Word: metered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several changes have been made in the schedule of events for the Italian track meet tomorrow, according to an announcement by the H.A.A. Especially noteworthy on the new time sheet is the fact that the 1600 meter medley relay has been placed after rather than before the 1500 meter...
This change will make it possible for Luigi Beccali, the Olympic start, to run in the relay after having made his bid for a world's record in the 1500. The new schedule lists the 100 meter run at 3.30 o'clock, the 400 meter run at 3.40 o'clock, and the 110 meter hurdles at 3.50 o'clock...
...addition to twirling off a perhaps record-breaking 1500-meter run in the Italian meet this Friday, Luigi Beccali, the Olympic champion, is planning to serve as anchor man in the medley relay. This gives the speedy Italian an additional 800 meters to run, 50 minutes after his bid for the blue pennant...
...moment later his quick laughter burst out again as the interpreter asked him how he liked this cold New England weather. "I am hoping for this Indian summer I have heard about," the interpreter translated. Most diplomatically the 1500-meter ace said that the Stadium track was "very good," and that Harvard was magnificent...
Beccali and his teammate, Umberto Cerati, 3000-meter start, were the head-line members of the Italian track team that began practice in the Stadium yesterday in preparation for Friday's international meet. Having the two at a disadvantage, the reporters were pumping them via the medium of Peter M. Riccio, a Columbia professor, acting as interpreter. The questions varied from a request to have Beccali name the greatest runner he had ever seen to a demand for Cerati's opinion of Joe McCluskey, the Fordham star, who is Cerati's strongest rival...