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...Africa and it will not be amiss to keep tab on English dailies and weeklies till the end of the present month. The name of the runner is Arthur F. Newton, who last July shattered the world's record for 100 miles by covering that distance in 14 hrs. and 43 minutes. . . . Newton was educated at Bedford and left England 21 years ago to farm in Rhodesia, South Africa when only a youth. He had passed his 44th year when he made mince meat of the world's 100 mile record...
Near Woodruff, S. C., workmen with picks, shovels and dynamite worked day and night in shifts, for 110 hours (four days, 14 hrs.), to cut through the roof of a creekside cave on the farm of one Jonas W. Swink. Mournful howls, deep in the earth, spurred their efforts. Crowds gathered. On the fourth day, they dug out the body of a large red fox bearing gashes of a fatal battle. They hung the fox on a tree. Before dawn of the fifth day, which chanced to be the second anniversary of the exhumation of Miner Floyd Collins who died...
...George Young, 17-year-old Canadian, and huge Norman Ross of Chicago-still faced the mainland. Between 3 and 4 miles from shore Swimmer Ross sighed finis and groped for the gunwale of his boat. That left George Young alone, and he succeeded. After 15 hrs., 44 min., 33 sec., he reached Point Vinvente, Calif., losing 25 Ibs. in this $25,000 venture...
...Mexico-Tomas Zafiro and Leonicio San Miguel, Tarahumara Indians-ran 62½ miles (100 kilometres) in 9 hrs. 37 min. Mexican sportsmen asked to have the record accepted as official, petitioned for a 100-kilometre race in the next Olympic games. Newspapermen sought out Zafiro and San Miguel. "We are strong," they replied, "because we live in the open air. We wear, in daylight, cloths around our privities; at night we cover ourselves with the skins of beasts. We eat, four times a day, frijoles1 and chili with tortillas.2 Also we like deer meat, chickens, turtles, lizards and rabbits...
...swim along with them, faster, at least than the U. S. women. He posted ?1,000 ($4,870) to that end. Last week, puffing and panting, swimmer Norman Leslie Derham of Southend waded ashore at Dover to collect Lord Riddell's money. His time was 13 hrs.: 56 min.-35 min. faster than Miss Ederle, but 171 min. slower than Baker Michel of France. British hardihood was somewhat vindicated...