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...Pete Reider, this year's varsity track captain, has run a mile in faster time (4 minutes, 11 seconds) than any other Harvard man, past or present, and has been, for the last two years, one of the most-feared collegiate cross country runners in this part of the country...
...Reider had been fighting a cold for most of the week; and on Friday morning at 8 a.m., when he appeared in South Station to entrain for New York with his team-mates, Coach Bill McCurdy took one look at him, decided he looked too sick to run, and sent him home...
...runners from Columbia and Pennsylvania, appraised of the fact that Reider was not with the Crimson team, nourished new hopes of victory as they went through their warm-up. Then Segal arrived--just in the nick of time...
...look, fellas," said French Anderson, "Reider's made it after all." "Yeah, good to see you, Pete," chorused his team-mates...
There was only a minute or two before the start and Segal (alias Reider) had just time to prance through a warm-up in front of the dumbfounded opposition. Jose Iglesias, the Columbia captain and a fine runner in his own right, eyed the impostor suspiciously. He had run against Reider before ... didn't remember him quite this way ... but then ... well, one's memory is not infallible...