Word: races
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edgar Wallace, whose novels, in England, are so manifold that they are called "Wallaces" (The Three Just Men, 139 others), race horse owner, tipster, playwright (The Sign of the Leopard), arrived in Manhattan, thought that he might gather U. S. criminal material for another "Wallace." Said he: "The speediest work I ever turned out was a book I wrote in a prize contest seven years ago. I started it on a Thursday and finished it on Monday. Its title? I forget. I think it was called the 'Countess Something.' " With him was his wife who told him that...
Harvard will sponsor its Annual Interscholastic Cross Country Run, open to high schools and preparatory schools this morning at 10.30 o'clock. At that time the preparatory schools will race and the high school meet will begin a 11 o'clock. The high school course will be laid on the track around the circumference of Soldiers Field. Competitor will run around the field twice, a distance of the little over two miles; the prep school teams will have to run a distance of three and one half miles...
Over two hundred entries have beet received from the teams in the high school race, in which 19 teams have been entered. They are Oxford High. Worcester High School of Commerce, Providence La Salle, Providence Technical Rogers High, Westerly High. Arlington High.. Schenectady High. Woburn High. Stoneham High. Weymouth High. Brain tree High. Quincy High, Newton High Concord High. North High of Worcester Winchester High. Beverly High, and Newton High. Schenectady High, winners last year, will be favorites again to day, although the Arlington harriers of Coach William McCarthy are considered to have a good chance. Five preparatory schools...
Northeastern, in second place, had a well balanced team. R. E. Jellison, a member of the Boston harriers, was the individual winner of the race, covering the distance in the good time of 23 min., 50 sec., 11 seconds later, his teammate, B. B. Sheridan, scampered across the final line in third position. A. H. Elliott placed twelfth. R. Greenleaf fifteenth, and G. H. Bradford seventeenth, making the team's total of 48 points...
Holy Cross was in third place, scoring 101 points. W. Brennan, star of the Purple team, placed second in the race, in the very good time of 23 min., 57 sec failure to gain a lower group score. The poorer showing of the rest of the team was responsible for Holy Cross...