Word: batons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week ago these two sensational quarter milers met in the final leg of the one mile relay championship at the Penn Relay Carnival on Franklin Field, Philadelphia. Bohannon, starting the final lap with a considerable lead, seized the baton and raced around the track in a remarkable dash which was unofficially clocked at 48 3-5 seconds, winning for his team the one mile championship, and for himself sudden fame as a quarter miler. Allen was far behind when at last the Harvard stick was handed to him, but he ran a sensational losing race, completing the circuit...
...early in his sprint and was forced to hobble around the track for 180 yards, while the runners for Boston College and Yale forger far ahead. Starting with this tremendous handicap, Baggorty, the Freshman anchor man, began to cut down this lead from the time he took up the baton for the mile run. It seemed a hopeless task. But at the start of the last lap he uncorked a terrific sprint which enabled him to nose the Yale Freshman miler out of second place at the very finish, although the Boston College runner had streaked ahead to first place...
...mile relay, F. P. Kane '26 led off with Hill of Dartmouth. For three laps nothing happened, Hill a stride in the lead. Then Kane struck, passed his adversary, who retorted with the same performance. Kane passed him again lengthened out his lead, and when he gave the baton to Allen, the Big Green was tottering along some 10 yards in the rear. The race was over then, Allen, W. L. Chapin '25 and B. R. Cutcheon '25 holding this lead...
Then the orchestra began to tune up, just as if it were talking over the pieces it was to play, as children sometimes talk all together, at recess. Two taps, and Mr. Schelling began to wave his magic baton. First they played Chopin's A Major Polonaise, and you could imagine people dancing to it. Then they played Bach's beautiful Air for G String, and Scipione Guidi, concert master, showed what rich tones could come from a violin...
...beautiful race, trailing Dudley of the B. A. A. by only a stride in the first few laps, and then passing him on the next to the last lap, and piling up a 20 yard lead. B. A. A. lost several yards by clumsy handling of the baton, and J. H. Sherburne '24 was able to gain and hold a 35 yard advantage. A. L. Coburn '24, however, failed to maintain this lead, and Larrabee, of B. A. A., doing some excellent running, went by him on the last lap. L. B. R. Barker Jr. '26, at anchor for Harvard...