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McCurdy also dismissed sprinter Aggrey Awori and Chris Ohiri for most of the evening. Awori would have been good for firsts in both the 40-yard dash and the 40-yard high hurdles, while Ohiri could have added points in the broad jump and dash. The Crimson needed neither of them, picking up 17 of a possible 27 points in the three events...
...program called it the $125,000 Washington, D.C. International, and 13 thoroughbreds from nine nations pranced to the post at Maryland's Laurel Race Course. But to the fans, it was strictly a domestic affair, a test between the three top U.S. horses: Jack Dreyfus' sprinter, Beau Purple; Mrs. Richard C. duPont's great gelding. Kelso; and Jack Price's millionaire colt, Carry Back. Ill-mannered catcalls greeted the Russian and Japanese entries, and Britain's Pardao went off at 108-to-1 odds...
...Beau Purple, Jack Dreyfus' temperamental, long-striding sprinter, who insists on taking the lead at the start of a race: the $114,800 Man O' War Stakes on the turf at New York's Belmont Park-a contest that was billed as a match race between Carry Back, winner of more than $1,000,000 in three years, and Kelso, the Horse of the Year in 1960 and 1961. Almost unnoticed by betters, who let him go off at 20-1, Beau Purple fought off Kelso's challenge to win by two lengths. Carry Back finished...
...picking up the white telephone in his Tampa headquarters and ordering surprise alerts at all hours of the day and night, Adams has turned STRIKE into a fighting unit braced for a sprinter's start. "In one night, we can pick up a force of three or four fighter squadrons, six to eight reconnaissance planes, and an Army-reinforced battle group and have them on their way," says Adams. "If we really wanted to break our necks, the first troops could be in the air within two hours from a cold start...
Dartmouth's Gerry Ashworth would be the finest sprinter in the East were it not for the presence of Villianova's Frank Budd. Ashworth has run the 100 this year in 9.7, and he should easily win both sprints tomorrow...