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...pole vault and high hurdles featured the Varsity track team's participation in the Knights of Columbus meet at the Boston Garden athletes turned in outstanding performances before more than 12,000 spectators at Boston's first big league meet of the season, but individual laurels went to Wes Flint, who took third place in the 45-yard high hurdle event won by AAU champion Harrison Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace, and later anchored the mile relay team to its triumph...
...Flint's performance was noteworthy in that he nosed out highly-regarded Haakon Lidman, of Sweden, and Bill Mitchell, a topflight entry from Indiana. Dillard set a new meet record in the 45-yard high hurdles at 5.6 trailed by a yard by Ted Sparrow, the Tufts athlete with whom Flint has been engaging in personal duels ever since prep school. Flint edged Sparrow in the Tufts-Northeastern- Harvard informal meet two weeks ago, but the Jumbo timber-topper reversed the process Saturday night...
...Ruby gave the Varsity a lead it never relinquished. All three runners were bunched closely together at the end of the first 440 yards, but Ruby's spurt and the loss of a baton by the second Holy Cross runner gave Harvard a five yard lead. Flint was pushed slightly in the final hundred yards, but maintained the same five-yard advantage as he breasted the tape...
Brown finished second, and Holy Cross never returned to contention after the second leg lapse. The Varsity quintet's time, 3:30.4, was three-tenths of a second slower than its performance in Briggs Cage against Tufts and Northeastern. Ruby, Flint, Dave Hamblett, and Jim Wheeler made up the winning combination...
...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...