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...Dartmouth broke the tape in their respective qualifying heats. The Crimson star came out of the ruck on the home stretch to win handily in 1 minute 56 7-10 seconds just ahead of the fast coming Sober of City College of New York, and Boyden, Golden Bear half miler. In the second race, the Tech leader, Leness, won in slightly better time over McCloskey of Boston College and Richardson of Stanford. The Cardinal flash who is expected to fight it cut with Watters for the supremacy this afternoon saved himself and finished third without difficulty. In the third trial...
This same theory applies to a good quarter-miler. With a bit of speed work towards the end of training, the coach invariably finds his man able to give a good account of himself. Both Allen Woodring and Charles Reidpath won I. C. A. A. A. A. 220 titles while concentrating on preparations for the quartermile...
...distance on a specially prepared course on the old Guttenberg Race Track some 25 years ago. Long was a marvelous runner, and his record of 47 4-5 around a handicap field at Travers Island subsequently proved, to my way, of thinking, that he was the second best quarter miler on record, in as much as Meredith's 47 2-5 at Cambridge in 1916 was run under about similar conditions...
...coach at Cornell. Moakley, who has trained some of the leading Intercollegiate distance men of the last 20 years and who was on the coaching staff of the last Olympic team, reviews the records of past stars and discusses the chances W. L. Tibbetts '26, Harvard's crack two-miler has of bettering them in this year's I. C. A. A. A. A. meet...
...since the triangular meet with Dartmouth and Cornell last winter on account of an operation for appendicitis, and it is not sure whether he will be able to compete or not. Another man whose entrance in the actual competition is doubtful is R. G. Luttman '28, star Crimson two-miler. He sprained his ankle on Tuesday and has not fully recovered...