Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope for the best at Houston." Mobile, Ala., threatened to waylay the Walker train if he did not stop there. Other eager cities were Winston-Salem, Montgomery, Birmingham. In New York, Candidate Smith pursued his policy of prayerful silence, hoping that Northern Negroes would understand why none of their race can be taken to Houston as delegates; hoping that the South will not mind if National Democratic Chair-man Clem L. Shaver should be ousted and replaced by Mayor Frank Hague of Jer sey City; hoping people noticed, last week, that John William Davis said: "Al Smith ... is highly acceptable...
Soon after this, Fletcher of Harvard tied the world time in the 45-yard high hurdles. He gained the added distinction of being the second man who has ever tied the record twice in one day, for he had covered the distance in his trial race in the same time...
...Tibbetts '26 is perhaps the greatest of Crimson two-milers and distance men. A lean, wiry, middle-height individual, with a smooth untiring stride, he has run some of the finest races in Crimson track history. In the Triangular meet of 1925 he was destined to score the fourth new record. He came up against the widely heralded entry from Hanover, Osgood, who had smashed the Dartmouth record a week before, and against Craig of Cornell. The race turned out to be one of Tibbetts against time, in which the former won by 11 2-5 seconds...
...yard run, which he navigated in two minutes 20 and two-fifths seconds. He repeated in the mile run scoring a well-planned vcitory Watters beautiful drive into second place in the 1000-yard run was no less remarkable. Captain Tibbetts ran a beautifully timed two mile race, Luttman of Harvard coming in second, and Pond of Cornell third. The time was ten minutes and four-fifths seconds...
...Harvard's finest relay teams participated in the meet, taking first place from Dartmouth while Cornell trailed. It was composed of J. H. Broome '26, Lundell, Rogers, and Kane, Kane was the bright particular star of the race, staging a beautiful performance after having broken his own Triangular record...