Word: straightaway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finals of the 200-metre dash next day, huge Ralph Metcalfe, Marquette University Negro, was favored to beat stubby little Eddie Tolan of Detroit, who had beaten him by two inches at 100 metres. Metcalfe started badly. At the head of the straightaway, 100 yd. from the finish, a white runner, George Simpson of Ohio, was in front. A yard behind him pounded Tolan. Behind Tolan was an Argentine, Carlos Bianchi-Luti, a stride ahead of Metcalfe. Tolan's horn-rimmed glasses were held on by white adhesive tape. He had a great white bandage at his left knee...
...Palo Alto, Calif, last week. Carr had his chance to find out what Eastman would do at 400 metres. Carr won a fast heat. Eastman won a slow one. In the final, Carr ran from an outside position. He slipped in behind Eastman at the turn, sprinted down the straightaway, won by six clear feet...
...black & pink, Jockey Fred Lane on the Walls horse and Jockey Wragg, riding Miracle, challenged at the same time. For an instant, the three horses were running head to head in an utter silence that had fallen when the crowd saw that Orwell had been left behind in the straightaway. April the Fifth crossed the finish first, less than a length ahead of Dastur, who was leading Miracle by a head...
...Shea got off to the quick start which is half the trick of winning a short race. Bill Logan, a Canadian, and Bernt Evenson, star of the Norwegian team which was favored to win most points in the Winter Olympics, cut in behind him.- Evenson streaked into the last straightaway three yards behind but Shea had shaved the last turn closer and drew away to win by 5 yd. In the window of the general store at Hanover, where Shea works his way through college by waiting at an eating club, a placard announced his victory. His time...
...Bayles crashed to death in his attempt to break the world speed record because of the collapse of a windhood of his own design. The pictures show the hood being driven into Pilot Bayles' face by the wind pressure during his power dive at the beginning of the straightaway. Presumably stunned by the blow, Pilot Bayles levelled off too quickly...