Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record breaker appeared particularly interested when Watters, Harvard's star half-miler was running his heat in the 880-yards race. Ever since Watters ran the distance in the dual meet with Princeton three weeks ago in 1.55 1-5, he has been seriously considered as a possible intercollegiate champion for that event. Yesterday, in the trial heat, Watters time was 1.55 2-10, three seconds slower than Meredith's record mark, but in the competition of today's battle for the half-mile championship, it is generally believed that he will cut his time down to within a fraction...
...season, with victories few and far between, but the team has been improving of late and the Crimson cannot afford to rate the visitors too lightly. Yale has bested Amherst 6 to 1, Princeton has pounded out a 7 to 0 white wash, and the Army and Virginia both ran their scores into the double figures in beating the team from Western Massachusetts. To offset these reverses, there are no more impressive victories than a 4 to 0 shutout of Tufts and a 14 to 4 batfest at the expense of Trinity...
Chief interest centered around the match between Captain Pfaffmana and Kunkel. The latter, after dropping the first set, 6-2, staged a come-back, and ran the match out in the final sets, 6-4, 7-5. Captain Pfaffmann was not in best form, and he showed a fatal tendency to drive the ball out, and served doubles once on twice in the psychological turning points in the match...
Dorothy Smith, also of Chicago, bedecked in betwitching bloomers, pattered the ground with graceful feet 60 whole yards in 7.7 seconds, bettering her previous mark by point three seconds. She also ran 70 yards in 8.8 seconds and thus tied a world's record...
Cummings also had his difficulties. Like Ingraham, he dropped the first set to his opponent, but becoming accustomed to Paton's style of play, he ran the last two sets out in quick succession...