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...Negroes James LuValle and Archie Williams, in the 400-metre race. ¶ Negro Cornelius Johnson who arrived one hour late for the high jump, found the bar at 6 ft., 7 in. Taking no time to practice, he zoomed over it with ease, went on to win a triple jump...
...current state of Florida East Coast. The road's immediate problem is the Key West Extension, 40 miles of which was completely wrecked by the hurricane that howled over the Florida Keys last autumn (TIME, Sept. 16). Since then not a train has run south of the mainland jump-off station of Homestead. The road estimates that nearly $3,000,000 is needed to replace spans and causeways with steel structures, $1,800,000 to do it with wooden trestles. Another $500,000 is needed for other hurricane damage. "After making inquiries of bankers and officials...
...Jubilee in Manhattan began on the next-to-last night with the finals of the international individual jumping championship for military mounts. Eight jumpers out of 15 had astonishingly come out of the first round with perfect scores. Since some of them probably could do as well in the jump-off, it was stipulated that performance plus speed would decide the winner. That gave the U. S., the Irish Free State and Czechoslovakia, with two finalists each, a theoretical edge over Sweden and Canada which had only one. A team with two men in the finals could send one careful...
...Jump-Off. On the tenth day, trial balloon observation showed that at 33,000 ft. the wind velocity had dropped, although dust haze hung high in the Himalayas. The expedition's leader, Air-Commodore Peregrine Forbes Morant Fellowes, who had led the party on its hazardous 25-day flight out from England and who won a bar to his D. S. O. in 1918 by bombing the Zeebrugge Lock gates from a nonchalant altitude of 200 ft., took the Puss Moth up once more at 5:30 a. m. for observation...
...this occasion, she was probably not as good as the old horse would have been; she made three faults on one circuit of the ring and the German team won the event with nine faults; Poland and the U. S. tied for second with 9½. In the jump-off for undisputed second place...