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Kirkland extended its House basketball lead last night by walloping Winthrop, 48 to 24, at the I.A.B. In other A games, Dudley belted Leverett, 32 to 26, and Adams nosed out Eliot, 38 to 34. Kirkland now owns a four-win no-loss mark with runnerup Dunster holding a 2-1 record. Kirkland's B team thumped Winthrop, 35 to 21; Eliot won by forfeit from Adams' B's; and Leverett bounced the Dudley B quintet...
John Leroy, a sophomore who ran from the fullback slot last season will start at inside guard, with George Dyer, a junior who didn't see much action in '51, at the other offensive guard post. Dyer, fast and strong, was runnerup in the New England 167 wrestling championships last year. On defense, 5 foot 10 inch Ken Hall will be at left guard. Hall is termed by his teammates "hard to move." At the other guard, and ready to drop back as line backer when Springfield shifts from its usual 6-2-2-1 alignment...
...Manhattan College's track & field team, the I.C. 4-A meet; in Manhattan. Competing against 53 colleges, Manhattan's speedsters ran away from the field wich 42 points to 19 2/5 for runnerup Army...
...Italian Ferraris, came in first and second. Leading the pack was Italy's white-haired Piero Taruffi, who finished fourth last year. Taruffi's Ferrari covered the 1,933 miles at an average speed of 88.2 m.p.h., 9.8 m.p.h. faster than McGriff's 1950 mark. Runnerup was Alberto Ascari, Italy's champion racer. Seven minutes and 50 seconds behind Ascari, according to the official clocking, was William Sterling of El Paso, in a Chrysler. The top Mexican came in ninth...
...Promises. Of the three, stiff-backed General Gomes could count on the most solid, unsplit block of votes, the same 2,000,000 he won as Dutra's runnerup in 1945. But many Brazilians wrote him off as a crusty aristocrat, and the Brigadeiro characteristically refused to cut loose with the slashing spiels that might win him wider backing. "I have built my house," he snapped. "Now I can't add any more floors to it." Dutra's Candidate Machado was even less disposed to lash out from the stump. But the mild little man from Minas...