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...reason for this record attendance at an early season meet is due to the interest aroused in one event,--the 440 yards dash. In this event the two headline performers will be Allen of Harvard and Captain Bohannon of Virginia...
...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...
Comsequently when the two quarter-milers meet on the stadium track this afternoon they will have an old fend to settle between them. And although Bohannon is slated too win, track enthusiasts are ensured of a race which will be equal of any intercollegiate dash in the country when the two rivals meet. The time is expected to nick 40 seconds. Subordinate parts in this quarter mile drama will be played by Talbot of Virginia and Kane of Harvard, both of whom ran in the mile relay at Philadelphia last week...
...could not keep the Harvard team from trailing far behind the Virginia, Yale, and Holy Cross runners. A bad position at the starting line and a poor get-away accounted in part for the Crimson's failure to place. But a still greater cause was the phenomenal running of Bohannon, Virginia's anchor man, and Chapman of Yale, who streaked ahead to first and second place despite Allen's valiant effort to catch...