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Trailing by nearly 30 points in the early events, the Crimson finally began clicking in the field events and surged past Brown. But Rhode Island's cinder entries had already sewed up the meet. Running like frightened gazelles, they had out-scored the Varsity 38 to 2. Only Wes Flint, who grabbed two easy wins in the hurdles, was able to outrun the visitors...
...correspondents at U.N. had visited his uncle's plant some months ago). He noted that Pravda' s acidulous David Zaslavsky, journalistic gadfly of the Western World, is "an amiable man who looks like anybody's favorite grandfather." On the mass tour, the Associated Press's Wes Gallagher found that Peter Pospelov, Pravda's editorial chief, "looks like a member of a Midwestern legislature." Pravda gets 15,000 letters a month from its readers, only 40 or 50 of them complaints...
...high-jumping chores. Both have done six feet. Dave Read, who has been hobbling around on crutches since the eve of the Yale meet, will be ready for action by April first and his return will case the responsibility of Harvey Thayer. Read will also help out Captain Wes Flint in the 110-yard high and 220-yard low hurdles, as will Pat McCormick, Interscholastic champion from Cleveland. Flint, third in the IC4A Indoor 60-yard highs, and considered unbeatable in the 220 lows outdoors, will continue his rivalry with Yale's Cook and Finlay on the cinders...
...causes are given for the Varsity's revival: the mass return of older, tested performers like Jack Fisher, Pete Garland, Wes Flint (captain), Bill Jackson, and Gene Harrigan and their spirit-producing willingness to absorb coaching finesse; and the quality of the coaching Head-coach Mikkola's reputation is worldwide. Freshman coach Ed Flanagan, whose record at Andover established him as one of the country's leading shot and field specialists, is new here...
Mikkola's winners came through pretty much as expected. Fisher, Felton, and Zeigler, throwing so hard they split one of the 35-pound weights in two, added 10 fat points to the Crimson total with a one-two-three performance. Wes Flint, newly-elected captain, scored an easy win in the 60-yard high hurdles and finished second in the unfamiliar 80-yard lows. Pete Harwood had no trouble winning the pole vault, stopping at 12 feet 9 inches...