Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur Duffey was not "a minor but revered West Coast cop dodger" (TIME, Jan. 29), but one of our greatest sprint champions and a highly respected amateur athlete...
...second offensive started early is the third period when Cowen again broke loose for a 40 yard sprint down to the B.C. 27. A. Navin to Coulson pass was ruled complete due to interference Navin battered through the B.C. tack's to the 7. Cowen promptly plunged over for the score. The extra point was added by Garrity...
...sedan through the city and across Golden Gate Park toward the University of California Hospital; in the back seat was his expectant daughter, Mrs. Ernst Ophuls, comforted by Mrs. Lapham. He got to the hospital's emergency exit in jig-time, only to find it locked, had to sprint up a flight of stairs to get the gate opened, then went off in search of hospital attendants. The stork won the race: when His Honor returned to the car, he found he was a grandfather for the tenth time...
...Zimmer carried to the 35 and on the next play Dick Bailey, sprint star from Exeter, gathered in a Zimmer pass on the Kirkland 40 and went down the right sidelines to score standing up for the only score of the afternoon...
...week at Kansas City. Unbeatable in middle-distance swims, the 18-year-old San Franciscan won, as expected, the Women's National A.A.U. 400-meter, 800-meter and 1,500-meterfree-style championships. But she also defeated National Champion Brenda Helser of Portland, Ore. in the 100-meter sprint. Already it was being said that Ann Curtis, first U.S. girl to break a world record in 15 years (she has broken both the 880-yd. and 800-meter free style), is the greatest freestyler ever developed in the U.S.-perhaps anywhere. She is classed with Helen Madison, Katherine Rawls...