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...enough, the result was another world mark: 8:03.7. The overwhelming U.S. team margin: 63 points, to Japan's 22. And still there was no stopping the Americans: in Osaka, in what was supposed to be a rest-up meet, the 400-meter medley relay team of Richard McGeagh, William Craig, Walter Richardson, and Clark set a new world's record...
Press Wireless officials were astonished by their brilliant coup. When sandy, slender Albert McGeagh landed in France with seven men and a mobile transmitter, he had no idea of bridging the Atlantic. His power was only 400 watts-little stronger than many a radio ham's shortwave outfit. He hoped merely to be first to get in touch with London, for relay to New York. But after a few tentative calls, Prewi's SWIF (Somewhere in France) got astounding news on its receiver: its signals were clearly pounding into the Prewi receiving station at Baldwin, L.I. Soon SWIF...
...yard run--Won by Chapman (Bates); second, Cobb (Harvard); third, Bullwinkle, (C. C. N. Y.); fourth, McGeagh (S. C.); fifth, Drake (Colgate). Time...
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