Word: sprinted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admirers in the galleries showered their favorite racers with bunches of roses, lillies, Cattleya orchids. Less gallant spectators munched hot frankfurters or stretched themselves at length and snored sottishly till wakened by the shouts that meant a sprint, a jam or a tumble. Georgetti, the Italian, blew out a tire, catapulted to the track. "He is dead," an individual in a plaid suit asserted solemnly. Georgetti was already riding on. Four riders went down on a corner. One did not get up. It was Bobby Walthour. He had broken his collarbone...
...present, future, became only a) chain-driven wheel rotating under the arena roof. Who could tell tomorrow from yesterday? Not the pedaling juggernauts. For all they knew, Time had reversed its gears and left them to pump on and on into the past. Douglas Fairbanks offered $200 for a sprint; Mary Pickford's starry gaze followed a little wearily the incessant circlers. A bronzed well-dressed little man kept jumping up and down in his seat. It was Theodore Roosevelt, back from hunting the Ovis poll. He studied his program and laughed at some of the names. Were Grimm...
...high lights of the competition will be the 70-yard sprint event in which Miller will also certainly clash with Frank Hussey, holder of the National A. A. U. 100-yard title who will compete for Boston College. The Crimson sprint star has bested the Boston College flyer consistently this season in the shorter dashes, but Hussey comes fast after the 50-yard mark and has been clocked in close to record time in this event. He has been trained carefully this season and has just reached the top of his stride...
...event of the evening, as far as the pubic goes will be the 40-yard dash for the Major Briggs trophy. It will combine the stars of all the sprint events in the K. of C. and Millrose A. A. games. Milland and Burns will try their luck against the collection of the world's greatest sprinters. Coach Farrell says of Miller's performance in New York Thursday night against a fair representation of these stars, "There was no daylight to be seen between Miller and Murchison at the finish of the dash at Madison Square Garden Thursday night. Murchison...
...Sprint Mark Is In Danger...