Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tape, Hampson fell flat on his face beside the track. He managed to stand up without help when the band played "God Save the King." Second to Hampson by a foot was Alexander Wilson of Canada, who had raced him stride for s tride over the last 100 yd. Third was Phil Edwards, Canadian Negro who used to run for New York University. Edwards had set the pace for the first lap, held on to save third place by 2 yd. from U. S. Champion Eddie Genung...
...finals of the 200-metre dash next day, huge Ralph Metcalfe, Marquette University Negro, was favored to beat stubby little Eddie Tolan of Detroit, who had beaten him by two inches at 100 metres. Metcalfe started badly. At the head of the straightaway, 100 yd. from the finish, a white runner, George Simpson of Ohio, was in front. A yard behind him pounded Tolan. Behind Tolan was an Argentine, Carlos Bianchi-Luti, a stride ahead of Metcalfe. Tolan's horn-rimmed glasses were held on by white adhesive tape. He had a great white bandage at his left knee...
...Jones Beach. A towheaded girl with a little boy's face and the torso of a minnow, 15-year-old Katherine Rawls of Miami Beach, Fla., surprised everyone a year ago by winning the national breast stroke championship at 220 yd. Last week in the Olympic Swimming Trials for Women at Jones Beach State Park. L. I., she surprised everyone again. Sure that she could qualify for the team with third place or better, her coach told her to take it easy in the 200-metre swim, save her strength for the diving that came later the same afternoon...
...Hallowell, a Harvard miler who was beaten in the intercollegiate meet, sprinted to over take him. Venzke matched Hallowell's pace for 20 strides then dropped. Two more collegians, Frank Crowley of Manhattan College and Glenn Cunningham of Kansas, closed in and passed Venzke in the last 60 yd. Venzke slowed down to a slow jog, finished fourth - too far back to make the Olympic team for which he had been training three years...
...villa at Celigny on Lake Geneva, wavy-haired Composer Ernest Schelling heard a woman scream. On the adjoining villa, occupied by young Robert Thompson Pell, press attaché of the U. S. delegation at the Disarmament Conference, servants ran about, wringing their hands, gesticulating toward a boat about 100 yd. offshore to which a woman was clinging while her screams became fainter. Composer Schelling raced into the water, swam to the boat, found Mrs. Pell in a bathing suit, unconscious, hanging head-down in the water. Her right leg was impaled on a sharp Swiss oarlock. Composer Schelling disengaged...