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...takes so little to set Sprinter Mel Patton's delicate nerves to jangling that he never reads the sport pages before a race. But he could not help knowing that the East had a challenger for his championship, a lanky Negro lad named Andy Stanfield, from Seton Hall College (N.J.). The night before the N.C.A.A. championships, Patton's wife artfully kept his mind off the race. He didn't begin to work himself into a state-in which his placid disposition turns sour and he fails to recognize his best friends-until just before...
...team after its meet today at Princeton, where it goes against a combined Princeton, Cornell squad. Varsity Coach Jaakko Mikkola predicts this will be a close meet, as will the one here next week. "The Englishmen are good," he pointed out yesterday. Jaakko singled out quarter miler Angus Scott, sprinter John Wilkinson, and miler Roger Bannister as particularly outstanding...
...Wilkinson ran the 100 meters in 10.5 at Paris in 1947," he reported, "and that was the fastest time made in the event by a European sprinter. If it had been 100 yards, his time would probably have been down around...
...Harvard's five entries (Yale has 19), a first place is fairly unlikely. Freshman Bill Geick (broad jump), Charlie Durakis (high hurdles), and Dick Weiskopf (100), and varsity sprinter Harvey Thayer (220) are all number three in their events on the form chart, and John Cogan, the Crimson's other varsity representative, is number four in the two mile...
...Sprinter John Wilkinson of Oxford will represent the English in both the 100 and the 220. If he had not injured himself in 1947, he would almost certainly have run in the Olympics. He can run the 100 meters in 10.5 and the 220 yards...