Word: maiola
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...metres-after that it was just too bad." Not greatly surprised at his failure, the Duke enjoyed himself at Cincinnati, as he usually does, by clowning about in the water, spurting mouthfuls of it at the sides of the pool. When two other Hawaiians, the Kalili brothers, Manuella and Maiola, won their heats, he said: "That tickles...
...Next day Maiola Kalili finished third in the final heat, behind Ray Thompson of Annapolis and Al Schwartz of the Illinois athletic Club, who won. Clarence ("Buster") Crabbe won the 1,500-metre free style race; but spies from the Japanese Olympic team, who sat peering at the meet and scribbling in note books, wrote a long description about a freckled 14-year-old Floridian, Ralph Flanagan, who finished a close second. Crabbe won the 400-metre free style two days later, in better time than the Olympic record...
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