Word: minning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meter run: Edwin Wide, Sweden, 8 min. 30 2-5 sec. ¶ 100-yard swim for women, free style: Gertrude Ederle, of New York, 1 min. 5 sec. ¶ 150-yard back stroke for women: Sybil Bauer, of Chicago, 2 min. 1 2-5 sec. ¶ 100-yard back stroke for women: Sybil Bauer, of Chicago, 1 min. 26 3-5 sec. ¶ 500-meter swim, free style: John Weissmuller, of Chicago, 6 min. 55 sec. ¶ 220-yard swim for women, free style: Miss Gertrude Ederle, New York, 2 min. 49 sec. ¶ 15-mile automobile racing on dirt...
...crowd of 150,000-the greatest throng that ever witnessed a sporting event in America-Tommy Milton, of St. Paul, won for the second successive year the 500-mile race over the Indianapolis motor speedway. Milton's H. C. S. special covered the distance in 5 hrs., 28 min., 6 sec., for an average of 91.4 miles an hour. He collected $35,000 for the victory. The mechanical surprise of the afternoon was a specially built flivver which finished fifth...
...mile relay: The team of Penn State was forced to a world's record of 7 min. 484/5 sec. in defeating Oxford in the Penn relays at Philadelphia...
Automobile racing on one-mile track: Jimmy Murphy at Fresno, Cal., all distances between 1 and 150 miles. Final time: 1 hr. 26 min...
Swimming: Gertrude Ederle, 220 yards free style, 2 min...