Word: batons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale freshmen were unable to make the trip at the last minute. J. W. Quinn '23 started the Crimson lead by handing a 10-yard gain to C. H. Hawes '23. R. P. Bolster, however, passed Hawes and when the third man, R. O. Howard '23, took the baton he was slightly behind the Technology yearling. In the last stretch Howard fought his way past Deming, and J. E. Kennedy '23 doubled Howard's lead giving the Freshmen the race by eight yards in 3 minutes, 17 seconds...
Practice for the University was light yesterday. The track work consisted mainly of baton passing and sprinting, in which E. O. Gourdin '21 and R. Chute '22 showed good form. In the Cage there was practice for the field events, especially for the pole-vaulters...
...Goodwin '20, J. A. McCarthy '22, and D. F. O'Connell '21, ran in this race two, four, six and eight laps respectively. Wharton, the first runner, outran Davison of Cornell in the first two laps and turned over a 15-yard lead to Goodwin when he took the baton. For the first lap Goodwin increased his lead to 20 yards, but John of the Ithaca team speeded up in the second and third laps and cut the lead to five yards. A spurt in the final lap brought him abreast of Goodwin at the take-off line...
...sensational race and cut down the lead in every lap. In the seventh round he drew even with Dickinson, only to have the latter go once more to the front at the beginning of the final lap. O'Connell spurted in the last 100 yards and carried the Crimson baton across the tape by a three-yard margin...