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Died. Walter Louis Hakanson, 64, Denver Y.M.C.A. executive, who in 1932 coined the name "softball" and wrote the first national rules for a game that was invented in 1895 by a Minneapolis fireman (he called it "kitten-ball"), but which never caught on until the Depression, when millions of unemployed found it a way to pass their time; after a long illness; in Denver...
...high hurdles--Won by Green (H); second, Kickham (BU); third, Henderson (NU); fourth, Hakanson (NU); Crawford (H). Time--15 1-5 sec. (new record...
...meter low hurdles--Won by Hayes (BC); second. Hakanson (N); third, Richard C. Hayes; fourth, Johnson (MIT); fifth, O'Leary (BC); time, 25 1-5 seconds...
...meter dash--Won by McManus (BC); second, Joyce (BC); third, Robert S. Brookings '35; fourth, Hakanson (N); time, 11 seconds...
...pound class E. Ottie '11 threw W. Stewart, and was defeated by I. Hakanson...
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