Sport: Scoreboard, may 7, 1956
¶Anchored by Irish Ron Delany, Villanova's medley relay team ran the distance (2½ miles) in jig time (a meet-record of 9:58.1) at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia to beat Oxford's English invaders by a long 20 yds. Next day when the Britons came back to run off with the four-mile and two-mile relays, Villanova and Delany retaliated by taking the sprint medley and setting another meet record (3:11.9) in the one-mile relay. Pitt's Arnie Sowell, U.S. Olympic hope at 800 meters, got no help from his teammates, and went home for the third year in a row without a winner's gold watch.
¶Rain slicked the winding mountain roads, slowing the entrants in Italy's 992-mile road race, the Mille Miglia. But before Milan's Eugenio Castellotti drove his tomato-red Ferrari to victory, two drivers and three spectators were killed, 16 others (including ten drivers) were injured.
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