Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donahue, the former Andoverian who has terrorized Exeter timber-toppers for years, ought to snip the 15.4 high hurdles mark. He has been consistently topping 11 feet in the pole vault. Oldfather and Nichols are the cream of Jaakko's distance men. They romped through the last lap together at Andover to finish the mile in 4:39. Saturday, with Oldfather out, Nichols distanced the field to win in 4:38 at Exeter. Against Yale he will run the mile just to pick up points, leaving the blue-ribbon to Oldfather if he can get it. Nichols will...
...overlook the fact that the accused were his principal backers for the U. S. Senatorial nomination. Whereupon he summoned the accuser to the brownstone executive mansion in Harrisburg, ordered Mr. Margiotti to shortcut his projected grand jury investigation and dump all the evidence in the Governor's ample lap. When the indignant Attorney General declined to do so, only naming the man supposed to have passed the bribe, Candidate Earle fired Candidate Margiotti. Out with him, by discharge or resignation, went two of his deputies, his publicity man, and his secretary, Miss Mary Jane Peach...
Harvard track experienced a spectacular victory and a considerable loss Saturday in the New England Relays when Captain Alexander Northrop ran the last lap of a winning 4:17.6 mile in a bare foot and when Torbert Mac-Donald, top Crimson sprinter, collapsed in the hundred with a pulled muscle...
...tournament in the afternoon was featured by Willie Kendall's 1:40 in the 150 individual medley. However, Coach Ulen detected a poorly-disguised flutter-kick in the Australian's breastroking and promptly disqualified him. Charlie Hutter combined track with swimming by clambering out of the pool after each lap and sprinting around the edge, in a futile effort to catch Kendall. He was hampered by a buoyant attire of three life-rings and two pairs of waterwings. The medley was the only scratch event, the others being run on a handicap basis...
Frank Coleman, swimming the 440, leafed for 14 laps, then stopped and asked, "Is Berizzi swimming an honest race?" Upon being told yes, Coleman sprinted madly, barely nosing out "Two-lap" Barker for second place...