Word: runners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take the 400 metre race, America will have to produce runners capable of beating such star performers as Buchner and Peltzer of Germany and Lowe of England. Coach Farrell said. All three have done at least 49 seconds in the event and with Martin of Switzerland and Engdohl of Sweden, present a lineup with great possibilities. America however, is fortified with about ten men of nearly equal merit, but probably led by Alderman of Michigan Agrucltural College. Several of the other men who have beaten 49 seconds for the 440 yard distance, he pointed out, are Barbuti of Syracuse, Swope...
Michard is a professional bicycle sprinter, Olympic winner in 1924. René Lacoste, who defeated "Big Bill" Tilden and "Little Bill" Johnston to take the Davis Cup away from English speaking players for the first time in history, won second place. Seraphin Martin, middle-distance runner, Spider Pladner, bantamweight fisticuffer, ran third, fourth. Henri Cochet, famed Davis Cup tennis player, stood miserably among the last; Jean Borotra, brilliant, bounding member of the Cup team, scored no votes...
...fencing squad has been chosen by Coach J. L. Danguy, following an elimination tournament among all Freshmen taking the sport. A fencing glove has been presented by Coach Danguy to S. S. Morrill '31 for the best fencing form in the meet. H. B. Wesselman '31 was the runner up for the trophy award...
Matz, now the Freshman singles handball champion, gained the final round of the tournament by his victory over A. L. Kowarsky '31 of Standish Hall, and Vonckx, the runner-up for the championship, entered the match after defeating E. B. Cohen '31, representing Gore Hall...
Down the final stretch the chest of the sturdy Penn runner showed a yard and then two yards, ahead. The Red and Blue broke the worsted a yard and a half before the Crimson-jerseyed athete. The time of 1 minute, 53 seconds, set a new intercollegiate mark. Bingham's time, 1-5 of a second slower, still stands as the Harvard record...