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Last week Mr. Tarn entered Blixtra in a six-furlong race at Aurora, Ill. with new hope. He had remembered that the Cubans told him to feed the horse pineapples. Pineapple-fed Blixtra dashed from the post at Aurora, came in four lengths ahead...
...will pair with DeVoe, Eli captain. Watkins will handle the short dashes, and Dodge wil compete in the quarter. A dual race at New Haven some time within the next ten days between Kollmyer and Warner of the Yale squad will determine Dodge's partner in the double furlong...
...jump, and discus throw, won by J. J. Healey '34. Healey broke the college record, hurling the discus 144 feet and 2 inches, but the new mark was not counted because of the high wind. G. H. Porter '34 took first place for Smith Halls in the century and furlong sprints...
Estes, Crimson lead-off man in the four-mile relay, handed over a five-yard lead to Fobes. Fobes, passed by Dean of Penn, left Hallowell ten yards behind McNiff; the star miler closed the gap to a stride with a sprint over the last furlong. Cobb, only a stride behind Penn's veteran miler the entire distance, ceded second place to Martin of Cornell on the last lap. Sutermeister, in the vault, seemed unable to command his usual power...
Record and Dodge will run the furlong distances in the sprint medley, Kollmyer the quarter, and Cobb the half. "This race will be a gamble," Farrell stated yesterday; "Penn will be strong." Shea, Northeastern star who broke the college 440-yard record last week with a 50 2-5 second time, will run on the Huskies' sprint medley four. M. I. T. will have only one veteran, Jewett, on its quartet...