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Back in the thirties rugby was an accepted sport in Harvard-Yale-Princeton environs. The high point of the rugby season in those days was the annual jaunt to Bermuda over Easter vacation, when English teams vied for an "international collegiate championship" with their American equals. The Bermuda Athletic Association served as general host at the parties and banquets and likewise had an interest in the exchange of trophies...
Exploding power which may well carry it to the IC4A championship this Saturday, Yale swept the mile, two-mile, and 600, won both relays, and scored heavily in every other event except the dash and 35-pound weight throw. In the latter event, Sam Felton, who placed second in the Nationals Saturday, hit 56 feet, 9 1/2 inches. This would have won the Nationals, where Felton's best effort was a toss of 54 feet...
...Dodds's races, including the New York Athletic Club's Baxter Mile, and sadly told reporters that the Iron Deacon had probably "run the last indoor race" of his career. But Ryder hoped to get Dodds back in shape to win the outdoor 1,500-meter Olympic championship at London this summer, before he retires to take up preaching fulltime...
...third time in a month, New Jersey's 18-year-old Dick Button out-darted Switzerland's Hans Gerschweiler to win the men's world figure-skating championship. He had already won the European and Olympic titles at Prague and St. Moritz. Defending Champion Gerschweiler did a pratfall during an Axel Paulsen in the free-skating. Three of the nine judges rated Button's performance 5.9 (perfect...
...Canada's Barbara Ann Scott won the women's world championship for the second year in a row, making it all three for her too. Several outclassed rivals, including overtrained U.S. Champion Gretchen Merrill, didn't bother to compete. But Barbara Ann practiced with unflagging zeal, cautiously observing that "anything can happen." Nothing out of the ordinary...