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Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 10, 1958

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¶From the moment he entered Madison Square Garden for the I.C. 4-A. championships, Villanova’s great miler. Ron Delany, 22, never seemed to stop running, though he never got around to running the mile. He had to run a qualifying heat for the 1,000-yd. title, then in the race itself made a gut-wrenching rush in the last two laps to win. Less than an hour later, he jogged out for the grueling two-mile grind, found the wind for one more of his famous finishing kicks and won by 6 yds. Still scorning records and running simply to win. Ron scored his double victory for the second year in a row, took the team title for Villanova by just 2⅓ points over Manhattan. ¶Going down the stretch in a wild scramble to win Hialeah’s $135,000 Flamingo Stakes, Jockey Manuel Ycaza whipped at his bay mount. Jewel’s Reward, with understandable zeal. But Jewel’s Reward flinched from the lefthanded slashing, carried wide and collided with Calumet’s fast-closing Tim Tarn. And when Tim Tam, with Champion Willie Hartack aboard, was nosed out at the wire, Willie lodged a protest. He did not have to. The stewards were already scrutinizing the movies of the race. They decided that Tim Tam had indeed been fouled, set Jewel’s Reward back to second place and named Willie’s colt the winner.

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