Word: hurdler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relay teams, a half miler, a hurdler, and a high jumper of the Varsity track team are entered in the Millrose Games in New York Saturday night...
...sprints will miss John Calloway, who in his Senior year suddenly forged into a first class sprinter. Bill Schmidt was captain and first-ranking high-hurdler of last year's Varsity, but was incapacitated by a sprained ankle in the latter part of the season. Former Freshman Mason Fernald, in the Oxford-Cambridge meet of July 10, succeeds to the hurdling honors...
...Olympic Hurdler Forrest Towns had been doing training camp work there to make up University of Georgia credits he lost last summer when he went to Berlin. A track meet was scheduled for Visitors Day, and Hurdler Towns, a fine all-round athlete, was expected to dominate it.* Admittedly he could beat any man at his specialty. Question was: could he beat a horse? Forthwith he was matched against Tommy Roberts, a prize cavalry horse in the light hunter (jumping) class. U. S. Army qualifications for such a horse : must be sound, five years old, 15 hands high. Distance...
Last week, before 2,000 spectators, Hurdler Towns and Tommy Roberts (ridden by Private Marvin Henry) raced. Hurdler Towns ran off to a long, early lead. Between the fourth and fifth hurdles he stepped in a hole, was thrown off stride. Tommy Roberts came on rapidly. Over the last hurdle Towns squeezed ahead to break the tape, but mainly because Tommy Roberts tried to jump it. The result: Hurdler Towns by a nose in 13 sec. flat. Said he: "I'll take two-footed racers in the future...
...Hurdler Towns won the 100-yd. dash in 10 sec., the high jump at 6 ft., anchored a team that won the 880-yd. relay. His Troop F won the meet...