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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entries must be submitted to Varsity Track Manager George Caploe at the Track Room in Dillon Field House by 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Only shorts and sneakers are needed for non-track-team competitors, and the winner in each event will be awarded an appropriate prize. Starting times will be announced later...
...candidates in all) plump, 42-year-old Maurice Hartt ran thousands of votes ahead of both Independent Paul Masse and Communist Michael Buhay. The fact that the Liberal Party's best bilingual orators journeyed over from Ottawa for the windup of a slam-bang campaign, helped. But Winner Hartt almost surely owed his victory most of all to the electorate's change of mind about Communism. The Hartt victory also indicated approval of the Federal Government's handling of the Russian spy-ring investigations...
...Winner last month of his twelfth French indoor title, Borotra at 48 is still one of the four or five top indoor players in Europe. Last week in Manhattan-third stop in his current U.S. exhibition tour*-his free-swinging volleys and unorthodox backhand (which looks much like a ping-pong shot) were not in top form, but his ebullient disposition was (chasing a drive, he landed in a spectator's lap, apologized with a winning Gallic bow). Frank Shields's big service was too big for Borotra, just as it had been in the Wimbledon semi-finals...
...hopping was vitamin B-1 injections, administered 24 hours before a race. Some of the crooked gyps believed that an older method-benzedrine-worked too, and did not show up in a saliva test the first time it was given. Everybody wanted to collect purse money ($525 to a winner) before the park fell on its face. Track stewards ruled three gyps off the track for "hopping...
Died. William Starling Burgess, 68, famed naval architect, designer of three successful America's Cup defenders (Ranger, Rainbow, Enterprise), pioneer airman and aircraft designer (winner of the prized Collier Trophy in 1915 for developing a self-stabilizing airplane); of a heart ailment; in Hoboken...