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...best of Cornell University's track athletes, a few years ago, was C. Curtis Woodruff Jr., sprinter. When he was graduated he went into the contracting business with his father in Forest Hills, Long Island. One warm evening last week he came home from work and began to play with his dog "Spot". The dog dodged behind a lilac bush, raced around the house; Sprinter Woodruff dashed after him. An hour later his father found his body crumpled on the floor of the garage, dead. The run had been too much for his heart...
Miller Best Sprinter...
...Tiger's best bet in the 100 but he seems slated to follow Miller to the tape if the latter continues to improve on the form he has shown' so far this year. If Coach Farrell decides to enter Miller in the 220 also the big Crimson sprinter ought to show his heels to the field again. If not Lundell and Rockwell will be out in front fighting for first honors...
...Moines, the track was sodden. They soaked the cinders in gasoline and touched a match, but it rained again. Undiscouraged, Roland Locke of the University of Nebraska, "fastest U. S. sprinter," leapt from his mark and fled to a tape 100 yards away in what the second-splitting watches said was 9.5 sec.?a magical tenth of a second less than 100 yards have ever officially been run. But there had been a brusque north wind at Locke's back. The record was doubtful. The other national feature of the meet: obliging Pole-vaulter Charles Hoff of Norway soared...
...Eaton, who holds the record of four and two-fifths seconds for the forty-yard dash, will be on hand to watch the stars of today take a fling at his title. Miller and Burns will go into the preliminary heats with Murchison, often hailed as America's premier sprinter, Hussey a Freshman at Boston College, who startled track circles last year by his performances on the cinders while still a schoolboy, Leconey, a member of the Olympic team two years ago, Clark, formerly of Johns Hopkins, and intercollegiate 100-yard titleholder, and Houben, the German star...