Word: runners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eighty men on the University track squad will be present tonight at the Knights of Columbus track meet to open the longest winter season that has ever been scheduled for the University. The runners will toe the line at 7.15 o'clock tonight in Mechanics Hall A check-up of the number of men entered in the event shows that at least 379 have filed banks to compete. J. L. Reid '29 will run in the feature mile race for the Curley Trophy against Lloyd Hahn of the Boston Athletic Association who is the leading middle distance runner in America...
...some interest to those who follow the sporting items in TIME to know that a remarkable long distance runner has recently arrived in London from South Africa and it will not be amiss to keep tab on English dailies and weeklies till the end of the present month. The name of the runner is Arthur F. Newton, who last July shattered the world's record for 100 miles by covering that distance in 14 hrs. and 43 minutes. . . . Newton was educated at Bedford and left England 21 years ago to farm in Rhodesia, South Africa when only a youth...
...last week, Wall Street men perused with interest the news that 36 year-old Robert Livingston Clarkson had been elected president of the second largest U. S. national bank, the Chase National,* in Manhattan. He had, they learned with no surprise, begun his financial career by functioning as a runner for $4 weekly. Furnished by newssheets only with this familiar detail, some wondered what filled in the enormous gap; a gap that for many of them had been a canyon never to be crossed...
...metres, Beddarl of France, rated at 32.18 for the same distance, and Matilainen of Finland, the European contenders seem to have clinched most of the places in this event. Against this array of consistent performers America will probably send Osif, the former Haskell Indian School runner, Henigan of the Boston Athletic Association, and Richardson of the University of Maine. In the last I. C. A. A. A. A. cross-country race, Richardson took second place, following Cook of Pennsylvania State College and leading Reid of Harvard...
Although he had never done any cross-country running before coming under the tutelage of Coach E. L. Farrell in his sophomore year, Reid has been the first Harvard runner over the line in the two Intercolleglate meets in which he has run. In the race with Yale this fall he bettered the course record set by Captain W. L. Tibbets '26 in 1925, by 28 1-5 seconds, finishing in the total elapsed time of 27 minutes, 41 3-5 seconds...