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When bands are playing, the air is crisp, and thousands crowd into the stadium on a Saturday afternoon, a hundred-odd cross country harriers got many an unappreciated shin-splint pounding the turf along the Charles or in the grueling four-mile course at Franklin Park. Always an inconspicuous sport amidst the noise of the football season, and until yesterday the World Series, the Crimson harrier aggregation, nevertheless, within a short two-week practice period, managed to take second in the four-way meet last Friday, and promises to attract some attention in the sports arena this fall...
...than one or two record-breaking champions. This may be illustrated by last Friday's meet, in which M.I.T., the winning team, placed men in the following order: 4-5-6-7-8. The sum of these numbers is 30--Tech's score for the meet. The first Crimson harrier to cross the line was in ninth place and he was followed by his teammates in the 10-14-17-22 slots which added up makes 72, enough to beat Tufts by two points. In other words, low score wins and every team is scored by its leading five...
...England two mile champ Duncan Blanchard, a well-balanced Jumbo harrier team defeated the Crimson, 23 to 33, Saturday, over the local 3.7 mile riverbank course. Jumping off to an early lead, Blanchard outdistanced his field and coasted home in the winning time of 18:49.2 for a new collegiate handicap course record...
Heavy lab periods and examinations have kept some of the squad members from working out regularly at 4:45 o'clock, and although practice sessions have been strenuous, the team has not yet rounded into the high-powered outfit that characterized peacetime Crimson harrier teams...
...mile cross country run which winds up the 1944 Guadalcanal Decathlon tomorrow afternoon will probably decide which men will lead the Crimson harrier team in next month's races. The race tomorrow will start promptly at 2:45 o'clock and all entrants should report at Dillon Field House by 2:15 o'clock...