Spengler Takes First Harriers Win GBC's Again

It would have been almost a perfect day for Harvard, but Tony Frontierro finished third.

The Crimson took the two spots before and after him to easily retain its championship in the Greater Boston cross country meet yesterday at Franklin Park. As expected, captain Tom Spengler was the individual winner in 24:15.

Frontierro's love of competition is particularly aroused when his team, Northeastern, races Harvard, and his favorite rival is the Crimson's John Quirk.

So it is easy to understand the unhappiness he felt when he saw Quirk go by him at the two-mile point, when Frontierro was second behind Spengler. He warned Quirk that such an energetic spurt so early in the race would "kill" him, and the two engaged in a short conversation.

As it turned out, Frontierro was right, and eventually he was able to repass Quirk, who was feeling the effects of his early aggressiveness.

In the home stretch, Quirk was only about 15 yards behind him but didn't have the kick to catch up.

But Frontierro's personal satisfaction could not double as happiness with the team outcome. Northeastern had hoped to challenge Harvard a bit more than it did. The Huskies were second with 53 points, as compared to the Crimson's 24.

It's hard to believe that Northeastern didn't do at least a little better than that. While Frontierro, the winner of the freshman race a year ago, was finishing third, a trio of good Huskies-Larry Joseph and freshmen Bruce Butterworth and Bill Rowe-were languishing back in the pack.

In Command

Even in the early parts of the race, Harvard was in command. Spengler and Quirk were soon running first and fourth, while Bob Seals and Mark Connolly were fifth and sixth. The situation didn't change much except for Seal's move during the middle of the five-mile race. By the four-mile point, he was second, and he finished in the same position letter specify the necessary steps toward admission.

The list of signers includes virtually all the specialists in East Asian studies at the level of assistant professor and above, and some in related fields. Besides Reischauer and Thomson, the signatories were: John K. Fairbank '29, Ezra F. Vogel, Dwight H. Perkins, Albert M. Craig, Ernest R. May, Ben-jamin I. Schwartz '38, Jerome A. Cohen, Henry Rosovsky and Roy Hofheinz Jr.