Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bonthron and Cunningham renew their rivalry, found that Venzke had learned the trick of sprinting at the finish, that Bonthron had lost it, that Cunningham was as fast as ever. When Cunningham broke the tape he was 2.6 sec. short of his record but he was first by 7 yd. Venzke, who had sprinted into the lead on the next to last lap, was second. Bonthron, in his first start of the season, was third by 20 yd...
...team won its 13 2nd consecutive dual meet, against Springfield College, 61 points to 16. Two nights later the team stretched its string to 133, against College of the City of New York. In New York, Yale swimmers were first in every event, second in four. In the 440-yd. swim, Norris Hoyt of Yale set a pool record...
...Angeles, one Robert Coy of Peoria, Ill., was hospitalized with swollen ankles after playing 459 holes in 39 hours over the 6,500-yd. golf course at Potrero (a record...
Swimming records are classified as to whether they are made over a long, short or 20-yd. course. There are swimming records for distances from 50 yd. up to a mile. There are records in yards and records in meters. There are world, national intercollegiate and association records, records for men, records for women. Each of the five swimming styles-free style, back stroke, breast stroke, medley and relay-has its own group of records. Because there are altogether 700 swimming records, hardly a swimming meet is held which does not break one. Accordingly, swimming enthusiasts were less than amazed...
...when many of his contemporaries are barely learning how-to swim. Son of a retired Miami butcher, Ralph Flanagan was discovered in 1926 at a newsboys' party, by Swimming Coach Steve Forsyth, who developed Katherine Rawls. By 1931, he had broken his first national record (1,650 yd. free style). He was on the Olympic team in 1932. In 1933, he won the 500-yd. national indoor free style championship against Seattle's famed Jack Medica. At the outdoor meet that summer, he scored 16 points singlehanded. After that he deserted Coach Forsyth, sank into oblivion. He joined...