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...precious fractions of a second that he was unable to make up. The new "Top Eliminator": California's Jim Nelson, 34, a mechanic who has been racing dragsters since 1948, has never before won a major competition. Nelson's winning time for the quarter-mile sprint was 8.7 sec., and his gold-and-red, Dodge-powered Dragmaster Dart was clocked through the trap at a whistling 170 m.p.h...
After Eddie Meehan had finished fourth in the mile, Crimson coach Bill McCurdy decided he needed him in the two-mile, since every point counted. responded with a 9:39.9, and took third when his last-lap sprint nipped Somers of Princeton. Even after running three miles, though, he was not . Fighting off sickness, he covered his leg in the two-mile relay...
...fine time that could have been even faster if he had cut a few seconds off his 66.5 third quarter. Meehan and Hamlin ran second and fourth, on either side of Holy Cross co-captain Bud Barker, until the final 160 yards, when Hamlin unfurled a closing sprint that carried him into second, just ahead of Meehan...
...Hennessey of Holy Cross is a threat to the varsity's control of the field events. With Beckwith and Spitsberg below par, he could take the high jump, and he figures strongly in the broad jump as well. He can also sprint, as anyone who saw the 1960 Holy Cross football game will tell...
Lingle passed Mullin with three laps to go, withstood a brief sprint by his challenger, and finished in 4:12.6, a Cage and meet record. Mullin, holder of the old record, finished in 4:13.7, which also bettered the old mark...