Word: sprinting
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...warm up in the rain, began to jog toward the starting line on the hill where the wet macadam of Highway 135 reaches toward Boston. The starter's gun barked at the stroke of noon. "Look at those guys," said a newsman astonished by the first scrambling sprint for position. "They've got million-dollar legs and five-cent heads." But by the time the field reached the first check point in Framingham, the tangle had unwound. The nickel noggins had dropped back; a Staten Island, N.Y. schoolteacher named William Welsh was striding easily in the lead. Close...
...Elis, showing excellent early season sprint strength, and, as usual, getting a championship performance from Stew Thomson, captured seven events, including both freshmen relays. The Crimson, led by Captain Bob Rittenburg's three winning legs, won four relays, while B.U. took three field events...
...last season, gave one of his best all-round performances Saturday. Not only did he place third in the broad jump behind B.U.'s Bernie Bruce and Yale's Dick Goss, but he ran the third leg on the winning shuttle hurdles relay; a 220 for the first place sprint medley team; and opening leg on the winning mile relay. He also competed in the high jump and 440 relay...
...were Renny Little in the mile relay with a 50 flat quarter; Art Siler with a second place in the discus throw; Dave McLean, Don French, and Al Wills with good early season miles in the four mile relay; and Dick Wharton with a strong 880 anchor in the sprint medley relay...
...best races tomorrow should be the sprint relays, in which Yale, possessing a great trio in Hank Thresher, Larry Reno, and John Haipern, will be racing against the clock, trying to get ready for next week's Penn Relays, and the shuttle hurdles relay, in which Harvard, led by Bob Rittenburg and Joel Cohen should also be close to a local record...