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...third and fourth spots, Harvard's Clive Kileff and Richie Friedman will face Les Back and Lee Rewis. Kileff was sidelined for a week and a half following the Boston Marathon, but should be in good health today for Buck, the number one player on Princeton's freshman team last year and a fantastic athlete. The steady Friedman should have a good chance...
...enduring paradox of the Boston Marathon is that the doctors who give each entrant a physical exam before the race never bother to check his head. Ask a competitor what makes him run and he will tell you: "It feels so good when I stop." It must-after 26 mi. 385 yds. of loping up and down hills, fighting leg cramps and nausea, cultivating blisters, dodging angry dogs and straining to hold out till the next comfort station. Such stoicism is plainly un-American-which explains why a foreigner has won every Patriot's Day marathon in almost...
...there was an understatement. Roberta crossed the finish line in 3 hr. 21 min. 2 sec.-good enough to place 124th out of an otherwise all-male field of 416. Will Cloney, director of the marathon, refused even to admit that she had competed at all: "I know of no girl who ran in the Boston Marathon," he insisted. "She couldn't enter. I do know of a girl who is supposed to have run the same roads as the marathon route today. But that's not the same." No? Roberta is planning to run again next year...
Captain Dave Benjamin, in the number one position, won the easiest match of the day over Tom Thornhill, 6-2, 6-0. Moving up to number three to replace Clive Kileff, who has not recovered from the Boston Marathon yet, senior Richie Friedman beat Bill Ewen, 6-3, 6-2. Brian Davis (six) downed Bruce Simon, 6-2, 6-4, for Harvard's third singles...
House meet ended the Radcliffe swimming season, which included the Cliffe's House marathon, April 11-15. endurance meet, North set a new marathon record with a total of 2331 lays...