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...foot in time to a mazurka. Such goings-on had even the sanction of the late Mrs. Jack Gardner, Boston's leading lioness. Mrs. Gardner was for years ruler of the Pops. Even the conductor, it was said, awaited her nod before he raised his baton...
...feature of the race was the remarkable three-quarter mile run by Hallo well, of Harvard, who, given the baton way behind, bucked the wind and drew even to the leaders before handing the stick over to Dave Cobb...
...much-touted Harvard one-mile relay team rose to the highest expectations in the Unicorn games Saturday night at the Arena, distancing its Blue rivals by fully 40 yards. Yale suffered its Waterloo when Charles Engle, fleetest of the Eli runners, slipped as he was passing the baton to his anchor Tuttle, who dropped the stick. It seemed, however, to the more critical among the spectators in the thinly populated Arena that the race would have borne a Crimson tinge even if Engle had made a perfect pass, for Vernon Munroe Jr. '31 ran his quarter in under 50 seconds...
...Hennessey '30. returning to the Crimson relay fold for the first time since his restoration to scholastic eligibility, bided his time in the first lap, but then passed his Blue rival to hand the baton to his teammate with three yards to spare. F. E. Cummings '30 ended the second leg of the journey with an additional two yards. E. E. Record '32 had difficulty in holding his own against Engle, probably the fastest quarter-miler on this side of the Mississippi. The Yale star passed him, but Record called forth a spurt in the last lap which placed...
...Hampshire. A great relay team from Worcester won the dual mile relay with Harvard with ease. Their time was the fastest of all the mile relay races run. McCafferty, anchor man for Holy Cross, had a 30-yard lead handed over to him with the baton and managed to hold on to 12 yards of it at the tape. The Holy Cross Freshmen were but a few seconds slower than their upperclass brethern and showed their heels to the Harvard 1933 quartet...