Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team (Edwards, Schaeffer, Jones. Healey) run the second fastest race in Penn Relay history, with Yale second and N. Y. U., the favorite, third. In Des Moines, at the 24th Drake Relay Carnival: Ralph Metcalfe, famed Negro sprinter of Marquette, after three days of outdoor practice, retained his 100-yd. championship (but failed to set the new record of 9.2 sec. he had hoped for), ran as anchor man on the Marquette team that beat Nebraska in the 880-yd. relay. Indiana's Big Ten champion hammer thrower, Noble Biddinger, set a Drake record...
...Katherine ("Minnow") Rawls, 15, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: championships in lowboard diving and the 300-yd. medley swim, with a new world's record of 4:14.4; at the Women's National A. A. U. Championships, in Buffalo. Other titleholders: Lenore Kight, 100-yd., 220-yd., and 500-yd. free style; Margaret Hoffman, 100-yd. breast stroke.; Joan McSheehy, 100-yd. back stroke; Dorothy Poynton, highboard diving...
That was a record beating for a West Coast crew. What happened on the Oakland Estuary last week, with 50,000 people watching the regatta, was a record revenge. Washington's freshmen won their race by three lengths. Then the junior varsity, four feet behind when 50 yd. from the finish, shot a length ahead to win as George Beinhorn, California's bow, lost...
...slight breeze was behind the boats at the start of the varsity race. Washington, pulling at 40 strokes a minute to California's 43, was a few feet ahead after 50 yd., a half-length at the half-mile, three lengths at the halfway mark, where both crews were stroking evenly in the low thirties, a mile and a half from the finish. Hopelessly outclassed, without even waterlogged seats for an alibi, California's crew pulled bravely on at a stroke that went up to 42 in the last half-mile. At the roaring, whistling finish, they were...
...Ononcock. Va., month ago, Harry Layfleld teed a golf ball, struck it with his mashie, made a hole-in-one on a 105-yd. hole. Within 30 days Golfer Layfield teed the same ball, struck it with the same mashie, sank his tee shot on the same hole...