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...weekday afternoon recently, Vanderbilt and Winfrey sent the Dancer out for his 1954 debut?a six-furlong sprint...
...handily, beating Yale by half a length, Penn by two, with Harvard, Wisconsin and Cornell trailing. Coach Callow, 63, was elated but still claimed to be worrying about his alma mater, Washington, which last week whipped its top West Coast rival, California, by six lengths. Navy, now the Eastern sprint champions for the third straight year, faces two more tough tests: the Western championship (without Washington) at the end of this month, the Intercollegiate Regatta (with Washington) in June...
...Holder Fortune Gordien with a toss of 184 ft. 1½ in. Only two men have tossed the discus farther: Gordien and Olympic Record Holder Sim Iness. ¶At Indianapolis, qualifying for the Memorial Day 500-miler, Jack McGrath set a new record for the four-lap (ten miles) sprint of 141.033 m.p.h. Old (1952) record: 139.034 m.p.h., set by the late Chet Miller. ¶ In Moscow, World Champion Chess Player Mikhail Botvinnik, 43, retained his title after a long (24 games) match with Challenger Vassily Smyslov...
Captain Leverett Saltonstall, now Republican Senator from Massachusetts, will lead the 1914 oarsmen in a short sprint on the river...
...mile marker the Badgers took a "power ten" which jockeyed them to within half a length of the Crimson bow, but they were unable to stay up and slipped back to nearly a full length behind until the sprint...