Word: racing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Running. In London, Accountant Francis George Swain, 46, got a two-year prison stretch for embezzling about $8,400 in animal-welfare funds from the Blue Cross-Our Dumb Friends League, got no leniency for having shot the wad betting on such dumb friends as greyhounds and race horses...
Thoroughbred Race of the Week (CBS, 4-4:30 p.m.). The Garden State, world's richest (about $300,000) race...
Princeton's surprising sophomore, Mike Kingston, upset all predictions by winning the race and setting a new record of 24:45.7 for the five-mile course. But the closest Tiger finisher behind Kingston was his older brother, Pete, in seventh place, and the Princeton squad never threatened Yale...
Massachusetts Hall took first place in yesterday's freshman intramural cross country meet with 45 points as Fred Churchill of Massachusetts won the race in 9:03.2. Pete Bryant of Matthews North came in second, followed by Al Maher of Matthews South...
...received informal ribbing about his precarious position. His strong Portuguese vote may be pre-empted this year by CCA-endorsed Manuel Rogers, although if Rogers is eliminated early from the count, his second place votes would presumably go to Velucci. Two minor Italian candidates have reportedly joined the race simply to take first-place votes from Velucci and DeGuglielmo; how much this may hinder Velucci is difficult to judge...