Word: hurdler
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Jaakke Mikkela's versity track team got a shot in the arm last week when hurdler Pat McCormick (Shown above in action last spring) exchanged his basketball shoes for a pair or spikes. The former Ohio state interscholastic hurdling champion had been working out will Bill Barclay's basketball team but has now decided he can make more progress down in Briggs Cage...
...Naturally, Pat will help us a lot," Mikkola explains. "He's our best hurdler, and he also may be able to do some running for us this winter." McCormick hopes Mikkola is right on the latter count. This afternoon at the Cage, hell compete in a special time trial against quarter milers Chuck Harwood and Dave Gilbert, with the two top men landing places on the varsity mile relay quartet...
Appearance of hurdler Pat McCormick at practice this week strengthened the Crimson in one of its weakest events. Jeff Tootell, veteran shotputter, and Dick Barwise, high-jumper who cleared 6'3" at St. Mark's, will also join the squad before the season hits its height in February, providing further reinforcements in the field events...
...trials with a strained Achilles tendon in his left foot. He was off the team-but still far & away the best U.S. miler. After Dodds, the U.S. sure shots, everybody agreed, were Negro Shot-Putter Chuck Fonville of Michigan, Sprinter Mel Patton of Southern California, and Negro High-Hurdler Harrison Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace. Each, in the past year, has broken a world's record...
...among themselves to set up a scholarship for his firstborn child (if & when he begins to raise a family; he is still a bachelor). Bones's fame has now spread far beyond the campus. A skinny 5 ft. 10 in. tall, he is the greatest high & low hurdler who ever wore spikes. He holds nine world records at different distances, and is the safest bet the U.S. has for the Olympic Games in July...