Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ekins did; he merely was not interested in it, any more than a man entered in a walking race would feel himself in competition with a runner who passed him on his course. Mr. Ekins is to be congratulated that he circled the globe in 18 days, 14 hr. and 56 min. Mr. Kieran holds the distinction, for whatever it may be worth, of having circled the globe in the shortest time using only the facilities of established passenger service...
...World-Telegram's world-girdling Reporter Ekins with no victory, no record. Third contestant in the race-that-was-not-a-race, New York Journal's Dorothy Kilgallen, took a special plane on the home stretch from Alameda to Newark, completed her circumnavigation in 24 days 12 hr. 51 min. Sticking strictly to commercial schedules, except for one taxi ride from Bologna to Brindisi, Timesman Kieran made the trip in 24 days 14 hr...
...airlines as a publicity stunt for their respective papers. Bad planning on the part of the Journal and Times, plus a couple of offside jumps by Reporter Ekins, soon put that World- Telegram man far in the lead. This week he completed the world trip in 18 days, 14 hr., 56 min., 50 and 2/5 sec., by no means a record...
...game he had chosen to see turned out to be the longest (2 hr. 49 min.) and one of the most spectacular in World Series history. When it was over, 18-to-4 for the Yankees, the Giants had used five pitchers. Every Yankee including Pitcher Lefty Gomez had made at least one hit and one run. Baseball statisticians had compiled an even dozen new records. It was the biggest score and the worst beating in World Series history. Most brilliant individual performance was that of Second Baseman Tony Lazzeri. He duplicated a feat accomplished only once before...
...Johannesburg the big crowd, waiting tensely for the end of the 6,150-mi. junket, burst into cheers as the Scott-Guthrie plane slid in for a landing, winner of the $20,000 first prize in 52 hr., 56 min. The celebration was suddenly stilled by the news that Pilot Findlay and one of his companions had been killed in a crash at Abercorn, near Lake Tanganyika. Capitalist Schlesinger announced that he would donate the rest of the prize money ($30,000) to the dependents of the two dead airmen...