Word: runners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fields of sport not so close under the public eye the decks are cleared for action. To athletes of the Massachusetts schools who are running on the Stadium track Harvard extends a welcome. A spring runner within the University has their chance for a brief dash down the course of glory. The Freshman baseball team, the tennis, golf, and lacrosse teams are throwing aside their training clothes for the battle. For weeks the drama has been in rehearsal: the audience is ready, and the curtain rises today...
...Granite State batting order, doubled, and MacFarland, a former Exeter player, advanced him to third with a pretty single. Cutts walked the next man on four straight balls, filling the bases, with no outs. Hoyt, however, field out to right field and Jones' throw-in picked a runner off second, making two out. Shea grounded out to the pitcher. The impending score finally came in the next inning when Hicks was walked, advanced on Dawson's single, and came home on Evans' sacrifice fly to right field...
...that Ellis, Yale's great runner, has a bad knee which will keep him out of competition this spring, because he is one of the best. Another man who would do well if he were right is Wildermuth of Georgetown...
...crazy thing to do. Ray had never run a long race. No middle distance runner has ever been a great marathon runner; it is easier for a man who has never done any running at all to learn long distance pacing than for a sprinter to change his style to the loping, shuffling steps, between a run and a walk, used by marathon racers. Ray didn't try to change his style. He stepped out on his toes, pulling up his knees, as if the finish line were a mile away, and it was clear that he meant...
...that the field was narrowing down the good runners had moved into settled positions. Near the front was Clarence H. De Mar, who had won the race five times. Clarence H. De Mar is 40, and emaciated, but he is the most efficient long distance runner in the U. S. Far behind De Mar plodded Jimmy Henigan who had been running in marathons for eight years but had never finished among the leaders. Before the race he had told a friend that he was going to win or break a blood vessel...