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...Open Kudos Championship last week, a professional breasted the tape a clean winner. He was Harvard's lean, long-legged, new President James Bryant Conant, recipient this season of seven honorary degrees. Two strides behind was Amateur Hull, with five degrees. A brilliant finishing sprint put Tyler Dennett, president-elect of Williams, in a triple tie for third place with Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes and Princeton's new President Harold Wrillis Dodds, each with four degrees...
...meter run, Klopstock's in the 200-meter hurdles-gave Stanford the bulk of her points, 35¼, for the title, to Yale's 25½. California's five-man team was third with 20. Two firsts by Bob Kiesel (100-meter and 200-meter sprints), piled up half of California's score. ¶ Only man beside Kiesel to win two firsts was Princeton's famed Bill Bonthron. He won the 1,500-meter run easily, with Penn's Venzke second. In the 800-meter race, he started his sprint late, suddenly found himself...
Penn. Franklin Field was one vast, miserable mud puddle, but 5,000 spectators turned out in the rain to see the ½mi. anchor-leg duel in the sprint medley between Indiana's Charles ("Chuck") Hornbostel and Princeton's William ("Bonny") Bonthron. Hornbostel's team mates gave him an advantage of 4 yd. at the start, but the spectacled Hoosier runner, who looks more like some obscure grind in a chemistry department than a track captain, did not need it. At the finish. Bonthron 6 yd. behind. Next day Indiana also won the one-and two-mile...
...they plodded up, Komonen gaining a few as they coasted down the other side. At Boston College Komonen pulled ahead. He had trained for the race by running 15 mi. a day on snowshoes. At Coolidge Corner, coming into Boston, his feet were still light and he began to sprint between the crowds roped off along the sidewalks. He was alone running down Commonwealth Avenue. He turned into Exeter Street as lightly as though he were trotting to catch a street car, whisked across the finish where he was timed at 2 hr., 32 min., 53 sec. He was sitting...
...Freshman year he received his numerals as a member of the swimming team, and last year won a minor "H". Beside competing in the sprint this year, he was a member of the relay team which took many first places...