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...Sprinter Doug Pirnie was again Harvard's chief tape-breaker, winning the 220 in 22 seconds flat, his best time of the season; tieing Crusader Charlie Gillis in the century sprint with a 10.1 performance; and anchoring a victorious sprint relay which covered the 440-yards in 43.2. To top off this sparkling job, Pirnie copped a second in the broad jump with a leap less than three inches short of Dave Ives' winning 21 feet 9 3/8 inches. Ives reciprocated by doing the hundred in 10.2 and racing number two in the sprint relay...
Harvard is shaky in the distance runs. Both Dan Hamilton and Frank McKechnie are fifty-second men for the 440 but not yet consistent winners. Tom Watkins, a converted sprinter, and Sophomores Ted Graves and Larry Corbett, who have broken fifty-three seconds are the other men in the quarter. In the half-mile Bill Young and Rolle Campbell, out of school last year but having done 1:56 two years ago, are most promising. Fred Phinney and Paul Cook, at present incapacitated with a bad leg, lead the supporting cast...
...beaten Ulenmen, long known around the Holyoke Street baths as "The Pro" definitely earned his old handle and as an added attraction established himself among the nation's top trio of collegiate middle distance swimmers as a result of his two upset victories last week over Yale's great sprinter, Howie Johnson...
...classiest small college swimming teams of recent years and may push the Ulenmen down to the final relay. They have suffered only one defeat thus far, a neck and neck affair at the hands of Dartmouth early in the season before the Indians lost Liskow, their star sprinter...
Students of bloodlines have long wailed that the U. S. thoroughbred is degenerating into a flashy sprinter. To please these students Washington Park is inaugurating a series of five distance races from 1½ to 4 miles...