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...Their total time for the 500-mi. course was 48 hr. 4 min., but they had been fresh enough to do the final lap of 26 mi., in the fast time of 2 hr. 18 min. 40 sec., 4 min. 50 sec. ahead of the U. S. team of Joie Ray and Johnny Salo. Marathon followers took due note of the victory, recalling that small, wiry Gavuzzi had run two years ago in C. C. Pyle's Bunion Derby and had done well enough...
...Manhattan, Joie McCarthy, 5, fell 50 feet, lost two teeth, laughed...
...attending this revue will mean your second or third visit, it may not be all that past memories lead you to expect. For from our carefully amassed comments of theatregoers we find it reported that there is too much sameness in the productions. There is less dash; the joie de vivre seems to have worn...
...gentle as a deer and as ugly as a monkey, little El Ouati, the Algerian Marathon runner who won the Olympic race at Amsterdam last summer came to the U. S. in order to race for Promoter Bill ("Easy") Pickens. Last fortnight in Manhattan, he ran against Joie Ray whom he had beaten, by a last minute sprint, at Amsterdam; with frightened looks behind him and a low scooping stride. El Ouati beat Ray for the second time by seven laps. After this race it was planned to send El Ouati and Joie Ray on a tour...
...obscure also-ran, jugging along in tenth place, eighth place. Suddenly word reached the stadium that a dark little man was passing the leaders as if they were standing still. He crossed the finish line smiling and almost fresh, 150 metres ahead of Miguel Plaza, news vendor from Chile. Joie Ray of the U. S. finished fifth...