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...Jayvee race was perhaps the most exciting of the afternoon's thrilling program. Harvard's strong boatload, stroked by Colt Wagner, set off at a furious pace but found itself unable to get ahead of either Syracuse or M.I.T. until the final sprint...
None of the runners will be called on to perform in more than one event save for the hurdlers and sprint men. Don Donahue and Roger Schafer will run in the 100 and 220-yard hurdles, while Charley Smith, George Dana, and Don McSweeney will take care of the sprints...
...world's indoor records for two miles and three miles. Instead of an affair as one-sided as the Russian invasion of Finland, the Garden race looked like a square shake, particularly at Maki's favorite distance, three miles. Rice's style sports a fast sprint to the tape. Maki's formula is an almost imperceptible acceleration, pulling farther & farther away from his opponent un til he has an invulnerable lead. If Rice could dog Maki's heels for two and a half miles, experts felt he could beat the Finn...
...last lap and a half, Cutler was trying to make up the inches he lost because of this, and went into his final turn without a breath--in other words, a sprint turn. The two dug water like 50-men for the last half-lap, and their leading arms came over for the final stroke together. But Choutean's hand slid under the line first, ending a superb contest in which both competitions swam their all-time fastest quarter-mile...
...Crimson tankers carried off eight out of nine possible firsts against the Quakers, whose only consolation was Levick Tolan's 1:43 victory in the 150-yard backstroke over Harvard's highly favored Art Bosworth. It was simply a case of Bosworth holding back his sprint too long and permitting Tolan to sneak off with first-place honors in a time which the Crimson dorsal ace could better on almost any occasion he desired. Dick Harris came through with a third...