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Main results of Ulen's tests showed that the value of oxygen for racing swimmers was negligible. However, since the principal effect of the gas in a pure form is to enable sprinters in the 50-yard free-style to hold their breath for the entire two laps, it was...
No sooner had the doodlebugs rolled out of their pits and roared across the starting line than the spectators were dramatically reminded of Indianapolis. Rounding the first of the 300 laps, Marshall Lewis' car skidded, overturned. Driver Lewis scrambled out unhurt. Later Johnny Ritter, smallest but reputedly most "heavy...
Doodlebugs first appeared in the U. S. in Los Angeles in 1919 when a group of rich youngsters built midget cars to race around the Junior College Stadium, but midget racing as a recognized U. S. sport is less than five years old. In 1932 a field of eight midgets...
¶ Herbert Mendelson's Notre Dame, with her Designer-Builder Clell Perry at the wheel: the Gold Cup, oldest U. S. Speed boat trophy; at the Detroit Yacht Club; with an average speed of 63,675 m. p. h. for three 30-mi. laps-a Gold Cup record.*
China and Spain have jockeyed for preferred position on the world's front pages for nearly a month, and up to last week China has had the upper hand. The Chinese war was a new upheaval; it burst squarely in the correspondents' laps; there was virtually no censorship...