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Senior track sensation Darlene Beckford, coming off a personal best in the U.S. West Germany dual meet in Durham, N.C., wound up second to veteran Francie Larrieu Smith in the 1500-meter run with a 4:13.17 clocking...
...Beckford a Cambridge native, broke past Larrieu Smith in the final straightaway at the Indiana University Stadium, but the elder statesman of America's female distance runners kicked past the Crimson star in the final 10 meters to take the tape...
Although more than 20 Harvard team members qualified for last weekend's championship, only seven decided to complete. Among those who opted to stay in Cambridge to sun and study were All-Americans Darlenc Beckford and Kate Wiley, as well as University pentathion, heptathlon and hurdles record holder Mariquita "Skeets" Patterson...
Just as they have done all year, the Harvard distance runners brushed off all competition, effortlessly taking every event from the 400 on up Junior Darlene Beckford, who is versatile enough to run in a different contest every meet, took the 400 in a 58.5 clocking, despite a limited amount of training and speed work last week. Kathy Busby followed her in second place with a personal best of 59.4, both were well under the previous school record...
...NOTEBOOK: The next meet for the thinclads will be the Eastern AIAWs, to be held in two weeks at St. Johns College in New York. Because it will be during Harvard's reading period, a number of competitors have already decided not to compete, Looking even further ahead. Beckford does not think she will run in the National AIAW Championships at the end of June because of exams and the drain of female track talent to the NCAA side this year...