Word: flints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult to single out any member of the K of C group (or of the entire squad, for that matter) for special attention. They are all supplying Jaakko with the maximum amount of effort. Yet, if there is a white-haired boy, hurdler Wes Flint fits the label as well as anybody else...
...returned veterans who have been pumping plasma into a wartime casualty track squad, Flint is perhaps the most polished member of the current team. His fluid-drive style of skimming the barriers make him look good even in defeat. In the recent triangular practice meet, Flint won the 60-yard highs in 7.6, beating wartime IC4A winner Ted Sparrow, of Tufts...
Whether he can do as well Saturday night is something else again. Sparrow will be on hand. So will Sweden's Haakon Lidnan, Dillard (Baldwin Wallace), Nelson (NYU), Mitchell (Indiana), Alberghini (Northeastern), and a flock of lesser timber toppers. The 45-yard distance is short for Flint, who needs a lot of room in which to get rolling. He will have Dave Read as a running-mate...
Time trials decided which relay men would get the chance to test the Garden's now $25,000 board saucer. The results turned out pretty much as expected. Dave Hamblett, Al Ruby, Jim Wheeler, and Wes Flint will carry the mail for Harvard in the one-mile test, while Ted Withington, Johnry Cogan, Frank Gurley, and Dave Groshong will run in the longer event...
...running order will be announced at meet time. The one-mile combine is undefeated so far this season, their best effort coming against Northeastern on the Briggs balcony oval. In whipping the Huskies, Wharton, Ruby, Wheeler, and Flint were clocked in 3:30.1 with Flint misjudging the finish line and jogging the last ten yards. Cliff Wharton, not yet in top condition, will fill in for any of the eight relay men Saturday night if needed...