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Aerial reconnaissance warned the British last Thursday that the Bismarck and her escort, the 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen, had left the Norwegian port of Bergen for a dash for the open sea to raid the Atlantic convoys. Powerful units were at once mobilized to intercept them. At dawn Saturday, she was engaged by the Hood and the Prince of Wales. The Hood was destroyed "with very few survivors" by a lucky hit on her powder magazine at a range of more than 13 miles. But in the battle the Bismarck was slowed down...
...date four members of the Crimson team have expressed their willingness to enter. Doug Pirnie will run the 220-yard dash, John Shattuck will put the shot, Chet d'Autremont has entered the pole vault, and Tom White the hammer throw...
...proof of the pudding is that three Harvard records were smashed Saturday afternoon. However, it was not some shot in the arm which set such a high standard but a strong wind swirling down the dash stretch. Aided thusly Donahue unofficially broke his low hurdle record by racing the distance in 23.3 seconds three tenths better than his old mark, Roger Schafer, who finished second to Donahue, made the distance...
Third record broken in the meet, the second unofficially, was Doug Pirnie's 20.7 for the 220-yard dash. The recognized Harvard mark is 21.4 Pirnie also dashed the 100 in 9.7, two seconds better than anything he has done before, and jumped a second in the broad to take the meet's individual scoring honors...
...Harvard doing a point or two better than foreseen throughout the encounter. According to Hoyle, the visitors held a four point lead in the field events their strongest department; but their two point margin in the running sector was quite unexpected considering Yale's sweep of the 440-yard dash...