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Five members of the Crimson track team leave Cambridge this morning accompanied by Coaches Donovan and Whelan and Manager J. F. Keane '21 to compete in the Penn Relay Carnival at Philadelphia tomorrow and Saturday. The University will be represented in the American College Sprint Medley Championship by B. Wharton '22, E. O. Gourdin '21, W. H. Goodwin '20 and D. F. O'Connell, Jr., '21 on Friday, and these same four men will compose the team entered in the American College One-Mile Relay Championship on Saturday. Besides these entries Gourdin will also compete on Saturday in the hundred...
Final trials for the Penn relay teams were held yesterday and resulted in the choosing of B. Wharton '22, E. O. Gourdin '21, W. H. Goodwin '20, and Captain D. F. O'Connell, Jr., '21 of whom the first two will run 220-yard dashes in the American College Sprint Medley Championship, the third a 440-yard dash, and the last named a half-mile. These men will also compose the team which is to race in the American College One-Mile Relay Championship on Saturday, the medley race being held on the previous day. In addition to these...
...crew had a race over the same course, the third crew winning by the narrow margin of five feet. The yearling eight held the lead until the last half mile, when the two shells changed position frequently, the third crew finally putting itself over the line by a hard sprint at the finish that gave it a five foot lead...
...leading point-winner of the track squad this year, placing first in both dashes in the dual meets with M. I. T., Yale, and Princeton. In the Intercollegiates, Moore came in second in the furlong and third in the century event. Moore's best time for the shorter sprint is ten seconds flat, which he made in the semi-finals of the Intercollegiates. In the M. I. T. Meet, Moore ran the 220 in 22 and 1-5 seconds, a record which he has not equaled since...
...well to the rear. As the boats neared Harvard Bridge the leaders were a length to the good. Both coxswains called for a spurt, and the Juniors added a half length to their advantage before running into the rough water of the Basin. From that moment until the final sprint both, strokes lowered their cadence considerably and, matching spurt for spurt, held their relative positions until the finish line was crossed by the 1920 boat in the time of 10 minutes and 46 seconds...