¶ Manhattan College’s track & field team, the I.C. 4-A meet; in Manhattan. Competing against 53 colleges, Manhattan’s speedsters ran away from the field wich 42 points to 19 2/5 for runnerup Army.
¶ Veteran Jaroslav Drobny, 33, a self-exiled Czech, the French Tennis Championship, over Australia’s Frank Sedgman, 6-2, 6-0, 3-6, 6-4; in Paris.
¶ The Aga Khan’s Tulyar, the 173rd and richest ($57,335) Epsom Derby. It was the Aga’s fifth Derby, and a triumph for Britain’s two-bob bettors, who favored Tulyar against the London bookies who picked French horses to finish 1-2-3-4.
¶ Britain’s Bill Nankeville, the 1,500-meter race at the British track & field games; in London. Nankeville’s spectacular time, 3:49, the equivalent of a 4:06 mile, was good enough to beat Don Gehrmann, the U.S.’s best, by ten yards.
¶ Yorkshire’s Len Hutton, the captaincy of Britain’s cricket team for this week’s Test Match with India; in London. Hutton, 13th player ever to make a 100th century, i.e., score 100 (or more) runs in one inning, is the first professional ever to captain a British team.
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