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...about the longest distance that a conditioned athlete can run in a single burst of full speed, it has long been the most important yardstick in U. S. track sports. European sprinters dash 100 metres (109.39 yds.). Successive generations of runners have succeeded, by study as well as sinew, in whittling down the yardstick infinitesimally. In 1906 the world's record for 100 yards was set at 9.6 sec. Last May Eddie Tolan, short, spectacled Negro student in the University of Michigan, ran 100 yards in 9.5 sec. in the Western Conference championships at Evanston, Ill. Last week...
Aged 22, 5 ft. 10 ¾ in., 155 lbs., slim faced, freckled, agile, Van Ryn is Princeton's pride. He was graduated last year. He will probably grow no taller and, because he is all smooth sinew, not much heavier. His service, smashes and forehand drives are orthodox and highly accurate. Last week in Brooklyn he revealed a new (for him) half-volley which frequently caught the aging Tilden flatfooted. In addition he has an aggressiveness nerve-wracking to the man across...
They sent him a card and told him he had to practise. He went back and labored the long miles. Hurry up! they howled. I stood by the boathouse and saw him weld nerve and sinew to sprint the last stretch. He crossed the line, and fell on the grass...
...business of the Manhattan Putnams is publishing. Major George Haven Putnam, 84-year-old son of the founder of the business, last week demonstrated that he does not lag behind his able nephew, George Palmer Putnam, or his grandnephew, David Binney Putnam, in exercising the sinew of publishing, publicity. When newsgatherers interviewed Major Putnam upon his return from a visit to England, he was ready for them with alarming news. He had never, he said, formally become a U. S. citizen. He was in the habit of voting in England as well as in the U. S. Further...
Finally he saw a flood of little square specks below. Flesh and sinew could hold out no longer. He dropped...