Word: relays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, one of Helene Madison's records was smashed and all the others had grown fragile. Lenore Kight swam 440 yd. in 5 min. 33.6 sec., or six seconds better than Helene Madison's fastest. Next day, she was anchor on the Carnegie Club Library Relay team that won the 880-yd. championship with a world's record of 11 min. 10 sec. She finished off her week by winning the 880-yd. championship, setting a new world's record for 800 meters...
...challenge for the America's cup next year: her fifth victory in a row, in the Royal Clyde Yacht Club regatta, with King George's Britannia second and Shamrock V a poor third; at Hunter's Quay, Scotland. ¶ The New York Athletic Club Relay team: four of their five races at the A. A. U. Championships, where Glenn Cunningham set a U. S. record for the 1,500 meter run; in Chicago. ¶ The New York Giants: a doubleheader against the St. Louis Cardinals; both games by 1 to 0 in Manhattan. The first game lasted...
...Philadelphia, at the 3Qth Penn Relay Carnival: Manhattan (McGeogh, Burns. Ryan, Crowley) won the 2½ mile medley relay in world's record time (10 min. 14 sec.) with N. Y. U. second, Cornell third. Joe McCluskey of Fordham won the 3,000-metre steeplechase for the third year in a row. Pennsylvania's Olympic 400-metre champion, Bill Carr, injured last month in an auto accident, watched Penn's one-mile relay team (Edwards, Schaeffer, Jones. Healey) run the second fastest race in Penn Relay history, with Yale second and N. Y. U., the favorite, third...
Stowell's points were made in the 150-yard back stroke swim in which he came in third. R. D. Fallon '33, captain of the Varsity, was shut out in both the 50 and 100-yard races while the relay team, composed of Fallon, George Wightman '34, E. P. Uarker '34, and B. S. Wood '33, failed to place in its event...
...Yale's track team: the eastern indoor intercollegiate championship: 32 points to 28 for N. Y. U.; in New York. N. Y. U., needing a second place in the mile relay to win the meet, failed when Sidney Shleffar, lead-off man, dropped his baton, lost 50 yd. going back to retrieve...