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...dashes, Yale should score ten points to the Crimson's eight, with Miller counted upon to annex the 100-yard dash and take second to Norton in the furlong. Kane and Paulsen will fight it out in the quarter, with Clark of Yale conceded the odd point. FIGURES AND FANCY Harvard Yale Track Events 100-Yard 5 4 220-Yard 8 6 440-Yard 3 6 Half Mile 6 2 Mile 9 0 Two Mile 8 1 High Hurdles 8 6 Low Hurdles 8 6 Field Events Shot Put 6 3 Discus 6 5 Javelin 4 5 Hammer...
...expectations and succeeded in lopping a fifth of a second from his own record in the 100 yard dash, when he led Glendenning to the tape by four feet in an even ten second performance. The Dartmouth flyer, who was expected to challenge Miller again in the furlong race pulled a tendon in the broad jump and was unable to compete. Miller, because of this, was dropped out of the 220 yard final. F. P. Kane '20 returned a double winner and a record smasher, in two beautiful races. He established a new quarter mile mark of 40 seconds...
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...three strides, Prince de Bourbon was in front, Backbone close behind him. The obliging gentlemen gasped. First furlong. Backbone, already dizzy, had slipped back. The mile. Prince de Bourbon was lengths in front. The obliging gentlemen loosed their striped collars with trembling forefingers. But ho!-American Flag, in second place, was behaving queerly. Jockey Johnson, on his back, did not lift his hands, raise his whip. But American Flag bounded past Prince de Bourbon as if the latter were shod with billets. To his owner, Samuel D. Riddle, went the stakes, and a great silver basket donated by the late...
...thought, but Quatrain was the best horse in the race, the horse he had wanted to ride; Quatrain could catch him. He was running between solid lanes of people; the finish was almost upon him. With a tremendous, unnecessary effort, he lifted Flying Ebony down the last half furlong. A length and a half behind came Captain Hal. Four lengths back, Singlefoot led the struggling, straggling pack. Sande found himself with a gold cup in his hand, a bunch of roses in his arms, on the back of Flying Ebony, smiling into the cameras that make the world...