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Rh his stride the first of the three and, halfway down the track, shot a side-long look at the others. Lanny was not in sight, but the nearer Springdale youth was a yard or so behind and the further one running about even. As the first three were to be placed, Perry slowed up and took it easy, finishing a close third. Half way down the track Lanny was being helped over the strings to the turf. Perry, turning back, heard a timer say laughingly: "Fast time, Jim; ten and four-fifths!" Lanny was seated on the turf ruefully holding his injured knee when Perry reached him.

"I'm sorry, Lanny," he said. "Did you fall?"

"No, I just found I couldn't do it, Perry. How's the track?"

"Fine! Say, I wish Kirke had got placed. They've got four to our two in the final."

"Never mind, you or Soper will get a first. Those chaps aren't fast. Give me a pull up, will you?"

Perry got back into his dressing-gown and joined the throng across the field, at the finish of the 440-yards. Sears, Todd and Cranston lined up for the Purple in the quarter-mile and Springdale placed five runners at the mark, amongst them Davis, the Blue's captain. It was Davis who took the lead at the end of the first hundred yards and, although