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...time of 23.2 seconds for the 50-yard sprint in the Yale meet virtually assures him victory in this race. In the 100-yard event, too, his best time of 52.4 seconds will in all probability be the class of the field, notwithstanding the fact that Yale's star sprinter, Johnny Macionis will be entered...
...went the credit of setting so fast a pace that the winner set a new world record: 3 min. 49.9 sec. In the final track event a hawk-nosed, granite-jawed Syracuse junior, Edward ("Obie") O'Brien, furnished another thrill. When he went to Syracuse, he was a sprinter. Coach Tom Keane, developer of many a sterling quarter-miler, drew O'Brien aside, told him to forget sprinting, promised him instead the Olympic quarter-mile title in 1936. A narrow-shouldered runner whose slim legs give no clue to the drive they possess, O'Brien broke ahead...
...nestle on State payrolls if they work for their salaries. Just how hard Ohio State athletes work for their stipends was debatable. Governor Davey followed up his blast with a pious assurance that all were usefully employed. But Ohioans recalled that after Ohio State's great Negro sprinter, Jesse Owens, broke three world records, the House of Representatives quietly changed his status from page to honorary page at $3 per day in session...
...Brooklyn Handicap, he set a world's record for a mile and a furlong (1:48.2), beat both King Saxon, fastest sprinter of the year, and Omaha, winner of the Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Week later, in the Detroit Chal lenge Cup, he beat Azucar, winner of last winter's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap. Last week Discovery's job was the inaugural running of the Butler Handicap, at the Empire City track in Yonkers, N. Y., oldtime project of the late Grocery Tycoon James Butler. Many racegoers thought it would prove Discovery's hardest...
Speakers lined up by Dr. Goebbels to campaign for "My Leader" this week: Col. Oscar von Hindenburg; the Graf Zeppelin's Dr. Hugo Eckener; Wilhelm II's Nazi son Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm; German Olympic Games Heroes Hans Sievert (world's decathlon record holder) and Otto Peltzer (sprinter) ; Munitioneer Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. For the first time newsorgans announced that Adolf Hitler will speak not to the German people but to "his people...