Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donald Horn, Northwestern University swimmer; a new world's record (2:29.8) for the 200-yd. breast stroke; in the intercollegiate meet at Yale's new Payne Whitney Gymnasium...
...Pink Tipped, 8-year-old chestnut mare owned by Richard K. Mellon of Pittsburgh, ridden under top-weight of 162 Ib. by William Street who had never seen his mount till the morning of the race, take the last hurdle perfectly, outrun Hotspur II in the last 20 yd. to win in record time...
...Ralph Metcalfe, tall Negro sprinter of Marquette University : the 60-yd. dash in the Central Intercollegiate meet; at South Bend, Ind.; in 6.1 sec., 1/10 sec. better than the ten-year-old record set by Loren Murchison...
...fifth day the whaler Globe 5 sighted Captain Riiser-Larsen, his two companions and his stiff-legged dog and picked them up as they were being blown seaward on a chip of ice 100 yd. long, 50 yd. wide...
Against the wind on Miami Beach's championship La Gorce golf course, Ohio's three-time Governor James Middleton Cox, 62, who plays in the low 80's at Dayton's Miami Valley Golf Club, smote his ball true for a 230-yd. drive, holed it on his mashie shot for the first eagle two ever made on the 400-yd. 14th hole. At the 380-yd. 15th he put his iron second shot two inches from the cup for a birdie three. Club Professional Willie Klein stammered, "They were two of the best successively played...