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...week he ran the 220-yd. dash in 20.5 sec., beating R. A. Locke's 1926 world record of 20.6 sec. He ran the 100-yd. dash in 9.5 sec., tying the world record set by Negro Edward Tolan in 1929 and equalled since by Frank Wykoff and Emmett Toppino...
...causes of his ascendancy are not far to seek. President Cosgrave, it has been said, suffers today from his past predominance. Too much success is bad for a popular hero; Robert Emmett is better loved than O'Connell. There is little in the comparative prosperity of the Free State to catch a national ear attuned to the death keen and the patriotie plaint. The appeal of De Valera arouses memories that obliterate the economic connection of Ireland and England...
...multiplied recently. Still numerically small, it contains all the best players, since patting soft shots at novices spoils the teachers for high-grade competition. In it are William Tatem Tilden II; his good friend Frank Hunter; Vincent Richards, onetime Tilden protégé; Howard Kinsey. Californian cut-stroker; Emmett Pare, youngest member of Tilden Tennis Tours, Inc.: and Karel Kozeluh, who was supposed to be best player in the world till Tilden beat him 33 out of 37 matches last winter...
...over his New York Athletic Club teammate Gene Venzke; behind them both came another New York A. C. runner, Frank Crowley. All three were far ahead of the defending champion, Ray Conger. Frank Wykoff ran the loo-yd. dash in 9.5 sec., a yard and a half ahead of Emmett Toppino of Loyola, three yards ahead of Eddie Tolan. But Tolan won the 220-yd. race in the fastest time ever made around a curved track, in a great finish against Ralph Metcalfe of Chicago. The new decathlon champion was Jess Mortensen. Against the most imposing field...
Singles--Davenport (H) defeated Noble (D) 6-0, 6-1; G. H. Hartsford (H) won from Belknapp (D), 6-2, 4-6, 6-2; Lawrence Freeburn (H) defeated Hall (D), 6-4, 8-6, 6-3; W. K. Porter (H) efeated Vail (D), 6-2, 6-4; W. S. Emmett (H) won from Rigby, 10-8, 8-6; R. E. Metz (H) defeated Mann...