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Mile relay: Tom Watkins, Larry Corbett, Jack Eberle, Doug Pirnie or Don MacKinnon...
...mile relay team has been struck heavily by sickness. Ted Graves has sinus trouble, and Ted Meredith is laid up with a pulled muscle. But Larry Corbett, a Sophomore who starred in both Millrose and B. A. A. contests, and Tom Watkins, who never ran over 220 yards last year, insure a strong combination...
...Watkins, Corbett, Pirnie, and Donahue foursome won the final relay by about ten feet in 2:13.2, and Pirnie squeezed out a third in the broad jump. Bob Partlow won the event with a leap of 22 feet five inches. Previously, he and John Bunker had tied for first in the high jump...
...Graves, Rolla Cambell, and Larry Corbett will race the 600-yard event; while Joe Scott and Bob Houghton, who ran the mile last year, are in the 1000-yard run. In the high jump are Bob Partlow, John Bunker, and Mike Zara; Kay Rogers and John Sopka are running the mile...
...fear that action pictures of the conquests of big, black Champion Jack Johnson (who not only mauled white fisticuffers but married a white woman) would cause race riots. Of all the bumper crop of white hopes raised to beat Johnson, the choice of Roosevelt I and of Gentleman Jim Corbett was the then reigning national amateur heavyweight champion, 22-year-old Warren Barbour. Boxer Barbour, son of a wealthy thread manufacturer and known to his many admirers as "The Millionaire Kid," was not averse, but his parents dissuaded him from turning professional. Last year, with another and more popular Negro...