Word: crofts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Your July 12 issue was delivered by the Mexican postman at 4 p.m. on July 14, to this address. This is pretty good going-is it not? TERRELL CROFT...
...stroke-thwart was E. C. Hamilton-Russell. The bird-like little coxswain before him had a plain name, J. A. Brown, but J. A. Brown was impressive enough for the Oxonians. J. A. Brown had already steered two Cantab crews to victory in as many years and Sir James Croft, the mouse-eyed little man in the Oxford stern, peeked over at him nervously. But Sir Jeremy could have been by no means so nervous as two others present: R. T. B. Craggs, Cambridge No. 4, who had been substituted at the last minute for a man down with measles...
...Yards Dash.--Won by Helffrich, Penn State; second, Croft, Princeton; third, Bates, Dartmouth; fourth, Chapman, Yale; fifth, Gage Yale. Time...
...world at large following their two-to-one win over the Crimson team in the Palmer Stadium last Saturday. Koene Fitzpatrick has one of the outstanding hurdlers of the year in Scatter good. It has a tested sprinter in McKim. It has a quarter miler of known ability in Croft; a 1923 point scorer in the half mile in conger. Miler Betts scored in the indoor intercollegiate and may pick up a point or two at the Harvard track the last two days in May. But the real Tiger strength lies in the field events...
Allen, for example, had been slated as a sure winner in the 440 yards dash. But actual competition on Saturday found him taking third place to Croft and Hitzrot of Princeton in a 50 1-5 quarter. Cutcheon, the favorite for the mile, was beaten by Taylor of Princeton in 4 minutes 29 2-5 seconds. Fletcher had seemed good for second place in both the high and the low hurdles and although he was within touching distance of the Princeton hurdles all the way down the line, he could get no better than third in each race...