Word: racing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charges of "job discrimination" were leveled at Hasen's Restaurant by two undergraduates and their friends yesterday afternoon, but John M. Whouley, owner of the Massachusetts Avenue eating place, strenuously denied that he or his manager hired or fired on the basis of race or color...
Dave Gregory, last year's freshman captain, led the Crimson scoring. Crossing the finish line after O'Connell, Gregory beat out Dick Everett, number four in the race and number two for Harvard...
Jaakko Mikkola's defeat - hardened cross-country squad opens the 1949 season against Tufts this afternoon at Franklin Park in Boston. The freshmen, meanwhile, will take on the 1953 Tufts squad is what will be for most of the Crimson runners their first race...
Although most of the men on Mikkola's varsity bettered last fall's times in the recent University Handicaps, assistant coach Doug Pirnie explains that the 1948 race was run in rain and the times were exceptionally low. Tufts, harriers, on the other hand, are pretty much the same men that outsped the Crimson, 27-54 last October in a three-cornered meet that included Holy Cross...
Jethroe's speed is phenomenal. Clay Hopper, manager of the Royals, said that Jethroe is a better base stealer than Jackie Robinson, another Montreal alumnus. Last June, Buzzy Bavasi, the eminent business manager of the Royals, arranged a pre-game foot-race between Jethroe and Ed Conwell, former indoor sprint champion of the United States. In a 75-yard sprint, Jethroe beat Conwell by a comfortable five-yard margin. In a little publicized re-match, however, Conwell emerged a winner...