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...addition of Brown has boosted Hep membership to ten colleges. All ten are endowed with at least one or two talented athletes. Cornell's sophomore Bob Mealey, the national AAU 1000 champion, will probably win his event tomorrow; Penn has a 7:56 two-mile relay team, Olympic hurdler Jeff Kirk, and two-miler Dick Hart; Brown high jumper Dick Phillips generally gets up ever six-six; Al Holland, of Columbia, has done 1:15.3 in the 600; Princeton's Ronald Wittreich will probably press Eli George Wade in the mile; and Dartmouth has the 1948 cross country champion, Stan...
Dispersal for War. Canada has already picked her man to run the show: tall, tight-lipped Sydney David Pierce, 47, onetime Olympic hurdler and Associated Press reporter. During World War II he was stationed in Washington, working on mutual production problems. Since last June, though still nominally Canadian ambassador to Mexico, he has been in Paris watching Canada's interest...
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...