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...height of more than 50 miles, but 'Poonsters last night were apparently unruffled at the prospect of Osborne's elevation. It was reported by one source within the 'Poon that Osborne would be dropped at the last moment and a dummy substituted. Osborne is a noted short-distance swimmer...
...Cambridge, Mass., Yale Swimmer John Marshall, a world record in the 440-yd. freestyle. Marshall's time: 4:31, 2/10 of a second under his own year-old record. Against 36 Eastern colleges the Yale team swam off with eight of 14 titles. ¶ At Chicago, Don Gehrmann, the Banker's Mile in 4:09.7, over FBI-man Fred Wilt. The show-stopper in the Chicago Daily News relays: the Rev. Bob Richards' pole-vault of 15 ft. 4¾ in., his highest yet, but still three inches short of Cornelius Warmerdam's world record...
...hard to see that a merely excellent swimmer should regret going to Yale, where the announcement of his name is greeted by boos from spectators who want to see the world record holders, the men Kiphuth is nursing for the national championship...
...most of the freestyle events, Yale is expected to dominate the 1500 meter race tonight almost to the exclusion of entries from the other 35 members of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference. For the second year in a row, there will be no Harvard swimmer in the only event tonight; Ted Norris won the event...
...college I.C.4-A meet. In the non-collegiate feature of the event, Don Gehrmann won his 39th consecutive mile, a whisker victory over FBI-man Fred Wilt. The time (for both): 4:08.6. ¶ In New Haven, Conn., Australia's (and Yale's) Swimmer John Marshall, to set a new U.S. record for the 440-yd. free style. Marshall's time for the 20-yd. course: 4:33.6, breaking Ralph Flanagan's 13-year-old record by 3.4 seconds. ¶In Twickenham, England, a French international rugby team over England's best...