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Harvard won the Big Three behind what was then Dough Hardin's strongest effort of the year and three impressive performances from Tim McLoone, Dick Howe and John Heyburn...
...last week's Heptagonals, Hardin won his second straight after a month of injuries, breaking 25 minutes over Van Cortlandt's rigorous five-mile layout. The wiry captain Jim Baker, front runner for the first four miles, finished eighth, Heyburn 18th, McLoone 21st and Howe 22nd as Harvard topped Navy by ten points and Yale...
Fortunately for Harvard neither Yale or Navy had the depth necessary to take the race. Right in back of Heyburn, although well back of the leaders were Harvard's Tim McLoone, "son of Joe," and Dick Howe. But Yale's and Navy's fourth and fifth men were nowhere to be seen...
...Park course. Mccurdy tried to keep track of the top five men--the scorers--from Harvard and the two strongest challengers, Yale and Navy. At the point when Hardin began his move, both the Elis and the Midshipmen had three men ahead of Harvard's third man, the sophomore Heyburn...
...next several seconds, McCurdy held his breath as Yale got three men in and Navy four before the big, improving Heyburn sprinted home. Then when Mcloone and Howe galloped in, the second Heps victory of the Coach's Harvard career was complete...