Word: runners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cross country coach Bill McCurdy received the crowning blow yesterday when Dyke Benjamin, his number two runner, was sent to bed with an acute case of poison...
Moving west to Milwaukee, Smith, Coyle & Co. got a workout that all but wore out their camera swivels. Through the zoom lens of an extra camera perched in a clump of pine trees behind center field, the TV audience could watch a pitcher, batter, catcher and a runner on second in one glance; sometimes the camera almost stole the catchers' signals. In the third game, 17 hits squirted about the landscape while the Yankees belittled the Braves, 12-3. The ten innings of the fourth game were a drill in aerial photography as four crucial home runs traveled...
Pete Reider led the parade, followed by Dyke Benjamin, Willie Thompson, Ed Martin, Mac Brown, French Anderson, Capt. Dave Norris, Dave Donaldson, and Wes Hildreth. George Hillier of B.U., a strong runner in the past, could do no better than tenth yesterday...
...freshman race produced a meet record by Harold Hatch of B.U. which overshadowed solid performances by several of the Crimson runners. Hatch covered the 2.8 mile distance in 14:21, six seconds under the record set by Johnny Kelley seven years ago. Kelley has since become the leading distance runner in this country...
...Then there's John Barrett from Somerville, the smallest runner we've had since Dave MacLean. If somebody doesn't make a mistake and step on him, he'll do very well...