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...record of 49.8 in the Ryder race. His finishing sprint put him well ahead of Tufts' Steve Wilkie, who had peaten Arnold Howe in last year's Knights of Columbus Meet, Little in this year's K of C, and who had never lost to a Crimson quarter-miler...
Dave Alpers, Renny Little, Bob Rittenburg, and Dick Wharton will face a tough Princeton entry and an unknown Yale quartet. Heptagonal quarter-miler Joe Meyers could cause an upset if he gets close to anchor man Wharton...
...learn anything about life from sport? One notable answer comes from famed Miler Roger Bannister, first to run a faster-than-four-minute mile (3:59.4) and now house physician at London's St. Mary's Hospital. Writes Dr. Bannister, 25, in the BBC magazine, The Listener: "My running may have given me a limited pedestrian philosophy, but it has taught me one thing: the need to make decisions. Sooner or later in sport we run up against situations which are too big for us to manage. In real life we can dodge them. We can play hide...
...urbane ambassador to the U.S., Sir Roger Makins, 50, joined the Aga Khan in the same order. Australia's holder of the world record for the mile run (3 min. 58 sec.), lanky John Landy, 24, was given the Order of the British Empire. Britain's great miler, Dr. Roger Bannister, had been ignored, but more because the list was so dull, London's press exploded in columns of indignation. The editorial consensus: the list had deteriorated into "a haven for aging admirals and bureaucrats...
...Whitfield, 30, the world's best half-miler, won the James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the U.S. amateur athlete "who, by performance, example and good influence, did the most to advance the cause of good sportsmanship during the year." "Marvelous Mai," the first Negro winner of the Sullivan Trophy since it was established in 1930, actually had his best year in 1953, but his amateur standing was under scrutiny then (he has since been fully cleared...