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...Clarence ("Buster") Crabbe, 22, of Los Angeles, ablest distance swimmer in the U. S.: the 1,500-metre race in the A. A. U. championships, at New Haven, lowering his own American record by 20.9 sec. to 19:45.6. Later he won two other championships???the 300-yd. medley and 500-yd. free style. Los Angeles won the team championship with 45 points to New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

College athletes last week congregated in two places?westerners in Des Moines, Ia., for the annual Drake Relay Carnival; easterners on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, for the annual Penn Relays. The latter meet was notable for no world's records. Yale took two championships??? the half-mile varsity and one-mile freshman relays. Columbia won the two-mile varsity relay. Anthony J. Plansky, herculean Georgetown Universityite, retained his decathlon championship with a new meet record of 7,169.16 points for the ten events?100-meter dash, shot-put, high jump, broad jump, 400-meter run, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Relays | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

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