Two non-Harvard students raced neck and neck over the 15-mile course to Wellesley to take top places in the annual Harvard-Wellesley bike race Saturday.
Richard McKown, a junior at Malden High School, won the event with a time of 47 minutes, 16 seconds. Phil Cohen, a student at M.I.T., finished second, five yards behind McKown. McKown pulled away from his opponent only in the last 30 yards of the race.
Forty people left Larz Anderson Bridge for the Alumnae Hall parking lot, and only 30 finished the race. Reportedly, "no ill feeling" existed among the University participants against the winner who received a French racing bicycle as a prize.
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