Word: peacock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Champions were entered in every event. Cunningham, San Romani, and Venzke were running the mile. Ben Johnson, Eulace Peacock, Marty Glickman, and Lawrence Scanlon were in the dash. The great Don Lash, who last year in the B. A. A. Games set a world record in the two-mile distance was running again, and was also reputed to be considering taking a crack at the mile record. All the starts were coming...
...yard dash was taken by Ben Johnson of Columbia. The two surprises of this event were the second place of Ken Clapp of Brown over Marty Glickman of Syracuse and the failure of Eulace Peacock to qualify for the finals...
...heat, these boys will have diffculty getting the lead at the start, let alone keeping it with such stars as Roderkirchen, O'Sullivan, and Carlsen running. Sorlien is also entered in the dash event. He and Bobbie Gammons '39 will have to beat Marty Glickman, Ben Johnson, and Eulace Peacock to win, and observers are not overly optimistic...
...JOHN R. PEACOCK...
...Even the site of the conference, the creaky old Willard Hotel, was inauspicious, for the Willard itself is involved in one of those labor disputes that greys the hair of the National Labor Relations Board-a dispute variously known as the "warm applesauce case" or the "case of the peacock china...