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Harvard will open its Spring track season this afternoon on Franklin Field, at the University of Pennsylvania, when Coach E. L. Farrell will send two quartets into action in the sprint medley and distance medley relays, against a field including the strongest Eastern track teams, gathered for the first test of the season at the 37th annual Quaker City relay carnival. Record will compete in the 120-yard high hurdles...
Farrell named a tentative team for the sprint medley as follows: Record and N. P. Dodge '33 in the 220; K. F. Kollmyer '33 in the quarter, and Cobb in the half. Likely Crimson entrants in the distance medley are: Dodge, quarter; Hallowell, half, Cobb, three quarters-mile; J. M. Fox '32, mile...
Wood, who is one of the few Sophomores ever to receive a Harvard sport captaincy, has been the most consistent winner on Coach Harold Ulen's first Harvard swimming team this year. He swims in the sprint events and had been undefeated in intercollegiate competition until the Yale meet on Wednesday. In that meet he came in third in the 50-yard, swim, second in the 100 and swam anchor on the relay team. Wood is one of a group of Sophomores around whom Coach Ulen is planning to build his teams of the next two years. He prepared...
...Conger had to beat George Bullwinkle, intercollegiate one-mile outdoor champion, and wise fans said he could not do it. They knew how Bullwinkle-a pacemaker as well as a finisher-liked to beat a finisher like Conger by getting so far ahead that no sprint would catch him. But this time Conger stuck to Bullwinkle's heels. Bullwinkle never got more than three yards ahead, and that was not enough. Just before the wire Conger turned loose his famed "bicycle kick'' and staggered over, winner by one foot...
...victory by Captain W. S. deLima '31 in the quarter mile event, and first places won by B. S. Wood '33 in the two shorter free style swims, together with a sprint by Wood as anchor man in the decisive relay race, again gave the Crimson swimmers victory, the sixth successive one in the pool of the Indoor Athletic Building, when they defeated Dartmouth 37 to 25 on Saturday...