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...European View. The main-event race was a 100-miler for big cars like the one that had killed Bob Wilder the day before. On the eighth lap, with last year's winner, Driver Bill Spear, leading in his Ferrari-Mexico, the spectators got another jolt. Some 55 seconds behind Spear, in fourth place, was Harry Grey, 37, one-time British professional driver and now a Long Island sales manager for European cars. Pushing his Jaguar at an 80-m.p.h. clip, Grey went into a spin, flipped over a time and a half, skidded to an upside-down stop...
...London, at the British Amateur Athletic Association track meet, Oxford's Roger Bannister, now a medical student and somewhat out of training, turned in an amazing performance: a 4:03.6 mile, which made him the fifth-fastest miler in history. (The record: 4:01.4 by Sweden's Gundar Hagg...
...remaining running events come in the questionable group. Don French is a half-miler capable of bettering two minutes some time this season, but as yet he hasn't hit his peak. The two-mile could be strong if Jerry Whatmough, a professor's son, and Jim Gerry, brother of the varsity's star Hal, live up to their potential. So far, neither has shown up well outdoors...
...Manhattan, Villanova's unbeaten miler, Fred Dwyer, set a new I.C.4-A record of 4:08.1, the fastest indoor mile of the season...
Captain Al Wills, who also led the Yardlings in cross-country last fall, is a firstrate miler and a standout in all the distances. Wilson complains that he hasn't been getting enough competition in his special event: "If they'd start pushing him in that mile, Wills would turn in some really terrific times. Now, it's too easy...