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Married. Britain's General Sir John Dill, 59, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; and Nancy Furlong, 35, ambulance driver in the Battle of France, widow of Brigadier General Denis Furlong, killed on duty in England last year; in London...
...approaching weekend's schedule, Doug Pirnie appears to be the Harvard trackman most likely to succeed except for the threat presented by Barney Ewell of Penn State, who won both dashes and the broad jump last year. Last Saturday Pirnie, backed by a stiff breeze, did the furlong in 20.7 seconds. His best unaided time was 21.8 in the Dartmouth fray...
Captain Donahue high - scored the Varsity meeting with 13 tallies through his hurdles' grand slam, doing the 120-yard lows in 15.3 and the 220-highs in a mediocre 24.7 seconds, and a second place in the furlong dash. In the two timber races his teammates Roger Schafer and Don MacKinnon exchanged seconds and thirds for a Crimson sweep of the events...
Only Jim Welsh of Michigan and possibly his teammate, Jack Patten, can be rated above the Crimson captain, who turned in a sizzling 2:13.8 to win the furlong in the Eastern Intercollegiates at Annapolis last Saturday. Welsh swam a 2:11.4 earlier in the season, but Powers was clocked in 2:11.2 in a practice session and with two more weeks of training might conceivably chop off a few more tenths of a second...
Powers, who recently squelched Yale's famed freestyler Johnson with 2:14.5 for the furlong, qualified with a slow 2:15.2, finishing fourth in his heat. Tomorrow's finals will be a more strenuous test for the tankmen, as they will meet the champion college swimmers of the East...