Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manila, Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, contested in track sports. Filipinos, nimble as brown beetles, led; the disgruntled Japanese strove to retrieve the honor of their country. Their coach, one Okabe, held consultation with his trustees, made whispered suggestions. Curious sleights began, to make the yellow athletes perilous. They were warned. Noto, a Japanese runner, fouled a Filipino in the 400- metre event, was ruled off the field. Forthwith, his fellow yellow ones withdrew from the meet, refused to return. Said F. H. Brown, Y. M. C A. Director of Physical Education in Japan: "On behalf of the Japanese delegation, I want...
...track forces from the two California universities, from Pennsylvania and from Yale, which will try for intercollegiate honors at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, today and tomorrow, are well balanced teams, that from Princeton is powerful in the weight events, that from Harvard fast in the long and short runs...
Robert Johnston Dunkle, Jr. '27, of Brookline, was appointed second assistant manager of the track team after a competition which ended last night. The second job was awarded to Sarell Everett Gleason Jr. '27, of Evanston, Ill., while Kenneth Belcher Harding '27 of Brookline, won the third position...
...London, one Prof. Thomas Waddington encountered a snail crawling along a railroad track, crawled after the small creature to observe its habits, was overtaken, after a brief study, by a London train. Both snail and professor were killed...
...Nottingham, England (onetime abode of Robber Robin Hood), three race-track bookies, with bags, brass nameplates, betting tablets, visited a golf course, took up a stand at the starter's tent, made an offer: "Five to one on the field." They were ousted...