Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME erred in stating that the Queen Mary's promenade deck is 570 yd. around. Cunard White Star figures that approximately four laps around it make a mile. Length of Burghley's 58-sec. run was therefore approximately a quarter-mile, for which the world's indoor record is 49.6 sec. Not only was Lord Burghley handicapped by the sharp turns, but also by full evening dress: tails, stiff shirt, pumps...
...Cunard White Star Line, I would have been somewhat bewildered by the statement (TIME, June 8) of A. P. Herbert, Punch's M. P., that there is a plate on the promenade deck of the Queen Mary recording that Lord Burghley ran a circuit of the deck-570 yd.-in 58 seconds, "untrained and unchanged...
...world's record for 440 yd. is 46 plus seconds, and for 100 yd., 9.4 seconds. Let's assume that he ran the first 440 yd. in 46 seconds flat, and the next 100 yd. in an even nine seconds. He would then have covered 540 yd. in 53 seconds, leaving him three seconds to cover the last 30 yd...
...Ohio State's crack sprinter, Negro Jesse Owens: four events, one (100-yd. dash) in world's record time (9.4 sec.); at a track meet between Ohio State and Southern California that ended in a 7½-to-7½ tie; at Columbus...
...another terrific match the next day, he had lost to James Ferrier. It was Ferrier now who seemed entirely capable of taking the title back to New South Wales. Amateur champion of Australia at 22, a huge young man whose crude swing is capable of propelling the ball 350 yd., he had won most of his matches with disheartening ease. When he disposed of Alec Hill, who had beaten beefy Cyril Tolley in the quarterfinals, there was no one left between him and the title except Scotland's stylish Hector Thomson...