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Although Joie Ray did not break the world's record in the special mile race yesterday in the Stadium, he ran an excellent four laps, cressing the line in 4 minutes 15 1-5 seconds. Starting from scratch, the national amateur champion did the first quarter in 60 2-5 seconds and completed the second lap in 2 minutes 6 2-5 seconds, after passing and Harris, who started with leads of 85 and 110 yards, respectively. At the three quarters mark, Watters, whose handicap was 150 yards, was still leading Ray, whose time for that distance was 3 minutes...
...long ago Joie Ray, heralded by telegrams and press notices, came to the University intent upon breaking the world's record in the mile run. At that time he failed, but undeterred by the past he is returning to try again after the Yale baseball game tomorrow...
That the race will rouse considerable interest and that Ray is quite likely to establish a new record, if given a fast track and good weather conditions, can not be doubted. Clearly too the Athletic Association has acted magnanimously in inviting Ray to attempt the record once again; it will be repaid by the interest of the baseball game crowd and of those who purchase the special tickets. It is at least questionable, however; whether any athletic event in which the center of attraction is non-collegiate can be appropriate during Commencement week. The week is devoted to college life...
...Ray is admittedly one of the greatest runners of all time. But attention is fastened this week not on excellence or perfection but on what Harvard can furnish--be it good or bad, athletic or scholastic. It is a tribute to Ray but hardly to Harvard that the University must depend on an outsider for one of the gala events of Commencement Week...
...open handicap race tomorrow directly after the baseball game with Yale, Joie Ray will make his second attempt in the Stadium to break the world's record for the mile distance. At the same time Eastman will try to better the College mark in the shot put, which now stands at 46 feet 10 inches, and there will probably be several trial races for the University men who will go on the trip to England...