Word: indoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hungry for the opening of the indoor track season, 16,000 fans crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden for last week's Millrose Games. They hoped for a 16-ft. pole vault, a 4:06 mile, an 8:50 two miles. They didn't get them; but they were satisfied with what they...
...Gregory Rice, a pony-sized runner with a Percheron kick, is the fastest distance racer ever developed in the U.S. Despite a triple hernia that has kept him out of the services, he has won 57 consecutive races (the great Paavo Nurmi won only 50), has whittled down the indoor records for two and three miles to 8:51.1 and 13:45.7 respectively. Last week, in his first race since pulling a tendon in his heel three months ago, Rice beat his nearest rival over two miles by 55 yards. But his time was not unusual...
...record. Four times in the past six years Negro Jim Herbert has romped off with this event. Last week he finished on the heels of two collegians: Georgetown's Hugh Short and Michigan's Bob Ufer. Short's winning time (1:10.2) equaled the world indoor mark...
Commenting on the fuel rationing Dr. Yaglou stated that it does not guarantee an indoor temperature of 65 degrees, but assures only a just and equitable share of the available supply. He stressed that the rationing plan does not assure the same degree of comfort in all homes unless home owners make every effort to reduce fuel needs by the use of insulation and by raising the efficiency of the heating plant...
...substantial victory in the sabre gave the Harvard a 15-12 win over Andover Saturday in the fencing rooms of the Indoor Athletic Building. Harvard's Otto Brosius sparked the 7-2 triumph, winning all three of his matches. Andover came back strongly in the epee, taking six of the nine bouts, but the Jayvees clinched the match with a 5-4 foil victory...