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...that Dixon, one of the nation's top quarter milers and sprinters, might never run again because of a leg injury. Dixon has improved though, but only to the extent that he can run on the mile relay. Pratt, a husky 6-foot-three hurdler, and defending broad jump champ, has been out with a pulled muscle, although there is hope that he may compete tomorrow. If he does, he should take the hurdles, and place in the jump...
B.A.A. officials are currently dickering to add an extra four odd minutes--the shorter the better--to Heptagonal championships, which will be held at the Stadium this spring; the added event would be an invitational mile. Graduate student Josy Barthel, the Luxemburg Olympic champ and winner in the recent K. of C. and B.A.A. meets, would be a certain entrant, and invitations would also go out to milers like Wes Santoo of the University of Kansas, Fred Wilt, and Lon Truex...
Suddenly both were thrown from their bikes by an explosion in the ditch alongside the road. At the same moment, a Tommy gun chattered from a nearby hut. As the Vietnamese soldiers returned the fire, most of the cyclists, including Champ Soun, dived for the ditches, but Policeman Liem jumped back on his bike and pedaled hell-for-leather toward the finish. The only man to finish the lap, and thus win a prize of 15,000 piasters ($428), he got down from his bike and fainted dead away. "I'm no hero," he told the cheering Vietnamese fans...
...Champ Stoughton Loses...
Sophomore Phil Burnaman at 137, up against the New Jersey schoolboy champ Ed Pitts, took advantage of his breaks and took the decision after three close periods...