Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shot 50 ft. 3 in. For 51 years college athletes had tried in vain to better 50 ft. Last year Rothert's teammate, Eric Krenz, succeeded with a heave of 50 ft. 1 in. This year Rothert broke that record twice in one sunshiny afternoon. Krenz came second with 50 ft. 5/8 in. Captain Jimmy Reid of Harvard, intercollegiate title holder, ran two miles in 9 min., 22 sec., breaking a record set ten years ago by Cornell's Ivan C. Dresser. Southern California's Jesse Hill broad-jumped 25 ft. 7/8 in., another intercollegiate record. Yale...
Louis Meyer of Los Angeles, victor in 1928, was second. His fellow townsman, Bill Spence, described a tragic arc out of his Duesenberg when it slithered into a wall. His was the first Indianapolis fatality since the 1919 race...
Peter Arno, caricaturist (covers for the New Yorker), has a small daughter, Patricia. Last week she was vaccinated on the sole of her foot. Reason given by her mother, Lois Long ("Lipstick") Arno: ''Even if she becomes a second Lady Godiva, no one will think of finding a vaccination scar there...
...Conn., June 9--Morris Ruggles Brownell Jr. '30, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, was yesterday elected captain of the Junior University crew. A member of his Freshman eight and of the jayvees last season, he is now occuping the number 5 seat in the second Harvard shell...
...today and went for a four-hour cruise on the Sound in J. Pierpont Morgan's palatial steam yacht, "Corsair". Present plans here in the Crimson training quarters call for two time trials this week in an attempt to cut down on the 21 minute 27 second pace set yesterday over the four mile course...