Word: beccali
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton Invitation Track Meet, barrel-chested Donald Ray Lash of the University of Indiana proceeded to dash the eight laps in the fastest time ever recorded for the distance outdoors. This year Princeton, hoping for another sensation, invited him to run the mile against Archie San Romani, Luigi Beccali of Italy and Glenn Cunningham, world's record holder. Gene Venzke also entered to shoot at the world mark for three-quarters of a mile, incidentally pace the other four...
...Venzke pounded into the chilly wind at Palmer Stadium last week only Lash stuck close to his heels. At the half, with Venzke well in the van, Lash was leading Beccali by 15 yards, with Cunningham and San Romani in the rear, refusing to be rushed. Lash was certain to be winded by the terrific pace. When Venzke dropped out, Lash faltered and Cunningham and San Romani swept into the final lap to pass him. Twenty yards from the finish, San Romani spurted ahead of Cunningham and Lash uncorked his galloping sprint. As far as the spectators could see, they...
...first ten years of the meet's history, competitors at Fresno broke eleven world's records, tied three. Last week, they broke two more. Elroy Robinson, Merced, Calif, schoolteacher, ran 1,000 yards in 2 min., 9.7 sec.-to break the record made by Luigi Beccali of Italy in 1933. Stanford's 880-yd. relay team (James Kneubuhl, Ray Malott, Stanley Hiserman, Jack Weierhauser) scooted around the track in 1 min., 25 sec.-.8 sec. faster than the mark set by a University of Southern California team in 1927. Runner Weierhauser's tape-breaking...
...five of the six major miles, ran the first half of the race two seconds faster than he did in 1934, but failed by three-tenths of a second to break his record. The three other entrants - Kansas' Archie San Romanj, Italy's Luigi Beccali, New York's Gene Venzke-finished so close together that the last one's time was less than three seconds worse than the winner...
Major event on the schedule of the Amateur Athletic Union's indoor track & field championships last week was the 1,500-metre run, with Glenn Cunningham, 1936 Olympic runner-up and Luigi Beccali. 1932 Olympic champion, heading a crack field. A mysterious ailment, described by its victim as "like tonsillitis except that I haven't any tonsils." kept Cunningham on the sidelines. His Kansas confrere, Archie San Romani, music student at Kansas State Teachers College, won the race from Beccali by a foot, with Pennsylvania's Gene Venzke third...