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...middle distance events scheduled, all the runners will be fresh and ready to hit a new low time. Johnny Nevius, who broke the Yale-Cornell meet record last week with a 50.2 second leg will make up the team with Ham Hucker, brilliant veteran quarter-miler, Jim Pender, the sprinter and Walt Tatum...
Cornell will bring the team that will probably give Harvard the stiffest competition. The Big Red has an exceptional sprinter in sophomore Jim Ponder, while another second year man, John Nevius, is their outstanding quarter miler. Hamilton Hucker, 1935 IC4A and the present National A.A.U. low hurdles champion, is back to strongthen the team still further...
...Decathloner Jim Bausch won it in 1932. This "Stop kidding me. Where did Owens finish, then?" year, voting for the Sullivan award was closer than usual. Early returns made it look as if it would go to famed Jesse Owens, the triple Olympic champion Negro sprinter, who failed to win last year mainly because the fact that he was a page in the Ohio State Legislature cast a cloud over his amateur standing. Last week, when the final votes were tabulated, Owens was in second place, with 1.013 votes...
Greenwood Memorial has two of the swimmers who captured first places in the dual meet with the Crimson last year. Dell then won the 200-yard backstroke, defeating Heskett and Munroe of Harvard, while Eloranta won the 100-yard free style, nosing out Mickay, the sprinter whom he will face again tonight...
Last week, the Cuban Senate rudely impeached President Gomez (see p. 18). Two days later his Sports Festival started off serenely enough under the new Government. With 3,000 spectators squealing joyously. Sprinter Owens ran 100 yards on the cinder track beside the Tropical Stadium football field in 9.9 sec. His opponent, a mediocre racehorse named Julio McCaw started 40 yards behind Owens, gained ground by cutting across a curve onto the football field, finished second...