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...cinder track on Soldiers Field will see heavy duty this weekend, when it will bear the brunt of the annual University handicap track meet and the annual Harvard interscholastic track games, to be run off this afternoon and tomorrow...
...race of the week, also took advantage of smooth waters in the Basin and the first shell, stroked by James de Normandie '29, finished the Henley distance in seven minutes and 19 seconds, defeating by four lengths the second eight, which had started the race with a two length handicap. Coach C. S. Heard '25 intends to change the men in the second boat after the race between the third and fourth crews this afternoon...
Fourteen cups donated by former prominent Harvard athletes will be presented to winners of the various track events to be run off on Soldiers Field in the annual handicap meet next week. As was the case last year, a cup will be given to the winner of each event, most of the cups being given by former Crimson track stars. To the victor in the 100-yard dash goes the Mansfield Cup, donated by W. R. Mansfield '97 of the track team of 1895. Mansfield placed third in the Intercollegiate quarter mile at Berkeley Oval in that year...
Turned back from the Charles River Basin course again by turbulent seas, the two University crews and the Ineligible eight voyaged upstream yesterday afternoon for a two-mile handicap race...
...length and a half to overtake the Ineligibles who had been granted an eight length lead at the start. The second crew, paced by James Lawrence Jr. '29, finished in a dead heat with the first eight after getting away from the mark with a three length handicap...