Sport: Scoreboard, Jun. 11, 1956

¶ After eating the dust of John Landy and Jim Bailey while those two Aussies ran better-than-four-minute miles last month, Ireland's Ron Delany developed a taste for speed himself. Carefully pacing himself on the fast track at Compton, Calif., the Villanova sophomore kicked past Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen in the stretch and clocked a neat 3:59 flat. He had it all timed so nicely that he pulled Nielsen past the four-minute barrier with him. Nielsen's time: 3:59.1. ¶ Bulge-upholstered Paul Anderson, the 325-lb. strongman from Toccoa, Ga., played around with the big bar bell at the National A.A.U.'s weight-lifting championships and casually...