Sport: Top Men

The nation’s two top milers, Don Gehrmann and Fred Wilt, were primed last week to win their first national indoor titles at the A.A.U. track & field championships in Manhattan. Gehrmann, who intended to run only in the 1,000-yd. event this time, never arrived; his plane was grounded in Milwaukee by bad weather. FBI-man Wilt, a New Yorker, had no such travel problems. He won the mile race (by 20 yds.) in 4:09.4. Other title winners:

THE REV. ROBERT RICHARDS, who vaulted 15 ft., the second time he has cleared that height in competition.

TOM BANE, Tufts College senior, who tossed the 35-lb. weight for a new meet record of 59 ft. 4½ in. (18½ in. short of the world record Bane set earlier in the week in a dual meet with Brown).

THE GEORGETOWN RELAY TEAM, which set a new meet record (7:36.8) in the two-mile relay.