Word: sprinters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beat Percy Beard's A. A. U. record of 14.2 sec. A John Galsworthy enthusiast, 6 ft. 3½ in. tall, gaunt and saturnine, he is married, has refused to join a college fraternity. As a high-school freshman he stood around watching Ohio State's Star Sprinter George Simpson but the track coach put him into the hurdles instead. Last week, after winning the high hurdles, he seemed on his way to a low hurdles record when he pulled a leg tendon...
Entirely typical is Ohio State's sprinter Donald Bennett, 22, a red-headed sophomore who took up running in grammar school to cure lung trouble. Policemen saw him running in a Toledo park and chipped in to buy him his first track shoes. He is a "straight" runner (carries himself erect). Last week he ran the 220-yd. dash in 20.5 sec., beating R. A. Locke's 1926 world record of 20.6 sec. He ran the 100-yd. dash in 9.5 sec., tying the world record set by Negro Edward Tolan in 1929 and equalled since by Frank...
...whose endurance or perverse courage has earned him the banal distinction of being called an "iron man." NcNamara has been the iron man of bicycle riders for 15 years. Grown somewhat rusty with age, he is still able to keep up with the field when teamed with a good sprinter. He enjoys six-day races, voiced no intention of retiring after completing his 77th last week...
Harvard interest in the dashes centers on Hawes, fleet sprinter, who is rated high as a contender in the 40-yard event. For a team participation event, followers of the Crimson runners will have a chance to see Harvard's mile relay quartet, composed of Dodge, Hallowell, Pearson, and Record, traverse the boards against the Yale runners. In the two-mile relay event it seems likely that Barrier, Rosen, Robert Murphy and White will be selected to race...
...leave little question as to the outcome, the visitors will have in Bourne of McGill a swimmer who should cause a good deal of trouble in several events. After breaking the local records in the 220 and 440 Saturday night, he took the 100 from Lewis, Brown's star sprinter, who was barely edged out in this race by B. S. Wood '33 during the Harvard-Brown meet...