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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late releases reveal that the Kirkland Deacons are strongly entrenched in first place as the Houses have gone well past the half-way mark in the year's activities. The Deacons have amassed 8511/2 points as compared to second place Lowell's 7851/2. The Bellboys, however, are expected to close the 66 point gap this spring, but whether they can overtake the flying Deacons is another question...
...Whatever clash of personalities that may have occurred ... is beside' the mark. ... In all my dealings and association with Roy W. Howard [president and editor of the World-Telegram] I have found him kindly, generous and eminently fair...
...with the year's flashiest middle-distance man, swiftfooted Negro John Borican. The distance was 1,000 yards, for which Elroy Robinson set the world's outdoor record of 2 min. 9.7 sec. in 1937. Veteran Starter Johnny McHugh, who has been sending track men off the mark for over 30 years, after two false starts raised his shiny little pistol and fired. They were away...
...Illinois storekeeper, was only 13 when he headed West. He was equipped with a fish line, jackknife, agate shooter, $13, a strong will not to return until he was big enough to thrash his browbeating father. His adventures along the way might have been told by Mark Twain -capture by a mean reward-hunter, whose precocious daughter petted him, stole his $13; escape and recapture and escape again; apprenticeship to a kindly windbag who dyed Ray's hair black, stained his face, billed him in his medicine show as Little Yuma the Captive Child, kidnapped by hostile Sioux...
Misfortune overtook Jim Curwen in the 100 free-style. Coming into his turn at the halfway mark, he spun without touching the wall and had to return to make contact, losing two body lengths in the process. He turned on the heat for his final fifty but his qualifying time of 55.4 was too slow to place him in the finals. Yale Captain Johnny Good took the final in the fine time of 52.7, eclipsing the meet record of 53 flat set by Charlie Hutter last year, and thus ending his career in Payne Whitney Pool with his best time...