Word: sprint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gallant Fox, with Earle Sande up: the $70,000 Arlington Classic at Arlington Park, beating Gallant Knight by a neck after sneaking past Maya on the rail for a fine sprint down the stretch. Gallant Fox has now won $275,000-$38,639 less than the record of Zev, greatest U. S. money-winning horse...
...Navy crew, beating off a hard but belated sprint by California in the last quarter-mile: a triangular race on Lake Carnegie, with Princeton three lengths in the wash...
...then on, in spite of the very slow times, the Crimson could do nothing, and seemed without the slightest chance of placing. At the end, when Syracuse was tiring badly, the eight might have retrieved a poor second; but, if that was possible, it was not done. A good sprint served only to shorten a wide stretch of water; perhaps if it had been started sooner, Harvard could have passed the tired Orange boat...
...Freddie Spencer, retired U. S. bicycle sprint champion; a 20 mi., motor-paced race at the New York Veledrome. The time...
...University of Washington crew: its annual race with California, by a terrific sprint in the last 100 feet, in the rough water of Lake Washington, Seattle...