Word: sprint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they plodded up, Komonen gaining a few as they coasted down the other side. At Boston College Komonen pulled ahead. He had trained for the race by running 15 mi. a day on snowshoes. At Coolidge Corner, coming into Boston, his feet were still light and he began to sprint between the crowds roped off along the sidewalks. He was alone running down Commonwealth Avenue. He turned into Exeter Street as lightly as though he were trotting to catch a street car, whisked across the finish where he was timed at 2 hr., 32 min., 53 sec. He was sitting...
...Freshman year he received his numerals as a member of the swimming team, and last year won a minor "H". Beside competing in the sprint this year, he was a member of the relay team which took many first places...
...race really started on the sixth when Cunningham pushed up into the lead. Venzke and then Bonthron followed him. With two laps to go, Venzke caught up with Cunningham and passed him. Half a lap before the end of the race, Cunningham repassed Venzke. Bonthron started his sprint coming around the last turn. He passed Venzke on the outside and started down the straightaway toward the tape, four yards behind Cunningham. Thirty yards from the tape, the gap began to melt. The finish duplicated the finish of the first race, except that the judges decided that this time not Bonthron...
Closest event of the meet was the fifty in which George Scott came through to beat Eugene Jennings, the Lion sprint flash, by a matter of inches. Another close race was between Ed Devereux and Tom Wright, in the furlong, which the latter finally won by only a few feet. In the quarter-mile, however, the Columbia swimmer had an easy time...
...most severe test so far this season, the Varsity swimming team will encounter a brilliant Columbia out-fit tonight at 8.15 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building Pool. In Eugene Jennings, the visitors bring with them one of the fastest men in the East in the two sprint events, while Captain Thomas Wright has turned in remarkable times for the two distance swims. With this competition the Harvard team will undoubtedly be pushed to the limit to keep its record of victories intact...