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Died. John Borican, 29, Negro middle-distance runner, record-breaking all-round athlete, only man ever to hold the national decathlon and pentathlon championships at the same time; after wasting away from 170 lb. to 110 in three months; in Bridgeton...
...products of this Harvard opportunity is Big John Borican who came here from Virginia State College as a hurdler. Borican got his "lift" at Harvard--and has never forgotten it. Moreover I wrote an ANP story praising Mr. Bingham not very long ago. Several colored colleges came to Cambridge in 1936. Look up the records. The facts are there...
...fastest runners are annually invited to stretch their legs on its phenomenally fast, six-and-two-thirds-laps-to-the-mile spruce track-with Dartmouth runners acting as pacemakers. There, two years ago, iron legged Glenn Cunningham ran his amazing 4:04.4 mile. Last year Negro John Borican set world's indoor records for a half-mile (1:49.8) and 800 metres (1:49.2). Last week, at Dartmouth's third record-smashing jamboree, 1,500 onlookers saw not one or two, but eight world's records fall...
...Negro John Youie Woodruff, loping around in nine-foot strides, erased the records Borican set last year. His 1:47.7 clocking for the half-mile and 1:47 flat for 800 metres were even better than the outdoor marks for those distances made by Briton Sydney Wooderson last summer...
...Negro John Borican erased a 15-year-old indoor record when he ran a three-quarter-mile...