Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the Poughkeepsie contest still unreconstructed, the nation-wide struggle out west is the outstanding rowing event of the inter-collegiate season. Hence a victory, unlooked for by even the most rabid of Crimson rooters, or a finish among the top three eights, would mean that the current Bolles aggregation would return the sweep swingers to a position somewhere near the top of the heap spot that Nowell operatives have traditionally held...
...decline and fall of our athletic prowess has been going on so long that I find myself thinking up excuses for our probable defeat even before the event has started...
Pacing the Mikkola forces were two first place winners; Pete Harwood, outstanding New England pole vaulter, who successfully defended the crown he won last year with a vault of 12 feet, 6 inches, and Bill Jackson, whose 47 feet, 5 5/3 inch shot put garnered that event. Jackson also took third place in the discus throw, won by Dartmouth's Sam Felton...
...only other Crimson representative to place was Dave Murray, who was second in the javelin throw, an event in which the winner, GI Milt Kodash, set a new meet record with a heave of 193 feet, 9 inches...
...mile Indianapolis Memorial Day race is famed as a testing ground for new auto gadgets. But this race, the first since 1941, was mostly a contest between patched-up prewar jobs. Only nine of the 33 starters finished. The largest crowd ever to watch a U.S. sport event (175,000 people) saw shy George Robson, 36, in his third try at Indianapolis, cross the line first. He averaged 114 m.p.h. in his light blue, alcohol-burning Thorne Special. His reward: about $48,000 in prizes and a trip around the world...