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Joel Landau, favored by the New York Times to win both hurdles in the IC4A competition at Villanova, had little trouble qualifying for the 120-yard high hurdles finals yesterday...
...Penn Relays began a triumphant finale to the intercollegiate foot-racing career of Villanova's light-foot Irish senior Ron Delany. With Ron running in the sprint medley, the distance medley and the one-mile relay, Villanova set meet records in all three, became first team ever to win three relay titles three years in a row, first ever to win the mile four years in a row. The Delany himself set a four-year record for collecting relay hardware: ten first-place gold watches. ¶ After watching some older kids try out for the New York City Parks...
...that Pacesetter Phil Coleman had finished the first three-quarters of the Bankers' Mile at the Chicago Relays in a fast 3:05. "I was only a stride behind," said Ron, and I could feel the energy flowing. I decided this was it." So the 22-year-old Villanova senior ran all out for the one thing that has been missing from his swift career on the track: a world record. He broke the tape in 4:03.4, two-tenths of a second faster than any man had ever run an indoor mile before. ¶ Overflowing with swimming talent...
...From the moment he entered Madison Square Garden for the I.C. 4-A. championships, Villanova's great miler. Ron Delany, 22, never seemed to stop running, though he never got around to running the mile. He had to run a qualifying heat for the 1,000-yd. title, then in the race itself made a gut-wrenching rush in the last two laps to win. Less than an hour later, he jogged out for the grueling two-mile grind, found the wind for one more of his famous finishing kicks and won by 6 yds. Still scorning records...
...racing against Rozsy worried Ron, the pale, frail-looking Irishman in Villanova's colors gave no sign last week when he glided easily into the early laps of the National Amateur Athletic Union mile. He picked a place in the clear, just off the pace, and let Chicago's Phil Coleman tow the field along. His slow (2:05.2) half bothered him not a bit. Farther back, Rozsy began to show concern. He wasted energy jockeying for the lead...