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Thirteen and one-half hours after he started (average speed, 76 m.p.h.), Gianni climbed wearily out of his rakish speedster and waited for his brothers. The family did well: Gianni won and Vittorio was fifth. And Papa, after all, was pleased...
...Jethroe is my opening-day center-fielder," says Southworth of the 28-year-old East St. Louis-born Negro speedster who is being readied to play his first season in the majors. Southworth's positiveness stems from Jethroe's record with Montreal last season, where he broke the International League record by stealing 89 bases (seven less than Ty Cobb's modern major-league record of 96), batted a neat .326, second highest in the league...
...field of 31 horses paraded to the post at beautiful Flemington course. There were nearly 108,000 Australians on hand to watch, and most of the commonwealth's other 7,000,000-odd stopped everything-even streetcars-while they listened by radio. At the start, a lightly regarded speedster named Bruin tripped to the front in the muddy going. Bruin was still leading in the homestretch when three other horses charged up from behind...
Employing a T formation, Dudley is relying on speedster Dave Gilbert from last year's eleven and three freshman backs to baffle Dunster linemen. Defensively, the Commuters' Coach Barney Curtain has a light but fast line to work with...
Furuhashi and his teammates, barred from last year's Olympics, had not only swum away with most of the honors at the A.A.U. championship meet, they had also broken world's records right & left. Speedster Furuhashi had set most of the new marks...