Word: relays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Australia entertainment relay was started by a 35-year-old Florida showman named Lee Gordon. He found that most of the entertainers touring Australia were British or else molto serioso musicians. But he also found that most of the local films and records were made in the U.S., decided that Australia was hungry for American entertainers. By booking big names into big boxing stadiums, he could afford to pay expensive air fares and still show a profit...
...varsity mile relay team will face its stiffest competition of the season tonight when Captain Bob Rittenberg, Dick Wharton, Renny Little, and Dave Alpers will meet the nation's best quarter-milers in the Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden...
...condition of anchor-man Dave Alpers. Alpers, who has been plagued with a back injury during most of the season, will be running with the added handicap of a stubborn cold. If Alpers can still turn in times such as the 48.4 effort which sealed last year's record relay, the team may well outdistance its rivals, and such nationally recognized stars as Villanova's speedster Charlie Jankins...
Peter Churchill, Poindexter, and Dane also skied in the relay which was won for the Finnish Ski Club of New York by Anchorman Tauno Pulkinen in 38:46. Pulkinen won a last lap duel with Dick Osgood of the University of New Hampshire...
...only team action of the weekend saw a Crimson entry finish 13th in a field of 14 at the Eastern Cross Country Relay Championship, Saturday. Sten Lium turned in the varsity's best leg, 47 minutes for the six-mile...