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...Union announced yesterday that Colonel Charles Wellington Furlong will speak in the Living Room on Thursday, December...
...metre dash is 9 yards 1 foot over the regular century sprint and 20 0 metres is 1 yard 10 inches less than the furlong. There will not, however, be double finish tapes in these events, nor in the 1500 metre race, which is 120 yards less than a mile...
...Jockeys. Black Gold was ridden by J.D. Mooney, New Orleans boy. Mooney, hitherto little known, rode a perfect race. He got his mount out of a bad "pocket" of horses at the first turn, he took him from sixth place to third on the five furlong* back stretch, and he brought him in a winner in the last quarter of a mile. Sande, who rode Zev to a victory over the English horse Papyrus last October, kept Bracadale at a fast pace all the way around the track. He was always in the lead for the first mile...
Harvard's moments of triumph came in the sprints and middle distances, when Captain Lundell took first place over both the century and furlong distances, and Haggerty running a pair of remarkable races, led in both the half mile and the mile...
Norton is also to win the 220-yards dash, and Allen and Arneil, his team mates are to take what is left of the places, as "there is no furlong runner at Harvard who should even make it interesting for this trio of Yale sprinters...