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Mikkola regards the match as a warm-up session and will have no scruples about leaving proven men on the side-lines to nurse injuries or simply make way for ambitious novices. Larry Corbett is in the former category with a sprained back and Dave Ives and Doug Pirnie will restrict their activities to the dashes. Sophomore Bill Maygar, who reached 21 feet 9 inches broad jumping in prep school, will thereby be given his first whack at outside collegiate competition...
...victory in the mile relay was easily the day's thriller. Larry Corbett kept neck-and-neck with his opponent Riley, and in the second lap Ted Graves loped ahead by a large margin. McCarthy overtook Harvard's Lyons, and Dowd widened the lead over Crimson anchor man Tom Watkins...
Harvard is shaky in the distance runs. Both Dan Hamilton and Frank McKechnie are fifty-second men for the 440 but not yet consistent winners. Tom Watkins, a converted sprinter, and Sophomores Ted Graves and Larry Corbett, who have broken fifty-three seconds are the other men in the quarter. In the half-mile Bill Young and Rolle Campbell, out of school last year but having done 1:56 two years ago, are most promising. Fred Phinney and Paul Cook, at present incapacitated with a bad leg, lead the supporting cast...
...CORBETT...
...since Jack Johnson pounded Jim Jeffries to his knees under a scorching Reno sun, and thereby marred the greatest record in the history of the heavyweight game. . . . Jeff had beaten the titans of his era-men who would have ranked as titans in any era-fighters like Gentleman Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Sharkey. And beaten them each, not once, but twice, before retiring as undefeated champion-only to be lured back into the ring again after six years by public clamor for a "White Hope." But that needless humiliation and punishment did more than just mar Jeff...