Word: recording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. John Ennis, 87, of Stamford, Conn., oldtime contractor, Civil War veteran, walker, skater, swimmer, crack shot, boxer; of pneumonia; in Stamford. In 1910, he broke the transcontinental walking record, hiking from Coney Island to San Francisco in 80 days...
...near the Pacific?teemed one afternoon last week with running, jumping, lunging figures in short white pants and varicolored track shirts. At the Penn relays in Philadelphia, the Drake relays in Des Moines, the West Coast relays in Fresno, U. S. athletes had, thrice equalled one world's record, and broken...
...Field, it was exciting to see pompadoured, red-shirted George Simpson of Ohio State equal the world's100-yard dash record?9? sec.* In Des Moines four lean-legged youths named Trimble, Burkhardt, Rogers and Sentman, leaped over high hurdles for 480 yds. in shuttle relay, in world's record time of 1 min. 2 3 10 sec. Also in Des Moines, West Pointer Carl Jark, with mighty ventral effort, sailed his discus 158 ft., 3 in., another record...
...virtue of the Crimson's record, which is marred only by defeat at the hands of Union College, Harvard is favored to triumph over the Green twelve. Dartmouth has lost to the Army, to Pennsylvania State College, and to Pennsylvania University...
Although Captain Delaney of Holy Cross has the best record in the sprints, a field which includes A. E. French '29, T. E. Mason '30, and A. L. Watkins '31 should be anybody's race Harvard seems to have a pretty clear outlook in the longer runs and it is in these events that the greatest chance for victory lies...