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...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...
...spite of losing first and second place honors to Winthrop, a strong Dudley cross country team outran competition from the other Houses by a large margin in the annual meet held yesterday afternoon. The Commuters captured the title by a high standing in the lower brackets...
Then suddenly Al Winick intercepted one of Jack Eberle's passes early in the second half, and outran the whole Kirkland team to score standing up. Tommy Eliot's place kick fell short of the uprights, leaving the score...
Their other basic raw material is coke. With all by-product coke ovens working at capacity, many an oldfashioned, high-cost, beehive oven (once homes for the unemployed) was fired last week. Meanwhile the demand for coking coal outran the capacity of the steelmakers' "captive" mines, sent them into the commercial market. Result: the ailing soft-coal industry is headed toward 10,000,000 tons a week (its 1939 average: 7,800,000 tons a week), and many a factory manager began to think it might be a good idea to stack some extra coal in the yard just...