Word: outran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite for the handicap, was unable to make an appearance because of an injured ankle. If the loyal Californians expected to see a second-rate race they had the surprise of their lives. For Owner Howard's second-best entry, an Argentine colt named Kayak II, not only outran his 15 rivals but set a new track record for a mile and a quarter-2 min., 1 2/5 seconds...
Coach Jaako Mikkola's one-mile relay team of Hobart Lerner, Joe Donnelly, Frannie King and Jim Lightbody outran relay combinations from Princeton and Yale to win the Big Three winter title in the time of 3:26 to provide the big spark for Harvard Saturday night at the New York Millrose games...
Northeastern's Frank Mascianica outran John Sopka '42 in the 600. Mascianioa's time was 1:19; Sopka's 1:21:4. The Northeastern man holds the New England record...
...chief interest in Biographer Pearson's own life is the period he spent as an officer in Persia during the War; he outstared and outran the natives, boasts of making tough army men eat out of his hand. Of main interest to the reader are his anecdotes of George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton, Frank Harris, Hilaire Belloc, Conan Doyle. The best of them-a sizzling dialogue, between Shaw and Chesterton, Frank Harris' belligerent interview with Galsworthy-are secondhand. Also among the secondhand are such random anecdotes as one concerning a friend of a friend who once found himself...
...Samuel D. Riddle's three-year-old race horse War Admiral, ridden by seasoned Jockey Charley Kurtsinger: the 47th Preakness Stakes, for a prize of $45,600; by a head, after a neck & neck drive against Jerome H. Louchheim's Pompoon, whom he outran by almost two lengths in last fortnight's Kentucky Derby; at Pimlico racetrack, Baltimore, Md. ¶ Marshall Eldredge, 36-year-old East Weymouth, Mass, mechanic: the tenth annual 130-mi. Albany to New York boat race, No. 1 event of the year for outboards; at 41.7 m.p.h.; in a Jacoby Flyaway Special...