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...revealed that Eric Cutler, tired after his epochal 1500-meter second, had swum a heat of the 440, but that his time of 5:03 was too slow to quality for the finals. Cutler's ailing arm was another factor to slow him up. Frannie Powers won his heat of the quarter in 5:08, but his time was too slow...
Rusty Greenhood took fourth place in the high-board dive, repeating his low-board performance, and was the only Harvard man to place in Saturday's events. Al Patnik of Ohio State won the three-meter test with 161.32 points, an incredibly high total, and was more than 32 points ahead of his teammate Earl Clark. Hal Benham, of Michigan was third...
...week the middle-distance flash of the season, Negro Portrait Painter & Student John Borican of Columbia University, who week before had jumped the gun to beat Glenn Cunningham in Manhattan in the fastest 1,000 yards ever run, went to Dartmouth to see how fast he could run 800 meters and the half-mile (880 yards). Spaced out to pace him were four Dartmouth runners with handicaps of from 10 to 95 yards. Careful was Borican this time to be off with the gun and not before. He turned off the quarter in a sweet 52.4, overhauled the pacers...
...seconds off his time would have bettered every 800-meter and 880-yard mark in the books. The official 800-meter world record of 1:49.6 is held by Elroy Robinson, but is about to be replaced by Sydney Wooderson's 1:48.4 of last summer.* For the half mile, Wooderson's 1:49.2 is the pending record...
Last week Carl Magee was in Oklahoma City again, having resigned from the three papers and left the Valley for good. He explained that he was looking over his interests in Dual Parking Meter Co., would soon leave for New Mexico to write a book on Teapot Dome. At reports that he would revive the Oklahoma News (which Scripps-Howard let die last month), ex-Firebrand Carl Magee only shook his head...