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...best runners to date. "Fitzgerald is from North Scituate," he said; "he ran a 4:25 mile in high school.... I don't know much about Harrison except that he went to Deerfield; but he's been looking very strong so far. In last week's Handicap race, he came to me asking for a lower handicap than we'd originally assigned him. We gave it to him and he finished fifth overall; and that includes the varsity...
With just three weeks of practice and last Monday's highly informal Handicap race behind it, the varsity will meet in Maine one of the strongest opponents it is likely to face all year...
Norris has consistently been among the top three or four Crimson runners for two years, and finished well ahead of Maine's best in the 1956 IC4As. Benjamin last spring developed into a very strong two-miler and placed among the leaders in the Handicap race...
...race was begun amid the usual squabbles over the size of the handicaps. Dave Rosenthal, a varsity hurdler, was awarded the biggest handicap, seven minutes over the "scratch" runners and at least two minutes over all others...
...remainder of the Yardlings all had a two-minute handicap. Edwin Harrington and Jacques LaFrance were the leaders among this group, each recording corrected times of just over 20 minutes...