Word: carlsen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hobart Lerner '40, and Sparks Sorlien '38 are entered in the 300. With six or seven in a heat, these boys will have diffculty getting the lead at the start, let alone keeping it with such stars as Roderkirchen, O'Sullivan, and Carlsen running. Sorlien is also entered in the dash event. He and Bobbie Gammons '39 will have to beat Marty Glickman, Ben Johnson, and Eulace Peacock to win, and observers are not overly optimistic...
...record stood unbroken until fortnight ago, when Lee Carey of Laurel, Iowa ripped the husks off 2,779 lb. Farmer Carey's record lasted three days. Then Leo Oeckenfels zipped the husks off 2,797 lb. Farmer Oeckenfels' record lasted five days. Then at Audubon, Iowa Elmer Carlsen, a husky husker of 24, laid his hands on an ear of corn and-whisk! When the regulation 80 minutes were over, he had stripped 2,824 lb., an average of 35 lb. a minute. For the third time in nine days the world's record had been shattered...