Word: runners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jaakko urged all those who attended to run in the winter or spring to come out for fall track, especially if they were quartermilers or over. He went so far as to say it was almost essential for the distance runner to build himself up early in the year, and also emphasized the advisability of the sprinter working on speed and stamina during the autumn...
...insurance, travels in better cars, wears better clothes. He was third-best amateur in the 1929 U. S. Open second-best in 1930, best in 1932 and again this year. In 1933 he won the Open against a held of crack professionals. In the U S Amateur he was runner-up in 1932 and a semifinalist in 1935 and 1936, but never won it. Last week he seemed overdue...
...checkered flag as he rolled across the finish line first to win the U. S. championship, a silver trophy, a diamond-set gold medal and a four-year scholarship to any State university he might select. He promptly announced that he would go to the University of Minnesota. Runner-up Kenneth Richardson, 12, of Detroit and John Sigmans, 12, of Bethlehem, Pa., who came in third, each won a Chevrolet coach which they are too young legally to operate. Coaster Ballard then went on to win another silver trophy by defeating the foreign champion, 16-year-old Danie Wege...
...once Congress politicians take office they will end by trying to make the Constitution work, rather than by continuing efforts which would wreck the Constitution and cost them their lucrative jobs under it-this bait having thoughtfully been provided by far-seeing Sir Samuel Hoare, today Home Secretary and runner-up for the Prime Ministry...
...German Davis Cup tennis team, headed by Baron Gottfried von Cramm, this year's runner-up at Wimbledon: the European Zone final matches against Czechoslovakia's team; in Berlin. Germany this week plays the U. S. for the right to meet Great Britain, Davis Cup defender, in the challenge round. C. Elroy Robinson, of San Francisco's Olympic Club: the half-mile run at the World Labor Athletic Carnival on Randalls Island, N. Y.; in 1 min. 49.6 sec., breaking Ben Eastman's accepted world's record...