Word: mins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money only four times in 42 starts. Then, as the crowning achievement of a storybook career, the patched-up cripple, after a year's retirement, came back last March to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, won it in the record- breaking time of 2 min., 1⅓ sec., and boosted his lifetime winnings to $437,730, highest in turf history...
...Americans dared compete. Favorite was little Gerard Cote, 27-year-old newsdealer of St. Hyacinthe, Que. Cote, recently voted Canada's No. i athlete, weighs only 128 lb. Three years ago, he won the International snow-shoe marathon in the record-breaking time of 1 hr. 3 min. 46 sec. Last year, without snowshoes, he outran America's best distance runners in both the Boston Marathon and the National A. A. U. Marathon. His time for the Boston run set a new world's record of 2 hr. 28 min. 28 sec. for the marathon distance...
...when Snowshoer Cote set a new world's record, the thermometer registered 10° below zero-and he crossed the finish line with partially frozen feet and knees. Last week it was warmer, and Cote was in less of a hurry. His winning time: 1 hr. 15 min...
Tumbling only at the last two gates on the Dollar Mountain slalom course, pert, pear-faced Cinemactress Claudette Colbert skied off with first-place honors in Class A in Sun Valley's first guest slalom race of the season. Her time for the 1-mile track: 1 min...
Missouri's John Munski: the Tobin Mile, feature race of Boston's third annual Veterans of Foreign Wars track meet; curtain raiser of the 1941 indoor U. S. track season; in 4 min., 14.4 sec.; before a crowd of 5,000; at the Boston Garden. Munski, winner of last fortnight's outdoor Sugar Bowl Mile at New Orleans, outran among others Chuck Fenske and Gene Venzke, last year's headliners. Twice last winter Fenske ran a mile...