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Easy Win To Hawkins
Noel Hawkins easily won the 1971 Boys' High School senior steeplechase over a new course at Sponge Bay. He strode away from the rest of the senior runners and was never headed thereafter.
Boys'High Steeples
Hawkins bounds over the final hurdle before completing the last mile home.
Loping along on the final run in.
Wayne Wooster climbs out of the water hazard. He went on to win the intermediate section.
Tony Proudfoot covered himself in mud and glory to take the junior section.
"Lost me running shoe, I 'ave, in this blinkety muddy water!"
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