Word: track
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since October 1 these 22 guinea pigs have lived under a rigid training regimen. Assistant Track Coach Bill Neufeld has had them entirely under his control, and has given them about the same sort of training that middle distance runners undergo. However, there have been no restrictions on their diet...
...have a bunch of hypochondriacs on our hands if we examined all oarsmen every two weeks," he says. He stresses the intimate knowledge the coaches have of their men in all organized sports, such as track, crew, football, and swimming...
Seasoned turfmen smiled tolerantly. They knew Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was rich (rumor put his fortune at $20,000,000), was passionately fond of thoroughbreds, and had just bought a sizable interest in the old down-at-heels Pimlico race track outside Baltimore. But the prize he offered for his dream race was only $10,000, mere timothy to big U. S. stables.* Most racing experts did not give the Pimlico Special an outside chance to attain the prestige of a World Series or a Rose Bowl...
...already earned more money ($242,000) than either of them, had already broken the world's record for a mile-and-three-sixteenths. More important to sentimental, superstitious racing fans, the big bay colt was bred at nearby Walkersville, had always shown a fondness for the Pimlico track. There he turned his first big trick, when he won the Pimlico Futurity as a two-year-old. There he became the darling of Maryland by beating undefeated Johnstown in the Preakness last spring...
Meanwhile, in the U. S. the Amateur Athletic Union, in its November issue of Amateur Athlete, forecast for its track fans what to expect should the Olympics be held at Helsinki next summer. Reviewing the 1939 track year, the A. A. U. took the top six performances in each of 20 events, tabulated them (on a point system, of 10-5-4-3-2-1), and concluded that the U. S. -with a total of 209 3/10 points-still has the best track & field athletes in the world. Ranking second was Finland, with 108 points-34 points better than third...