¶ Although only Team Captain Charley Pratt won an individual event (60-yd. high hurdles), Manhattan College's trackmen ran off with enough third places to take the 34th annual intercollegiate A.A.A.A. championship. Deciding event: the two-mile relay (won by Syracuse U.), in which Manhattan's anchor man, Tom Lindgren, took time out between heats to rush his pregnant wife to a hospital,* came back to help earn a vital third. Final scores: Manhattan 27, Villanova 22½, Penn State 18.
¶ At Hialeah, Fla., Belair Stud's favorite son, Nashua, needed Eddie Arcaro's whip to remind him of his work before he romped home, winner by...
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