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...thinclads entered the competiton without middle-distance men Ryan Lamppa and Bob Higgens. both sidelined with injuries. The depleted forces were further thinned when Marc Chapus, Harvard's fastest quarter-miler, pulled up during his event with a muscle cramp, leaving David Frim as the lone trackster to qualify for this afternoon's finals...
Beyond him, the outlook for hurdlers in bleak--at least for now. Lance Miler and freshman Kim Stephens are both suffering from injuries and will not compete today. That leaves Don Kilburn and freshman James Johnson, neither of whom have competed before. "The hurdles may be good and solid later," McCurdy says, "but right now it's Johnson and a prayer...
John Murphy, freshman Buck Logan, captain Thad McNulty and Noel Scidmore rounded out the Harvard scorers, placing fourth, ninth, tenth and thirteenth respectively. Adam Dixon, a half-miler trying out cross country for the first time this season, took fourteenth...
Thus, Parker's plan for the four-miler. Let Yale pull out ahead, keep them within range, grind back into the lead in the last mile. Parker, as always, had it figured...
...Lilliefor's Total Running (Morrow; $7.95), an examination of the "mental and spiritual side of running" that contains such lines as "running as spiritualism is the lifting from your shoulders of an insoluble puzzle." On the Run, by Marty Liquori and Skip Myslenski (Morrow; $9.95), shows the great miler and distance runner to be as dedicated and self-critical as every top athlete must be. But Liquori is more instructive on television. Running Back, by Steve Heidenreich and Dave Dorr (Hawthorn; $11.95), is nondramatic; it describes how Heidenreich slogged his way back to health after an auto accident...