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...Nambu machine gun $300, or 6 quarts...
...currently functioning in the U.S. His records: 20.3 sec. for the 220-yd. dash (old record: 20.6 sec.); 22.6 sec. for the 220-yd. low hurdles (old record: 23 sec.); 26 ft., 8¼ in. for the broad jump (old record: 26 ft. 2½in., set by Chuhei Nambu of Japan in 1931). His tie: 9.4 sec. for the 100-yd. dash...
...jump takeoff board, just 2 ⅛ inches short of the world's record made in Japan four years ago by Chuhei Namb. His legs twinkled down the takeoff. He shot into the air like a brown bullet. When he landed he was f of an inch short of Nambu's mark but his 26 ft. if in. was a new U. S. record. Next day Owens won the 100-yd. dash in 9.5 sec., tying the meet record made in 1926. After two days of running, jumping and throwing, six meet records had been broken, the University...
...California.* He artfully persuaded his players who did show up that their parents would probably be less irate if they won. However the Japanese, including two former college linemen named Ping Oda and Ichiyafu, outplayed them for three periods. Then the Chinese team pulled itself together. Leong blocked Sim Nambu's punt on Japan's 8-yd. line, and Charley Hing slashed to a touchdown. Another blocked kick and Hing went over again. With the score 13-to-12 against them, the Chinese tried for extra point by a forward pass, Gunn to Got. Bill Got gathered...
...current Olympic Games have likewise been concerned with learning how to compete rather than winning prizes. Japanese skiers in the Winter Olympic Games last February amused Lake Placid school children by turning awkward somersaults over jumps and falling down even on the level. Except for Broad-jumper Chuhei Nambu who holds the world's record, Nipponese track athletes did not excel last fortnight except in courage. Schoichiro Takenaka finished the 5,000-metre two laps behind the field in a daze of exhaustion but refused to collapse until he had finished...