Word: segal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hello, Pete," joshed manager Skip Elsas, as Segal emerged, breathless, from the clubhouse, typing up his sweat pants...
There was only a minute or two before the start and Segal (alias Reider) had just time to prance through a warm-up in front of the dumbfounded opposition. Jose Iglesias, the Columbia captain and a fine runner in his own right, eyed the impostor suspiciously. He had run against Reider before ... didn't remember him quite this way ... but then ... well, one's memory is not infallible...
...Segal took his place on the line, shook hands with Iglesias, wished him "good luck," and, when the gun sounded, lit out at record pace. A hundred yards, two hundred, three hundred--Segal was well out in front...
Four hundred yards. Segal still led. At this point, a Columbia runner, unable to contain himself any longer, shouted to Iglesias, "Go get him, Jose; he's getting away from...
Iglesias stepped up the pace. In a few strides he was past Segal and the game was up. Iglesias went on to win the race by three hundred yards over Crimson captain Dave Norris. Segal beat two Penn runners...