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Track and field officials vow to save Millrose Games

John Jeansonne

Newsday columnist John Jeansonne.

Jeansonne has been a reporter in Newsday’s sports department since

Save the whale of an event that is the Millrose Games, Dr. Norb Sander advocated. Rare and old in a Galapagos Islands sort of way - a national treasure among track and field zealots - the Millrose, Sander argued, still has a place in the rip-snorting world or modern sports and must be preserved in its natural environment.

And that is why Sander, the point man in reviving the 168th Street Armory...

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