Word: yd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Weissmuller 100 yd...
Norelius 100 yd...
...yd., dash is all Miller and the 205-pound Harvard sprinter ought to lead Paulsen of Yale, and either Burns or Lundell of Harvard to the tape; the time to be around 9 4-5 seconds...
John Weissmuller, ferry-finned pool-plasher of the Illinois A. C., is swimming faster than ever before. Last week he leaped into the Miramar pool, Manhattan, lalloped nine times up and down, clipped 1 1/5 sec. from his own world's record for the 220-yd. dash by traversing the distance...
...Greek athlete, Pheildippides, ran from the field of Marathon to Athens, to gasp, before falling dead, that the Greeks had been victorious over the Persians. Distance: 26 mi., 385 yd...