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...John Potter, Jr. of Dunster House, 16 cyclists raced out to Wellesley yesterday morning in the third annual Harvard Bicycle Racing Club contest...
...Potter sped over the 10 1/2 mile course in 28:30, for an average of over 21 miles per hour. With this victory he achieved the distinction of being the first man to win two races run by the Club, and in addition he lowered his last year's record by eight minutes...
Following Potter at a distance of about a hundred yards were two Freshmen, Charles H. Reynolds and Stephen M. Crabtree, but they were disqualified for taking the wrong course. Officially second was J. Leland Sosman '43, Dunster House football star. Sosman was followed by Albert Fullerton '44, winner of another race last year, while in fourth and fifth places were Thomas Allen, Jr., club chairman, and Leonard Weis '44, Outing Club leader. Prize ribbons were awarded to these five...
Among the racers already signed up are John Potter, Jr. '45, last year's winner, and Albert Fullertin, Jr. '44 and Arthur Besse, Jr. '42, winners of other races last year. These three will be striving Sunday to become the first club member to win two races in its three years of existence...
...Miss Potter sailed with a lusty boatload of ditch diggers, carpenters, welders, structural iron workers and cat-operators from Seattle. "There were not many women aboard-only a few school teachers and Army and Navy wives, a prostitute and a giggling 250-pound redhead who had arranged her trip through a matrimonial bureau." Miss Potter "heard one well-soused carpenter tell the purser 'Who the hell wants to go up there anyway...