for means of cracking down on promoters whose pay-offs corrupt otherwise pure amateurs...
...London Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre, "lack much of their old self-confidence. The recent advent of a young Queen, the talk of a new Elizabethan era, the dynamic character of a new self-confident Toryism, the conquest of Everest by Edmund Hillary and of time by Four-Minute Miler Roger Bannister, are all factors which in the last few years have combined to bolster that waning confidence. Princess Margaret will start no revolution whatever she may do, but things are now so far advanced that if, in the end, she gives up Townsend, the outcome will be highly unpopular with...