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Workman, the Cambridge captain, has recently cone a great deal of work in the half-mile run, and because of his wonderful ability to set a hard pace and keep a good reserve for a sprint, should win the event easily. He ran the distance last Saturday in two minutes flat without being hard pressed, and on the same day Boynton won the Harvard Yale trial in 2 minutes 1 1-5 seconds...
...three laps, and finished with a strong burst of speed. Knowles was a good fourth. Although Holland of Georgetown, won the quarter mile rather easily, the three Harvard men, Rust, Clerk, and Manson, obtained the other three places. In the two mile, Mills came in second after a fine sprint, and Swan finished fourth. Lightner was a close second to Duffy in the hundred yards dash, and also was fourth in the two-twenty. Converse and Willis ran second and third to Clapp in both of the hurdle races...
...Rotch did good work in the high jump, considering that he had just recovered from illness. E. N. Mills has had to be careful of a strained tendon in his leg. He is able to jog at an easy pace but as soon as he begins to sprint his old injury troubles him. With the exception of these five, no promising Freshmen came out; however, several of the men on the football team have good records on the track...
...quarter mile proved to be the best contested event, the result of the race being in doubt until the finish, when Gould won by a good sprint...
...they will establish quite the record of last year's eight, which was phenomenal, beating the 'varsity quite handily several times, at two miles. They row nearly the same stroke as the 'varsity, altered a little to suit a two-mile course, which is more or less of a sprint at best. The stroke is shorter and there is not quite the body reach to it that the other crew has. However, it is a smooth stroke, and so far has not been carried up beyond thirty-five to the minute. After the fashion of all Yale crews, the blade...