Fast Manhattan Relay Beats Crimson Four

NEW YORK, Feb. 4--Dick Wharton's lunge at the tape wasn't quite enough tonight, and the Manhattan mile relay team held off the Crimson quartet in the Mill-rose Games at Madison Square Garden. Manhattan won in 3:21.3, the fastest in the seven college mile relays.

The Kelly Green took an early lead in the race and Jim Cairns of the Crimson was fourth at the gun. On the second lap, however, he passed runners from Morgan State and Villanova, and finished his quarter in 51.3.

Here, previously unbeaten Villanova went out of the race on a fumbled baton, and it was a two-team race for the last three quarters. French Anderson lost a couple of yards to Gerald Ryan of Manhattan, but Al Wills won them back with a 49.8 turn, and Wharton took the baton only four yards behind Dick Simmons of the Jaspers. He pulled ahead briefly with a lap to go, and fell back.