Word: sprint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tomorrow against perhaps the two best crews on Eastern waters. Penn and Navy, with tech rowing by invitation but ineligible for the Cup, will line up alongside the Crimson shell and during the nine minutes that follow the stomach-twisting words "Are you Ready. Ready All. Row!", the unofficial sprint championship of the Eastern States will be won, as well as the Adams trophy...
...last minute sprint eked out a half-length victory and the House championship for the Lowell boat yesterday afternoon. The Bellboy blademen will pack up their shell and trek to Derby on Friday to match oars with Saybrook, the Eli Intramural champs...
...speak of our "tiny university's (fulltime students: 1,248) huge stadium." If your man was disappointed in the showing of the Eastern athletes, why didn't he say so? And incidentally his story of the Pennsylvania carnival was built around the performance of a sprint relay team from Texas and two boys from Ohio State, a member of the Western Conference. Small wonder, is there not, in being unable to write about any of your effete Easterners...
...meet went to Ohio State's Charles Beetham, anchor-man in the two-mile relay, who ran his half-mile in an amazing 1:52.5, came from third place 20 yards behind the pacesetter to finish 20 yards in the lead. Negro Jesse Owens won the sprint medley for Ohio State by dodging through 13 other runners, passing six, giving his anchor-man the opportunity to beat Pennsylvania's smooth-striding Gene Venzke. Next day Sprinter Owens won the 100-metre dash, the broad jump...
...will provide the first real test of the Crimson navy. Much hard work with many time trials has gone far to advance the 1936 shell over its immediate predecessor, but it still remains to be seen whether or not Harvard's first eight will have regained some of the sprint racing punch it lacked so markedly last spring...