Word: runners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next to the surprise caused by Spencer's failure to lead his heat in the quarter, perhaps the greatest upset provided by yesterday's batting was the elimination of Anderson of Cornell in the shot put. An unheralded Bates runner...
...provide a surprise in the dash predictions. Tuxill was one of the members of the Red and Blue 140 yard relay team which, with Scull running as anchor man, equalled the world's record for this event in the Tenn relays early in May. Payne, another former Olympic runner, is the leading penn prospect in the two mile. He took fourth in Cambridge last year and with Giles is counted on to pick up a few points in the distance grind. The dispute concerning the leading Penn half miler was settled to the satisfaction of track folowers on Saturday...
With the return of Monday accompanied by a cold, dull rain, all the lighter joys of a warm May week-end disappear as completely as the sun itself. Putting aside thoughts of brighter costumed baseball heroes, of a blue clad runner valiantly battling up the back stretch against baffling breeze, and of far off dreams engendered by the atmosphere of the Pops, the Vagabond will again wander forth into the Yard this morning his eye on Harvard Hall, his mind full of history. For without stirring out of this ancient center of Harvard life nor shifting his mind from...
...making every possible effort to assemble as excellent a field as possible to push Wide to a record. Ritola was invited to meet Wide, but the noted Finnish star refused to race the Swedish runner at any distance less than three miles. Theobald, a distance man who achieved an excellent reputation in his races for Columbia last year, is another star under consideration. It is reported that Cox, a sophomore at Penn State whose brilliant record during the past few years has gained him a ranking as one of the country's leading runners at distances over one mile...
Last week the bandy legs of James Takpuc, Eskimo runner, trit-trotted over the 100 miles of trail from Beechy Point, Alaska, to Point Barrow. Tired but articulate, he grunted out good news, delivered a written despatch...