Word: pits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the fuel shortage was so grim that gasoline had to be used as a substitute for charcoal. Schoolchildren were sent into the mountains to cut wood and carbonate it for charcoal. A great scandal broke out when two 15-year-olds fell to their death in a charring pit...
Steve Madey will pit his pole vaulting e'lan against Yale's Tommy Lussen for the second time this season, and the chances are that the little boy blue will be stiffer competition than he was in the Quad Meet. Don Donahue will probably meet a more self possessed Jay Shields today than the one who spilled three hurdles running for Yale in the Gardon...
...this difference in arenas that caused the Crimson to come a cropper last Saturday, and Major Sargent, coach of the pole team for the past three years, is confident that on the home floor the Harvard team will give a different account of itself. The lineup Saturday will probably pit Gay Dillingham, Winny White, and either Tommy Higginson or Jack Lewis against Alan Corey, Billy Chisholm, and Dava Wilhelm. As a question of individual supremacy between Dillingham and Corey the match should be interesting enough in itself...
...sprint will be Bob Owen and Jim Rothschild, who was a member of the combined Yale-Harvard team which met Oxford and Cambridge. In the 880 Yale will probably pit Dick Morse, who placed fifth in the IC4A outdoor meet last spring, and Jim Ord, another member of the Yale-Harvard European team. In the mile Jack Lohmann appears to be a certain starter while Jack Kaynor will liandle the two mile assignment. Their running mates appear uncertain...
Coach Peterson's Yardlings are also undefeated for their meet with Andover here at 4 o'clock. One of the feature races of the day will pit backstroker Shand of the Blue against Bill Drucker of Harvard. Captain Bus Curwen, Sandy Houston, Shaw McCutcheon, and Frank Webster should be able to pick up enough points to lead the Crimson cubs to victory...