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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harry Rawstrom, middle distance express, will be the strong point--and just about the only one of the Springfield tank team that meets the Crimson Varsity here this afternoon at 4:00 o'clock. Highlight of the meet should be the race between Rawstrom and Eric Cutler in the quarter-mile...
...Springfield ace who won the Eastern Intercollegiate invitation 440 last March swims the event consistently around five minutes flat. Cutler was under the five minute mark two years ago, but, since he was injured last year, will demonstrate whether or not he has returned to form this afternoon. In the only quarter he has competed in this year, against Greenwood last week, he triumphed in 5:12.5, pressed only by team-mate Ed Hewitt. A swimmer of vast potentiality, he should do well if his arm doesn't bother...
Rawstrom was beaten by Willie Kendall in last year's meet, when the Australian set an American record of 4:46.4 in the Gymnasts' 20-yard bath. Springfield's only meet this year was an unimpressive 49-26 win over Connecticut State...
Died. Gaston Bullock Means, 59, notorious national rascal, onetime Secret Service operator and private detective; of a heart attack; in Springfield, Mo., where he had been taken from Leavenworth Penitentiary for an operation. Born in North Carolina, Gaston Means at ten rode around the country eavesdropping on prospective jurors for his attorney-father. He joined the William J. Burns Detective Agency in 1910, then became a German spy, was later tried and acquitted of murdering a client. When the Bureau of Investigation hired him for War fraud investigations, he helped block them instead. Discharged, he supplied the Senate...
Boston University's veteran five invades the Indoor Athletic Building floor and provides the opposition for Wes Fesler's Crimson quintet tonight. The favored Terriers enter the tray seeking their third victory in as many starts, having trounced Springfield and New Hampshire to date...