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...powerful Jumbo squad is Duncan Blanchard, former Harvard V-12 man, now a transfer at Tufts. Holder of the collegiate record for the 3.7 mile handicap course, Blanchard will be favored to take first place tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON FACES TUFTS RUNNERS | 9/29/1944 | See Source »

...next Saturday's encounter with Tufts, wartime arch-rival, Mikkola will have the same outfit that notched the opening win from Worcester Tech, 26-31, on September 16. Captain Mark Tuttle, who ran three miles over the rocky Handicap Course in that race after losing his right shoe-spikes, returned to action last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Is Ready For Tufts Contest | 9/26/1944 | See Source »

Competing under perfect racing conditions, Jaako Mikkola's Crimson harriers opened the 1944 season Saturday by taking the measure of a well-balanced Worcester Tech outfit, over the 3.7 mile University Handicap course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON HARRIERS BEAT WORCESTER TECH, 26-31 | 9/19/1944 | See Source »

Trapshooting tradition was upheld last week at Vandalia, Ohio. In 45 years there have been no repeat winners of the national amateur championship, no women victors. The Grand American Handicap* was captured by Leslie Jepsen, a sparse-haired, thin, nervous electrician from Dwight, Ill. He toed the mark at 19 yards with a pump gun borrowed from a neighbor at home (he broke his own two years ago) and hit 97 clay birds out of 100. His prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Vandalia | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...Grand American presents 100 targets to 12-gauge guns at distances of between 16 and 25 yards-the handicap being set by the Amateur Trapshooting Association with the help of 48 state trapshooting organizations. The Grand American's winner is regarded as U.S. champion. * The North American presents 200 targets to 12-gauge guns at 16 yards. ** The National Doubles presents 100 targets (two birds simultaneously) to 12-gauge guns at 16 yards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Vandalia | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

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