Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been expected beforehand that Mike Midler and Dave Eckel of Cornell, and the Crimson's Pete Reider would finish among the top five runners. Harvard's hopes for victory were thought to depend on its placing at least three men ahead of the third Cornell finisher...
...main Crimson weakness today, as usual, will be in the scrum, which is sadly short of both height and weight. The absence of Mike Nightingale and Jim Cooper in the exam room leaves seniors Geoff Locke and Bill Gill as the only tall line-out forwards, and there is a distinct lack of 200-pounders...
...varsity's stiffest opposition should come from Cornell, Yale, and Army. Cornell has lost only to the Elis--and this on a day when its two best runners, Mike Midler and Dave Eckel, were stricken with flu. The Crimson, of course, beat Yale last week, but the meet was very close, and might well have gone the other...
...showed signs of speed, and they took their stable to the races. To eke out their small winnings. Pat, the smaller of the two (he carries a solid 160 lbs. on a 5-ft.-11-in. frame), peeled off poundage and learned the rough art of the jumping jockey. Mike sharpened his skills as trainer. Both of them did so well that last season Pat was the country's leading steeplechase jock, and Mike was chosen by Mrs. Ogden Phipps to take over from her retiring trainer, Pete Bostwick...
Among other horses, the Phipps stable had Neji. But the top jumper of 1955 had pulled up lame after the Midsummer Hurdle Handicap of 1956 and seemed to be through with racing. It took all Mike's talents to make the horse whole. This year his perseverance, combined with Paddy's skill in the jockey's irons, has paid off handsomely. Neji, who made his first start last month, is already steeplechase horse of the year. Barring injury, the big chestnut has a long career ahead in which to build on his earnings...