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...followed by the Winter Track Carnival on Monday, March 2. Any student in the University, including the Graduate Schools, is eligible to compete. A liberal handicap will be given all entrants not on the team in every meet except the high hurdles. University track men will start from scratch in all events...
...Charles L. Kilpatrick 1000 yards handicap, A. H. O'Neill '28, starting from scratch placed second to Swinburne of Georgetown to whom he conceded 20 yards. Hobart Betts of Princeton, the other scratch man was easily beaten by O'Neill
Haggerty, running from scratch in the 600, won his heat easily, but in the finals, after a game attempt, was squeezed out of a place by men with large handicaps. E. T. Wakefield '27 with 16 yards placed third...
Haggerty should finish near the front of the handicap 600, provided the number of entries is not too great. When fifteen or twenty men try to run on a track eight feet wide with a turn every twenty-five yards, the men at scratch are faced not only with gaining distance but with fighting their way past greatly congested traffic...
Before Nurmi's race, a rival Finn, Willie Ritola, started from scratch, padded five long miles, four times tapped the field of wearying runners, lowered by eight seconds the world's indoor record. Ritola's time...