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...destance specialist Brad Bunney almost notched another Crimson second place but was awarded third-place in 800 when the judges ruled that he finished one-hundredth of a second behind Yale's Joe Secley The race started out at an incredibly fast pace with the runners finishing the quarter mile in a 51.2 clip. After such a quick start, the rest of the race was a matter of who could hold...
That hint of danger had not dissuaded the nine Americans, most of them normally sedentary landlubbers, from boarding the sturdy 48-ft. fishing trawler Gabriella in Kingston, Jamaica, and heading into the windswept Caribbean on a stomach-churning 124-mile, 15-hour voyage to U.S.-owned Navassa Island, 30 miles west of Haiti. Unaccountably cheerful through the stormy night, the five-man Jamaican crew and the boat's Kingston owner, Gilbert Thompson ("I couldn't trust the responsibility of this trip to just the crew"), kept the craft on course toward its tiny target: a flat-topped limestone...
Varsity heavyweight coach Harry Parker praised the crew's performance, nothing. "They rowed an excellent race." He said the boat is "pretty much set" for May 16's Eastern Sprints and the grueling four-mile dual with Yale in June...
...most costly injuries occurred at the Penn relays of Friday, when a Harvard team of Bennet Midlo, Brad Bunney. Steve Ezeji-Okoye and Dwayne Jones took second in the Heps Mile Relay behind the squad from Penn. While running the third leg. Ezeji-Okoye--the star freshman hurdler and middle-distance man--pulled his hamstring, putting him out of commission for the weekend...
...competition immensely-loped to a new meet record of 4:24.9 in the 1500-meter run yesterday. Allowing teammates Mary-Jeanne Barrett and Mary Herlihy to set the pace and trade the lead for the first two laps. Beckford moved into her customary lead position with a half-mile to go, then held on to finish ahead of Herlihy, who ran a personal best of 4:27.0. Barrett completed the sweep with a strong 4:28.6 effort...