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With national AAU cross country champion Bob Black leading the way, Rhode Island State ran away from Boston University and the Varsity yesterday over the 4 1/4 mile Franklin Park course...
Three men represent the United States in each track event at the Olympic games, and they will be chosen at a meet to be held late next spring in Minneapolis. The national AAU meet and the NCAA meet will be the semi-finals for the decisive Minneapolis meet, with former U. S. Olympic representatives eligible, without placing in the semi-finals...
...justified six months ahead of time. Both a boxer and a wrestler, Fuller intends to tryout for the Olympic team on both squads and stands about an equal chance of making either one. As a fighter Fuller has lost only one fight, a close decision to national AAU champ, Willie Clemmons, two weeks ago in the Garden, while winning 26 other fights, 21 by knockouts. Clemmons plans to turn pro the first of next year, but Fuller may fight him in a return match toward the end of November. A heavyweight, he has not met most of the other possible...
Most distinguished personal achievement was that of Ted Norris, who reported to practice this fall as the unofficial National AAU long distance champion, as a result of his summer performance at Williams Lake, Rosendale, New York. In a field of almost thirty competitors, cream of the country's long distance aces, Norris never relinquished the lead in the eight-lap four-mile grind...
Meeting the New Jerseyans now, and even a team in the Eastern Intercollegiates, like Penn, is strictly an anticlimax after being worried over by the Bulldogs. Tonight's opponent is loaded with GI talent, and boasts in a breast-stroker named Charlie Gantner a number one man in National AAU competition...