Word: skerritt
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...varsity won 10 of the 16 events, with Yale winning five and the relay. In the 440, Al Gordon continued his amazing running, fighting off a challenge by Eli Bob Skerritt at the top of the stretch to win by five yards in 49.1 seconds, excellent time in the teeth of the miniature gale whipping around the Soldiers Field oval...
...Gordon will represent the Crimson in a special 500-yard race, in which the entries are restricted to present college undergraduates. Gordon will get stiffer competition from Yale's Bob Skerritt, Basil Ince of Tufts (a scorer in last spring's N.C.A.A. championship), and Rudy Smith of Bates...
With his last semblance of depth gone, Coach Bill McCurdy threw a quartet of Bob Weil, Mike Robertson, Al Gordon, and Dick Wharton against Yale's Jack Halpern, Ed Holohan, Bob Skerritt, and John Slowik, Crimson anchorman Dick Wharton faced the impossible task of making up nearly twenty yards on a runner of Slowik's calibre. Yale won by fifteen yards in 3:19.2, a meet record. The varsity was caught...
Wharton gave the rain-spattered spectators a thrill as he came from dead last at the beginning of the stretch to overtake Eli Bob Skerritt and win the 440 in 48.3. Gordon just missed third, as he ran the distance in 48.8. Halpern outlasted Dodge in the 220 to win by a yard...
...heavy favorite, with Yale placing two-three, and the relay, in which Yale has nearly four seconds better than the varsity, the other events are toss-ups. Best chance for a Crimson win is in the 440, where Wharton has done .8 seconds better than Yale's Bob Skerritt, but either Ed Holohan or John Pendexter should give Yale the third place...