> Harvard’s crew: the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges sprint championships, by a length, at Lake Quinsigamond, Mass. Despite choppy water and a 15-knot headwind, the unbeaten Crimson crewmen stuck to their shovel-like smooth-water oars, leaped into the lead at the start of the 2,000-meter race, and held on to edge Cornell, chalk up their fourth straight victory, and establish themselves as a top candidate to represent the U.S. at next autumn’s Olympics in Tokyo.
>Britain’s Graham Hill, 35: the Grand Prix of Monaco, first race counting toward the world driving championship. Urging his B.R.M. into the lead on the 53rd lap, the mustachioed Hill zipped through Monte Carlo’s narrow streets at a record average of 72.6 m.p.h. to beat the U.S.’s Richie Ginther by one lap and win the 195-mile race for the second straight year. Scotland’s Jimmy Clark, the 1963 champion, was forced to abandon his Lotus when it lost oil pressure six milesfrom the finish.
— Grambling College’s sprint relay team (TIME, May 15): a clean sweep at the Los Angeles Coliseum Relays, winning the 440-yd. relay in 40.2 sec. and the 880 in 1 min. 23.8 sec. In other events, Villanova University tied the world record with a 7 min. 19 sec. clocking in the two-mile relay; California’s Dallas Long easily won the shotput with a toss of 65 ft. 51 in. (14 in. shy of his pending world record); and Arizona State’s Henry Carr beat Florida A. & M.’s Bob Hayes, the “world’s fastest human,” in the 200-meter dash.
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