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Engaged. Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley, 23, famed hurdler, member of the British Olympic track team this year, descendant of the first Baron Burghley, Queen Elizabeth's Secretary of State; to Lady Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott, sportswoman, inheritor of a 400-year-old title; of London...
Hanover, N. H., February 23.-- E. M. Wells, captain and star hurdler of the Dartmouth track team, will probably not be able to compete in the Triangular track meet between Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell in the Arena Saturday night. Wells is at present in the hospital suffering from an injury to his instep which he received as a result of a fall in the New York Athletic Club Games Monday evening. Hot compresses are being constantly applied in an effort to reduce the swelling, which persists despite all treatment...
...changes in the rulings had to do with the hurdle events. The point was made at the convention that a runner who knocks down most of his hurdles suffered a sufficient handicap for not clearing them cleanly, so it was voted to do away with the rule disqualifying a hurdler for upsetting the barriers. A false start in a hurdle event has hither to been penalized by setting the runner back a yard. It was decided, however, that this penalty was too sever, and the rules were amended to allow a first false break go unpenalized, while a second would...
Once again, Montgomery Wells, stellar Dartmouth hurdler, flashed through in five and four fifths seconds to equal his own world's record for the event. In second place, Ballantyne of the University ran a fine race but was distanced...
Coach E. L. Farrell will send only seven men to New York today to compete in the New York Athletic Club Games tonight. Two sprinters, a hurdler, and the one mile relay team will make the trip...