Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continued to win the field events and lose the track events, with few exceptions. "Our boys are overtrained; the Amsterdam track is slow," said U. S. coaches. The London Evening Standard seized upon this situation, an opportunity to run a story attributing the sad plight of U. S. runners to the eating of too much ice cream...
...Metre Run. Won by Ray Barbuti of the U. S. 47 4/5 sec. Before the race he drank a cherry eggnog. At the finish he dived into the tape, sprawled upon the cinder track, was severely cut. But that was the way in which he conquered James Ball of Canada by an eyelash...
First Places in the men's track and field events were captured by the U. S. 8; Finland, 5; Canada, 2; Great Britain, 2, France, Ireland, Japan, South Africa, Sweden...
...symbolically-minded said it was practically foreordained that oft-rescued Claret should rescue the distrait Courtney. Impalpable ministers of safety and service hover about the master of the Minnewaska. To accomplish this feat of systematic searching the ship was diverted 341 miles from its track. The Atlantic Transport Company wirelessed the Captain, "You were fortunate to carry out rules of sea and save souls, no matter conditions." The plane was not saved...
Engaged. Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley, 23, famed hurdler, member of the British Olympic track team this year, descendant of the first Baron Burghley, Queen Elizabeth's Secretary of State; to Lady Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott, sportswoman, inheritor of a 400-year-old title; of London...