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The Crimson, with two firsts and a third, led Boston University and Northeastern in the first three events of the New England A.A.U. Field Meeet at the M.I.T. gymnasium last night.
Hal Geick won the broad jump with a leap of 21 feet, 11 3/8 inches, while Bob Mello cleared 13 feet to win the pole vault. Freshman Bob Rittenburg took third in the broad jump.
The mile relay team failed again at the Millrose Games in New York Saturday night. The Crimson quartet finished a slow third behind Columbia, which just edged out Yale in 3:26.4.
Running for Harvard were Paul Sheats, Phil Meyers, John Packard, and Ronnie Berman. This is the same team that lost to Yale at the Knights of Columbus meet last week.
Exams prevented several man from competing, while illness kept Ed Grutsner, one of the best collegiate middle distance runners in this area, inactive.
A few members of the squad will compete in the New England A.A.U. meet at Cranston, Rhode Island, tonight.
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