Word: paddocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stamford Bridge, England, British women outleaped, outran, outthrew their French, Belgian, Czecho-Slovakian, Swiss and Italian sisters in an international track meet. World's records went splintering on every hand. Mary Lines, "Paddock Feminine," who starred for England in the first Women's Olympiad at Monte Carlo in 1922, won three events. Her countrywoman, Miss Trickey, won the 1,000-metre run. A French giantess won the discus throw and shot-put. Italy's alibi for finishing last was that four of her most active athletes were halted at the Italian border...
Fifth Day. Before the 200-metre sprint, Head Coach Lawson Robertson spat fire at his fleet charges, enflamed Scholz and Paddock so that they went blazing by Harold Abrahams (their extinguisher in the 100-metre race) and E. H. Liddell (the Scotch parson who had refused to compete in "the century" because it was held on Sunday...
Eleven starters competed for the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park. At 4 o'clock on a summery afternoon the bugle blew and 50,000 eyes turned to the gate from the paddock to watch the procession up the track. At the starting post Harry F. Sinclair's Mad Play, the favorite, Sande up, drew inside position. Up shot the barrier with a deafening roar from the stands as the horses simultaneously broke to a splendid start. Mad Play gained an immediate lead by saving ground in rounding the first turn. Hard pressed for the whole 1⅛ miles...
Famed among many famed young men at the Drake Relays, Iowa, was Charlie Paddock of Pasadena . In a downpour of rain, racing against three University of Iowa freshmen, he ran 100 yards in 93/5 seconds, unofficially equalling the world's record. True, he beat the gun by a fraction...
University track athletes will be pitted against some of the foremost stars in the country in the Knights of Columbus games at Mechanics Building tonight. Loren Murchison, sprinter from the Newark A. C.--perhaps the equal of Charles Paddock--L. R. Brown, former Dartmouth high-jumper and joint holder of the world's indoor record, and Lloyd Hahn, conqueror of the great Joie Ray in New York last Saturday, are a few of the more notable entries...