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...Mortimer of Northeastern was the first winner in Saturday's finals, with a facility mile record of 4:04.8, followed less than a second later by Buddy Bostick of Brandeis. Huskie runner Bruce Bickford, the winner of the mile event in the meet held here with Northeastern two weeks ago, finished third, edging out Bill Gajewski of B.C. by just a tenth of a second. Thad McNulty of Harvard took fifth...
Sheehan, too, is a runner who has dramatically improved this year. Hampered by injuries last season, he has come on to run more than 20 seconds below his previous best in the two-mile, 9:20. Coach Stowell credits the new track and said, "It's enabled Ed to run the workouts necessary. At Briggs, we always had to worry about getting hurt...
...running events, Northeastern applied the squeeze. Senior Frank Mortimer began the slaughter by winning the 440 with a time of 49.8. Then All-American runner Mark Lech turned on his jets to outdistance Crimson runners Brian McAndrews and Dave Frim, setting an institutional record and posting a record New England best-performance mark with a 1:10.16 finish...
Jogger's kidney usually cures itself within 48 hours, but whether it can lead to more permanent kidney damage remains to be determined. David Jeffrey Fletcher, a second-year medical student at Chicago's Rush Medical College, is setting up a five-year study of long-distance runners to find the answer to this question. Until he does, says Researcher Gilbert Gleim of the Institute of Sports Medicine at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. fitness freaks should keep on running or jogging. The known benefits of such exercise, he says, far outweigh any known disadvantages...
Northeastern is flexible. Ay, there's the rub. With the kind of versatility the Huskie runners show, it's anybody's guess where these people are going to pop up on Saturday. There's Mark Lech, the All-American runner who placed fourth in a middle-distance event in last year's Nationals. Lech can run well in any middle distance event and usually has--especially in the half-mile and the 600 yard run. Then there's the distance team of Flora-Bickford-Flora, which has been busy quashing Crimson hopes for a first place victory in the GBCs...