Word: konno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbus. Ohio, Hawaii's Ford Konno, freewheeling free-style swimmer for Ohio State, set a new world record for the 220-yd. distance, 2:04.8, breaking the record set by Australia's John Marshall in 1950 by seven-tenths of a second. ¶ At Davos, Switzerland, Russia's Boris Shilkov became the first man from his country ever to win the European speed skating championship, edging Norway's famed Hjalmar Andersen, 198.058 points...
...prep schoolboy (Andover), he became the Olympic 1,500-meter champion. But from then on, Jimmy McLane spent a good part of his swimming time gulping the backwash of such stars as Japan's Hironoshin ("The Flying Fish") Furuhashi, Australia's Marshall and Hawaii's Ford Konno. It was not because he slowed down; the others just got faster...
Furuhashi lopped almost a minute off Jimmy's Olympic time (19:18.5) for 1,500 meters-roughly as good as running a mile twelve seconds faster than anybody had ever done it before. Furuhashi's "incredible" performances, later matched by Marshall and Konno, set up for McLane what he now thinks was a psychological barrier. "My main difficulty was that I had already gone as far as I could go. I started at the top." But he started all over again, in four years managed to cut half a minute off his time for the 1,500 meters...
Last week, after winning the 1,500, Jimmy came back to win the 220-yd. event in 2:07.2, just 1.7 seconds off the world record, then whipped the field at 440 yds. to join Marshall, Konno and Jack Medica as indoor triple-distance winners in a single A.A.U. meet. McLane figures that this is his farewell to swimming, and after ten years of competition he is not really unhappy about it: "In fact, it wouldn't break my heart if the Army stuck me in the Sahara Desert...
Ohio State won the team crown last year, with the Elis second, Michigan third, and Michigan State fourth. In 1951, Yale took first, Michigan State second, and Ohio State third. The Buckeyes' chances for a repetition of their victory have been reduced by the illness of ace freestyler Ford Konno, who won the 1500-meter, the 440, and was third in the 220 freestyle last year...