Word: tolan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last five years athletes like DeHart Hubbard, Eddie Tolan, Ralph Metcalfe, Ben Johnson, Eulace Peacock have made it apparent that Negroes can jump farther and run short distances faster than whites. Last week onetime Yale field Coach Albert McGall suggested a reason which sounded more likely than those usually proposed by his confreres: in Negroes, os calcis (heel bone) juts out farther at the back of the foot than it does in whites, gives them better leverage...
Named Athlete-of-the-Year by 52 votes of U. S. sportswriters in an Associated Press poll was Golfer Gene Sarazen, U. S. and British Open champion. Second with 36 votes was Tennist Ellsworth Vines; third with 33, Sprinter Eddie Tolan...
...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...
Relays. Californians were appalled when Frank Wykoff of Southern California, Bob Kiesel of the University of California and Hector Dyer of the Los Angeles A. C. were shut out by Tolan, Metcalfe and George Simpson in the Olympic trials. With Emmett Toppino of New Orleans, Wykoff, Kiesel and Dyer formed a "goat" relay team which last week set an incredibly fast world's record (40 sec.) in the 400-metre final, with Germany second. In the 1,600-metre relay Bill Carr led in the British anchor man, Lieut. Godfrey Rampling, by 20 yd. The world's record...
Granted to TIME of that date: the implication that the coast is superior; the East, excellent in track material. Not granted: the implication by omission that the Midwest is lacking in such talent (notwithstanding that tiny blurb about the fast-fading Eddie Tolan of Michigan...