Word: outran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slalom, the U.S. team had an overwhelming favorite: bespectacled, oak-legged Marilyn Shaw, 17-year-old daughter of the owner of the general store at Stowe, Vt. At 15 she outran a crack field that included famed Betty Woolsey, once ranked among the world's first ten woman skiers. Last year Miss Shaw waltzed off with the ladies' U.S. slalom championship...
...Belmont Park last week, New York race-goers saw two records broken.. In the Jockey Club Gold Cup, Louis Tufano's three-year-old Market Wise, who raced last fall as a cheap selling plater, outran mighty Whirlaway, skimmed two miles in 3 min., 20 4/5 sec. to break by a full second the North American record set by the great Exterminator in 1920. Four days earlier, in a match between two of the outstanding two-year-olds of the year, Mrs. Albert Sabath's Alsab, in beating Ben Whitaker's Requested, ran 6½ furlongs...
...Blonde), who ran away with the rich Santa Anita Derby last February. At 8-to-1 were Texan Robert Kleberg's Dispose, big horse of Florida's winter season, and J. Frederick Byers' Robert Morris, a 200-to-1 shot in the winter books-before he outran half a dozen older horses in the Excelsior Handicap at Jamaica last fortnight...
...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 (26 miles, 385 yards...
...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...