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Amid the deafening roar of the overflow crowd at Princeton's Dillon Pool, Harvard senior Steve Baird edged the Tigers' champion sprinter Fred Test to win the 400 yard free relay and give the Crimson a 62-51 victory on Saturday...
WIDE RECEIVERS: Larry Burton, Purdue, 6 ft. 1 in., 188 lbs. An Olympic sprinter who has been clocked at 9.3 in the 100-yd. dash and has all the moves of a top receiver. At Purdue he averaged better than 18 yds. per catch...
...home run, a suicide squeeze bunt and a throwing error by the Dodgers. Game No. 2 gave the Dodgers a chance to recover, and Los Angeles Rightfielder Joe Ferguson provided the power with a two-run homer. When Finley tried to fight back with Herb Washington, the inexperienced sprinter whom he hired this year as unofficial designated runner, Dodger Relief Ace Mike Marshall easily picked Washington off first base...
...David (code-named "Beehive"), the Nixons occupied the presidential suite on the sixth floor, which was Kissinger's quarters when he was flying his diplomatic shuttle between Jerusalem and Damascus. This time the Secretary was relegated to a lower floor. Everything was as ready for Nixon as a sprinter on his blocks. Even the Beehive's chef was well briefed: he had been advised of the President's predilection for cottage cheese...
...city officials over his stadium lease, Finley moved his show to Oakland in 1968, quickly bought the California Seals hockey team and, in 1972, basketball's Memphis Tams. But baseball remained his first priority. Finley promoted the designated-hitter experiment in the American League. This year he hired Sprinter Herb Washington to serve as a kind of designated runner for the A's. In an era of absentee ownership, General Manager Finley exercises more day-to-day control over his empire than does any of his major-league rivals. "In reality," he says, "you could...