Word: pete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pete" Bostwick had scandalized some of polo's elders 13 years ago by putting on 50? polo matches complete with soda pop. Now he dipped into his Standard Oil millions and came up with a $5,000 purse for a handicap tournament-the first cash prize ever offered in polo. His ambition is to convert polo into a mass-appeal sport in which a man can make a living from his winnings...
Trainer Kimmy Cox was in front of Dillion Field House calling calisthenie signals, but only the straining figures of Tom Sullivan, Nicholas Athens, Pete Leavitt, and a bespectacled youth with a pea-shooter seemed to be manifesting any interest...
...Crimson point winners came through pretty much as Coach Mikkola had expected. Captain Wes Flint took thirds in both hurdles, Freshman Don Trimble won the javelin throw, Pete Harwood annexed the pole vault title, Bill Jackson was fifth in the shot, and Jack Fisher and Sam Felton placed two-three in the hammer...
...these records, which have been eluding their grasp all spring, the graduating Seniors will have to improve as follows over their best efforts so far this season: Jack Fisher (hammer)--one foot; Captain Wes Flint (hurdles)--2/10 seconds in the 220 lows, 1/10 second in the 120 highs; Pete Harwood (pole vault)--5 3/4 inches; Bill Jackson (shot)--7 1/2 inches; Ted Withington (440)--one second...
This group, which hopes to pick up where it left off last Saturday at the Nonagonals, includes Harvard's 1-2 punch in the 16-pound hammer throw, Jack Fisher and Sam Felton; Captain Wes Flint in the high and low hurdles; Freshman javelin find, Don Trimble; pole vaulters Pete Harwood and Bill Lawrence; high jumper Gene Harrigan; Bill Jackson, who will put the shot and double in the discuss with Felton; Captain-elect Frank Gurley in the mile; and Ted Withington, whose 49-second anchor leg last Saturday convinced Jaakko that he was capable of meeting IC4A 440 competition...