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...Garcelon '95 L., who was a hurdler on the University team in 1893 and 1894, and is now a member of the Track Advisory Committee, spoke next. Mr. Garcelon declared that, although the burden of responsibility rested most heavily on the letter men, track victories depended in almost every case upon the showing of the third-place men. In illustrating his statement that men developed into track winners by hard work as much as by natural ability, Mr. Garcelon told of several men on Crimson track teams who had made their letter after several years of work although when they...
...announced yesterday that the Garcelon hurdle races will this year come on April 26, and on the third, tenth, seventeenth, and twenty-fourth of May. Miniature prize hurdles will be presented by Mr. W. F. Garcelon '95, former hurdler and track coach at the University and now a member of the track advisory committee. As was the case last year there will be ten prizes in all, one to be presented to the winner in both the high and the low hurdles on each of the five days. In the first two races, the high and low hurdles will...
...Fitts tied for first at 5 feet 9 1-4 inches. Both men could have gone higher if necessary, but thought it better to conserve their strength for the other events. Fitts won the 220-yard low hurdles in 22 2-5 seconds, barely beating Chittick, Tech's sprinter-hurdler, at the tape, while Whitney came in a close third...
...stellar performers. The four important men unable to compete this spring on account of studies are Murrey, star half-miler and winner of several 400-yard indoor races this winter; Adams, former interscholastic champion in the mile and captain of the 1923 outfit last spring; Huhn, a promising hurdler; and Croft, star sprinter for the Freshmen last year. W. S. Powers, former Exeter star, and the best pole vaulter on the 1923 team, is ineligible also on account of scholastic standing; while Baker, the hammer-thrower and football player, is unable to compete because of the two-sport rule...
Three star Tiger runners are on the injury list: W. E. Massey, Princeton's most dependable hurdler, cannot take part in this event because of a recent attack of appendicitis, although he may be used in the sprints later in the year; Johnson, a crack man in the half, is laid up with the mumps; while Captain Swede of the Cross Country team is having trouble with an injured foot and may be compelled to stay out of some of the meets this spring...