Word: sprinting
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...amateur girl swimmer in the U. S. Last year Lenore Kight, a pretty, dark-haired husky girl from Homestead, Pa.,* won four of Miss Madison's titles. Last week, Miss Kight successfully defended three of her championships, helped her team win the 880-yd. relay, but in the sprint which meant most ? 100-meter free style ? she came in second...
...apparently slowed him down. In two starts this year he had not come within ten seconds of his best time. Bonthron, in a year of running against the best milers in the U. S., had broken the record for 1,500 meters, learned exactly how to time his finishing sprint...
...Leach of Oxford, Vipond of Cornell&151;set the pace for the first two laps. Then Lovelock took the lead with Bonthron close behind. Knowing Bonthron wanted him to set a fast pace, Lovelock set a slow one. When. 130 yards from the tape, Bonthron started his sprint, Lovelock was ready for him. He sprinted too, turned his head at the finish to watch Bonthron cross the line a good yard and a half behind him. Said Bonthron: "I didn't run as fast as I planned to. I just didn't feel like it." In the half...
...pockets of their sleeveless sweaters. At meal stops they are handed knapsacks of food & drink to consume en route. The Tour de France is marked by few grisly spills such as punctuate the Madison Square Garden grinds. As a rule the riders bowl along in a good-humored cluster, sprint near the end of the run for the daily prize money. On the windy seacoasts they take turns riding on the windward side of the pack. One race was so swift and grim that after the finish a rider was reported to have bought a train ticket over the route...
...lissier, Lapébie and Speicher are sprint specialists. Best climber in the race is Vicente Treuba, "Le Roi des Montagnes,'' a minuscule Spaniard who propels his 110-lb. body up the steepest slopes without leaving the saddle...