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This week Hialeah's landscape will be a backdrop for another drama: the second of the meeting's two biggest races: $100,000 Flamingo Stakes. The top stars: William Woodward's noble bay colt, Nashua, and Boston Doge, a dark bay sprinter owned by Paul Andolino, a Boston livery-stable operator...
...Naval Academy brings with it six strong swimmers. Hawaiian Chuck Gray, its free-styling sprinter, covers the 100 in 52.5 and the 220 in 2:12.5. Jack Edwards and Chouteau Dyer haven't swum the former event as fast yet this season for the Crimson, while Jim Jorgensen and Captain Ted Whatley, who both went the longer distance in only slightly better time against Cornell; will again be pushed to peak performance...
...that had escaped from a pen. No matador, Café Filho, with aides puffing along in his wake, was the first to make it to the safety of a nearby hut. The runner-up was his military adviser, General Juarez Távora. After the snorting bull was lassoed, Sprinter Café Filho. still gasping for breath, grinned: "I defended myself heroically, but I ran like a damned...
Cohen turned in an excellent performance in the 40 yard dash. B.U., paced by Bill Shearer, last year's New England dash champion, was given an excellent chance to sweep this event. When Norm Bruck, Harvard's best sprinter, slipped at the starting block a B.U. sweep seemed inevitable, but Cohen took second place to save the meet, according to McCurdy, "the turning point of the meet...
Turning in its best time of the season, the mile relay of Alpers, Little, Alan Howe and sprinter Pete Dow won its heat, but finished second on a time basis to Cornell. Cornell had a 3:16.8, and the Crimson...