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Sizzling Statistics. This week the Gallup Poll had some sizzling statistics to report. After an unprecedented series of ups & downs, President Harry Truman's political popularity was within 4% of his alltime low. As of last week, only 36% of U.S. voters still thought the President was doing a good...
...Penn Relays hammer throw at about 171 feet. He may scare Sam Felton into hitting 180 feet today. Felton broke the Harvard record two weeks ago with a shot of 175 feet, 2 inches. This competition, plus the Kimball versus Pat McCormick duel in the 120 high and 220 low hurdles should provide the most spectator interest this afternoon...
...team is optimistic over the impending match, and, according to Savidge, has a right to be so. Scores in the low seventies and three successive wins against some of New England's stiffest competition are a team record that is likely to inspire a little confidence and hope in any member of the squad--even without Rickenbacker...
...track, Captain Frank Gurley won the mile and the 880 easily and Pat McCormick had no trouble in the 120-high and 220-low hurdles. The sprinters did poorly, picking up only fourths in the 100 and 220, but the explanation is that they were running against some very rapid men, as the winning times indicate. Stroke Charlie Rimmer pushed the stroke up to 38 with a half-mile left, but could not force the Crimson shell into the two-way struggle between the leaders, who widened the distance to a length and a quarter over Harvard before Princeton squeaked...
...low hurdles--Won by McCormick (H); 2, Braithwaite (BU); 3, Coville (H); 4, Eagan (HC). Time...