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...have to size up his charges in toto will be the intramural meet scheduled for Thursday. For the first time in the long record of intramural meets, prises will be awarded in four field and four running events. The field events will be high jump, pole vault, hammer, and discus; the running events the 100, 300, 600 yard, and a distance race between two of the Charles River bridges...
...Blozis, world's No. 1 shotputter, undefeated in three years of I.C.4-A competition, hurled the 16-lb. shot 55 ft., 4⅞ in. for a new meet record, then won the discus throw with a toss...
Leading the Crimson contingent will be 1942-43 captain hurdler Don MacKinnon, who will enter both the high and low events. Dick Pflster and Pete Garland will participate in the shot and discus, and both Fishers (Jack and Bill), with Tom White, will toss the hammer...
Bonner Wins Discus...
...greatest upset apple-cart from the Harvard point of view was John Bonner's surprising win in the discus, the last event which decided the meet. Big Jack, who had never topped 142 feet in competition before, came through in fine style as he heaved the platter a nifty 153 feet, five inches, to take the event, and clinch the laurels for the team. His showing was the best example all afternoon of Jaakko's pre-meet prediction and generalization that "the harder the competition, the harder they will fight...