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...whom he gave his initials mistook them for his first name. He was too shy to correct her. Before he left high school he had won the U.S. broad-jump title, run 100 yd. in 9.4 sec. The 100-yd. world record, set by Southern California's Frank Wykoff in 1930, has never been broken but it has been tied so frequently that until this spring it appeared closer than any other to a final definition of the speed of a human runner. The expectation of Ohio State's Coach Laurence Snyder that his most famed prot...
Married. Frank Clifford Wykoff, 24, onetime University of Southern California sprinter, joint holder of the world's 100-yd. dash record (9.5 sec.): and one Ethel Mae Richardson of Glendale, Calif.; in Glen- dale...
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...
What the people in the University of California's new Edwards Stadium hoped to see in the 100-yd. dash was the rubber race between Frank Wykoff of Southern California, intercollegiate champion in 1931, joint holder of the world's record (9.5 sec.) and Bob Kiesel, University of California sophomore, who lost one race to Wykoff this year, then beat him in the California Intercollegiates. Wykoff won both his heats with nonchalance, looking backwards for the last 30 yards. Kiesel, who had said he would not compete for a place on this year's Olympic team because...
...erect). Last week he ran the 220-yd. dash in 20.5 sec., beating R. A. Locke's 1926 world record of 20.6 sec. He ran the 100-yd. dash in 9.5 sec., tying the world record set by Negro Edward Tolan in 1929 and equalled since by Frank Wykoff and Emmett Toppino...