Word: batons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Donovan spent most of the time at track practice yesterday working with the relay team candidates. After warming them up and giving them practice in starting and passing the baton, he organized informal teams and raced them against each other. The teams were composed of both University and Freshmen candidates, and as they were not chosen with reference to their ability, no times were taken. The races were merely for the purpose of giving all the men, especially the Freshmen, practice under racing conditions. That such practice is necessary in the case of the 1924 relay asspirants was evident...
...silver loving cup, which was won last year by Standish, and the two previous years by the Smith Halls. While the judges are deciding on the winner, the three choruses will combine in singing a few well-known pieces. After this, President Lowell will present the Jubilee Cup and Baton to the leader of the evening chorus, who will then lead the class in singing "Fair Harvard...
...races of the year. At the start of the race, E. C. Driscoll of Yale took the lead and set the pace for W. H. Goodwin '20 until the last lap, when Goodwin pushed him hard. A. W. Douglas '21 started off with a yard handicap, but fumbled the baton and lost three yards to W. D. Prizer. On the last lap Douglas spurted past the Yale runner, and gave J. A. McCarthy '22 a two-yard lead...
McCarthy, likewise, fumbled the baton, and F. W. Hillis of Yale succeeded in giving a one-yard lead to T. J. O'Brien, the Yale anchor-man. Captain D. F. O'Connell '21 ran his usual steady race and in the last lap made a desperate attempt to beat O'Brien to the tape, losing by a foot...
...outcome of the race was doubtful at first, but when O'Connell took the baton he was quite a distance behind the Tiger runner and although he ran a fine race he was unable to overcome the Princeton man's lead and finished 10 yards behind...