Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bus Curwen and Bill Drucker, old standbys, provided high spots in the Yardling victory with victories in the 220, 440, and backstroke. Shaw McCutchcon piled up a 94.9 total in the dive, good enough to top any of the Varsity spring board artists that night, and won the event in a walk...
...joint. During his 60 years in railroading and 30 years as president of B. & O., Dan Willard has been a competitive spirit, and when he fought the increase (which was forced on B. & O.) he protested loudly that it was playing squarely into the hands of the bus lines...
...definitely in favor," said he, "of the railroads meeting the challenge of bus competition, which so far we in the east have not done." So far as he was concerned the 2? fare was just what the harried railroads needed, and he plumped resoundingly for a 1½? round-trip fare along with...
Passenger Traffic Manager Walter B. Galloway reported that B. & O. had found out what the high fare meant just two months after it went into effect. From the Washington terminal its 1938 Labor Day traffic was the lowest in history, while the bus lines were hiring everything on wheels to move the holiday traffic...
Coach Pete Peterson's Freshmen won a genuine thriller. The performance of Bus Curwen was outstanding, for not only did he win the 220 and 440, but anchored the 440-yard relay team to victory almost immediately after finishing his 5:38.5 quarter-mile. It was an iron-man stunt reminiscent of Charlie Hutter's 100-220-440 feat against Yale in 1937. Curwen was under orders to loaf as much as possible in the first two events and in the final contest his teammates labored to hand him at least a two second margin over his opponent...