Word: runner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these led to a close call at second base, which went against the visitors. This provoked a heated protest from the always-colorful B.U. coach, Harry Cleverly. After asking the umpire repeatedly "why are you choking up?" Cleverly strode to the press row and promised the reporters "If the runner wasn't out by a country mile, I'll eat the damn ball." Fortunately, however, Harry managed to keep his appetite under control...
Crimson 880 man Art Cahn ran the best race of his life, a 1:53.4, but he bowed to Yale's Tommy Carroll, who set a meet record with 1:52.0. Besides Landau, the only other Crimson runner to take a first was Benjamin, with a meet record of 9:12.0. in the two mile. The Yale mile relay quartet racked up still another ecord with a 3:16.6 performance in the mile relay...
...fifth, the Crimson got Johnson an insurance run. Bob Forbush walked and, like Boulris the inning before, managed to steal second. After Mouse Kasarjian flied out harmlessly Forbush was able to take third as Johnson rolled to the first baseman. George Harrington then brought the runner home with a timely single to right...
...Burly Mike Souchak, onetime Duke University end, fired a brilliant 6-under-par 66 in the first round, kept the pressure on, posted a two-stroke victory in the $46,620 Tournament of Champions at Las Vegas, Nev. Runner-up: Masters Champion Art Wall Jr., who faded on the final nine holes...
Yesterday the first steps of this plan were consistently carried out, but the single which would score a runner never came...