Word: runners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Darwin's Bird. At the Field Museum in Chicago, the public may now see two specimens of a straight-billed reed "runner similar to those which Charles Darwin saw on his famed cruise in the Beagle in 1831. This species of bird, long believed to be extinct, was shipped from Uruguay by C. C. Sanborn two months ago, along with 3,342 other birds, reptiles, mammals...
...prevented from showing his wares in the 880-yards. Porter, placing third in the half-mile, was chosen as second man in that event to Hogan of Yale, the winner. It was decided to give Smith a chance, and in a special trial race last Friday, the Sophomore runner outfooted J. S. Malich '27, J. C. Peet '28 and Porter to the tape in a 2.01 half-mile...
...nine, off the mound. The Crudaders' two runs were both scored by Harrell, their shortstop, who hit a home run on the first ball pitched in the game, and who drove out a triple in the sixth, on which W. B. Jones '28 made a wild throw, allowing the runner to make the circuit of the bases...
...Stafford broke through a knot of quarrelling players to forfeit the Colgate contest to Harvard, 9 to 0, last Saturday, he stopped a good baseball game. Until that inning F. B. Cutts '28 had held the visiting batters to two hits, and since the second had not allowed a runner to reach first...
...first record of a Harvard distance runner's winning two firsts in the same afternoon, a feat often accomplished by University endurance stars in recent years, is of a meet in 1875 in which President Lowell, then an undergraduate was proclaimed victor in both the mile and half mile. The record of 5 minutes 2 1-2 seconds which he set in the former race withstood the assaults of the Crimson trackmen until a cinder track greatly improved the conditions of running at Harvard...