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...first chance that Jaako Mikkola, track mentor, will have to size up his charges in toto will be the intramural meet scheduled for Thursday. For the first time in the long record of intramural meets, prises will be awarded in four field and four running events. The field events will be high jump, pole vault, hammer, and discus; the running events the 100, 300, 600 yard, and a distance race between two of the Charles River bridges...
...result of time trials held yesterday afternoon, Coach Jaako Mikkola has announced his entries for the Princeton-Army-Harvard track meet at West Point on Saturday...
...improving. Frank Coolidge seems to hold the edge here, but Fred Carr and Joe Moore are coming, and may press him later. In the hurdle events, Wes Flint, another Noble and Greenough graduate, has a strangle hold on the top position. He is very fast and has good form; Jaako calls him "very good." Following him over the timber are two beginners, Al Houghton and George Earley. Houghton is pretty fair, but Earley is stiff, and must loosen up. In the low hurdles, Ted Withingham, Exeter alumnus, who will run the low hurdles, is very good, but has lots...
Best sign from the Crimson point of view was the Varsity sweep of the 50-yard dash, with Moo Young, Tom Goethals, and Bill Bingham crossing the line in that order. Bill Trainor and Eli Berman, two other dash men on whom Coach Jaako Mikkola will have to rely to fill in for Second Lieutenant Doug Pirnie, did not take part in the meet...
Captain Bob Houghton, whom Jaako calls "an inspiring leader," twisted his ankle in a touch-football game, and is out for the next two weeks at least. One of the top men in the distances, Fred Phinney, next year's cross-country captain, will undergo a dental operation Thursday that will deprive him of wisdom tooth, and Jaako of his services for a couple of weeks...