Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema contract that led to a crumb part in one picture and to marriage with Crooner Jarrett. Most of the other names and faces at Chicago last week were familiar-Anne Govednik of Chisolm, Minn., muscular and bright-eyed, who held the U. S. outdoor record for the 100-yd. breast stroke; Dorothy Poynton. a platinum blonde from Los Angeles with a wide, toothy smile and a penchant for fancy bathing suits; tiny Katharine ("Minnow") Rawls, the boyish freckle-face from Miami Beach who won her first U. S. championship in 1931, when she was 13. From four nights...
...Walter Spence of the New York Athletic Club's championship team: his first world's record (1:22.8 for 150-yd. free-style), made at the National A. A. U. indoor swimming meet; at Columbus, Ohio. Walter Spence won also the 100-and 220-yd. free-style races; his brother Leonard won the 220-yd. breast stroke and 300-yd. medley...
...time in the last eight years; with 30 points to Southern California's 19, Yale's and Washington's 15; in Ohio State's $325,000 white ceramic-tiled pool; at Columbus. Jack Medica, University of Washington sophomore, won three individual championships (1500-metre, 220-yd. and 440-yd. free-style), set a new world's record (4 min., 46.8 sec.) for the 440-yd...
...Glenn Cunningham, famed Kansas miler, a 1,000-yd. run at Hamilton, Ont., setting a new Canadian record. Glenn Cunningham, a mile race at Indianapolis; from Ray Sears who fortnight before made a new American record for two miles...
...George Kojac, N. Y., a backstroke swimming race, making new world records for 440 yd. and 500 yd.; at Rutgers. Miss Lenore Kight, Homestead, Pa., a free-style swimming race, making new world records for 440 yd. and 500 yd.; at Boston...