Word: relayers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the meet may be run off on schedule. All those who did not compete in the Yale meet on Saturday are eligible. The order of running events is as follows: 100 yd. dash; 440 yd. run; 220 yd. dash; 120 yd. low hurdles; 880 yd. run; and medley relay, consisting of two 110 yd. legs...
...California raisin growers as a promotion scheme, Raisin Day used to be a parade with floats, a cinemactor king & queen. This was replaced after 1928 by a track & field carnival started by Fresno State College in 1927. Chief characteristic of Fresno's annual West Coast Relays turned out to be a tendency toward individual performances so extraordinary that the meet's slogan became: "Where World Records Fall." This helped to make the meet the Pacific Coast equivalent of the East's Penn Relay Carnival at Philadelphia, the Midwest's Drake Relay Carnival at Des Moines...
...Mexican War in 1846 gave Publisher Abel a chance to prove his mettle as a fast newsgatherer. With a relay of telegraph lines, railroads, steamboats, stagecoaches and "60 blooded horses," the Sun brought news of the capture of Vera Cruz to President James Knox Polk before his own War Department heard about it. With speed in harvesting news, Publisher Abell also wanted speed in printing it. and to this end, he and his Philadelphia partners were first to use the Hoe cylinder press.* Next great progressive step of the Sun was its Iron Building, put up in 1851, first office...
Afternoon Events: 1:30--high jump; pole vault; javelin throw. 2:30--120 yard high hurdles; shot put. 2:40--880-yard run. 2:45--discus. 2:50--100-yard dash. 2:55--two-mile run. 3:00--hammer throw. 3:10--relay heats. 3:15--broad jump. 3:30--220 low hurdles. 3:40--one mile run. 3:50--440 relay finals. 4:00--one mile relay finals...
Bill Feiler, took the two-mile race by 50 yards, with Wisconsin's Lloyd Cooke second; then climaxed his day and Drake's by anchoring Drake's distance medley relay team to its first relay victory since...