Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleanor Holm, who looks so much like a film actress that she has become one, kept her 220-yd. backstroke championship in a fraction of a second less than her own world's record of 2 min. 57.8 sec. Minnowy little Katherine Rawls of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-without Georgia Coleman, who turned professional last year, to bother her-ran off with the loft. spring board diving title, 132.44 points to Dorothy Poynton's 123.64. Less freckled than she was a year ago but just as versatile, Minnow Rawls broke her own world's record...
...hook from his soft mouth, if caught there), sound (dive straight for the bottom), double under the boat to cut the line, make a run to try to carry away your tackle. Famed for his prodigious jumps, the marlin has been known to "walk on his tail" 50 yd. When you have landed such a fish, you have something...
...mile swimming race held in the north lagoon of the Century of Progress, Chicago, in 21:12½, thus breaking the U. S. record (21:27) held by Cinematic Buster Crabbe. At the same meet, Leonard Spence of the New York Athletic Club lowered his time for the 440-yd. breast stroke event to 6:08.8. a U. S. record. A world record fell when Jack Medica, 18, University of Washington freshman, won the 880-yd. free-style race in 10:15.4, clipping 5 sec. from another of Buster Crabbe's records. ¶Frank Parker, 17, of Milwaukee...
...most surprising upset of the season, 58 points to Southern California's 54. Competing in the 29th Annual Interscholastic championships at Soldier Field the same day, Jesse Owens, Negro star of Cleveland's East Technical High school, tied the world's record in the 100-yd. dash; broke the interscholastic record in the 220; won the broad-jump with his third record...
Died. Osee Lee Bodenhamer, 40, one-time (1929-30) national commander of the American Legion; of burns suffered in an oil field near Henderson, Tex. when he, 150 yd. from the nearest well, set off a gas explosion by lighting a cigaret; in Shreveport...