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...world record breaker or on the other hand if the course of 4.25 miles had been inaccurately measured. If the course is right, Vogel was running close to a flye minute mile all the way, up and down hill at that. The record four mile on a cinder track is only a couple of minutes less than that time...
Except for some sandlot experience, Murphy is no ballplayer himself, having confined his spring athletic talents to the cinder paths while at Harvard. For this reason he is considered by some to be an outsider and not entitled to be the head of a union of baseball players...
Like most Norse runners, Strand prefers practicing on soft ground or a pine-needled trail rather than on a cinder track. Although he brought three pairs of Swedish shoes with him because he thinks U.S. track shoes are inferior, Strand ran two miles twice a day in his bare feet. Last week he made his U.S. debut...
...villains in this afternoon's cinder-feat will be three in number, by the titles of Dartmouth, Pennsylvania and Yale. The fact that Yale was disposed of last Saturday in a dual meet is no indication that they will be easy pickings for the others today...
...Eisenhower's plan to use paratroopers in the invasion of France. Now Leigh-Mallory had good news: paratroop losses seemed to be light, and things were going fine. "Grand, said I, grand, I'll tell the boss as soon as he wakes up. ... I tiptoed down the cinder path to Ike's circus wagon to see if he was asleep and saw him silhouetted in bed behind a Western. Ike grinned as he lit a cigaret...