Word: sprinting
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...They sprint up long ramps and scale aisles like mountain goats to get to their seats on time. They start cheering with the first pitch and continue to the last. So far this year, heart attacks have hit twelve San Francisco Giant fans; five were fatal. Last week City Coroner Henry W. Turkel pleaded for rooters with coronary histories to take things easier at the Giants' new Candlestick Park. But no one seemed to pay much attention to the warning: the Giants were in first place in the National League, thanks in good part to a dour Negro named...
...giants of U.S. crew racing were on hand for the Eastern sprint championships on Massachusetts' Lake Quinsigamond. Undefeated were high-stroking Navy, powerful Pennsylvania, and a veteran Harvard boat that had won 13 straight over the last two years. Against that kind of company, the inexperienced Cornell crew seemed the rankest sort of outsider. Result: Cornell...
...championship sprint last weekend, Navy was favored to get off to an early lead with its power-stroking beat of around 40 strokes per minute, then fight it out at the finish with Harvard, which gets great drive from its rhythmic beat of 32. Instead, Cornell surged from the stake boats with a breathless beat of 41, moved ahead like a wide-open hydroplane. Once they had the lead, Cornell's ex-jayvees coolly dropped the beat to 31, understrok-ing even Harvard. Rowing against an 18-m.p.h. wind. Cornell held...
...first jersey Boyden had lost since high school, and he promised that he would win a Cornell shirt after the Olympic trials in July. But Cornell's Coach Sanford is just beginning to develop his young bunch. Said he: "We still have to learn how to sprint. I'm positive this crew of mine is far from its peak...
...Leading all the way, Pennsylvania's unbeaten varsity eight cut its way through Connecticut's choppy Housatonic River to leave Yale 2½ lengths astern, round into top form for its big race this weekend against unbeaten Harvard in the Eastern Sprint championships at Worcester, Mass., a race that should produce the favorite to defend the U.S. crew gold medal in the Olympics this August in Rome...