Word: arai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swimming, as in running, the race which attracts most attention is the 100-metre sprint. The entrant in the 100-metre who attracted most attention at Berlin last week was handsome Peter Fick of the New York Athletic Club, world recordholder, but three wily little Japanese named Yusa, Arai and Taguchi were expected to make him do his utmost...
Splash! Yusa, Arai, Taguchi, Fick & Csik were in the pool. The wary Japanese watched Fick. Wary Fick watched the Japanese. Skinny Csik watched no one, kept on swimming. When the race was over, Fick and the Japanese stopped looking at each other, looked at Csik. He was the winner. Said Swimmer Fick to Swimmer Csik: "It's good I got third, at least." He was wrong again. In the confusion at the finish, judges had, perhaps erroneously, placed Fick sixth, behind not only Yusa, Arai and Taguchi but even German Helmuth Fischer...