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...June 1939, Lieut. Commander Burke at last had a ship of his own, was piped aboard the U.S.S. Mugford as its skipper. Mugford was a destroyer, and thus began his second real romance. In the Solomons five years later, he was to handle destroyers with a deadly dash and affectionate skill that won him Navy renown as the most famous destroyer man in history...
...Question. So the crowd put its cash on Needles-and at the start it was sorry. In the first fast dash past the grandstand, Needles was 16th in a field of 17. Jockey Dave Erb was as worried as his backers. Needles had let loose his bit, seemed uninterested in running. Up front, Calumet Farm's Fabius and Rex Ells worth's Terrang dueled for the lead...
...Besides winning the 100-yd. dash in 0:9.4, just a tenth of a second off the world record, and taking the 220-yd. dash in 0:20.3, another slim tenth of a second off the world record, Duke Sophomore Dave Sime won the 220-yd. low hurdles in a track meet at Durham, N.C. in 0:22.2. This time he was exactly one-tenth of a second faster than the world record...
...Crimson. Indoors, they finished second and third in the 600 and ran two legs of the victorious mile-relay team. In addition, the nature of the outdoor meet, as compared to the winter Heps, makes the Crimson's chances of a victory slimmer. Indoors, there was one dash and one hurdles race and the Crimson did not place in either. Outdoors, there are two of each...
Despite several outstanding performances by the Crimson, it was all Cornell. Bo Roberson, the football speedster, led the Big Red with two victories, winning the 220 low hurdles and the unorthodox 95-yard dash. (The 100 yard dash course had been measured after Roberson had registered a sterling 0:09.4 and found five yards too short...