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Dick Williams, a pole vaulter on the varsity track team, won the University Handicap race along the Charles yesterday afternoon. Running with a five minute handicap, Williams defeated Phil Robertson, a sophomore hurdler, by about five yards...
...race was begun amid the usual squabbles over the size of the handicaps. Dave Rosenthal, a varsity hurdler, was awarded the biggest handicap, seven minutes over the "scratch" runners and at least two minutes over all others...
...addition, they had a brute of a man, M. C. Nokes, who was heavily-favored to win the hammer. However, their best hurdler, George Trowbridge, a Rhodes Scholar from Princeton, was felled by an acute attack of appendicitis...
Landau is another. Not only did he prove the mainstay in the dash, but he also proved outstanding in the hurdles, a previously foreign and abhorrent event, when ace Joel Cohen reinjured his foot. The neophyte hurdler actually broke the indoor record in the Yale meet...
...injury. French Anderson and Mike Robertson, counted on for two places in the 600 are injured, as is Dave Gately, the leading broad jumper. Both pole vaulters, Barrett Churchill and Barnes Keller are ailing, but both will complete. Dick will not run in the two-mile relay, and hurdler Joel Cohen is still hampered by his bad foot...