Word: runners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week one John Salo, plodding Passaic, N. J., policeman, reached Los Angeles, where he had pegged from Manhattan. His running had not been in vain, for he was winner of C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle's transcontinental bunion derby. In a burst of finishing speed, Runner Salo galloped 26 miles around Wrigley Field, while ten thousand Californians cheered, hooted, whistled. His cross-country time: 526 hr., 57 min., 30 sec. His winning purse...
Chippies. Among the more uncouth of the year's dramas was this tale of a girl's grim progress from an Ohio village to the bed of a Cleveland beer-runner. Out of a welter of cheap wheezes and smudgy local color comes the 'legger's cryptic decision to marry the girl. Thus made respectable, they return to Ohio, to find the coffin of the girl's tortured mother in the dim sitting room. Cullen Landis played the 'legger without retrieving the general exhibition of bad theatre and worse taste...
...Runner: "Well, it just happens they aren't there when we get across...
...Runner: "Oh, sure...
...sends down a well-balanced team for a dual meet. With only a few outstanding stars, the Indians will present strength in practically every event sufficient to pick up a few points all along the line. Jerry Swope leads the invaders as captain and as the best middle distance runner in this part of the country. As anchor man of the Dartmouth mile relay team that won the national title at Philadelphia last month, he stepped the final quarter in 48 4-5 seconds...