Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Untypical U. S. athlete is Ohio State's junior, Jack Keller, whose 14 sec. time in the 120-yd. high hurdles beat Percy Beard's A. A. U. record of 14.2 sec. A John Galsworthy enthusiast, 6 ft. 3½ in. tall, gaunt and saturnine, he is married, has refused to join a college fraternity. As a high-school freshman he stood around watching Ohio State's Star Sprinter George Simpson but the track coach put him into the hurdles instead. Last week, after winning the high hurdles, he seemed on his way to a low hurdles...
...Bennett, 22, a red-headed sophomore who took up running in grammar school to cure lung trouble. Policemen saw him running in a Toledo park and chipped in to buy him his first track shoes. He is a "straight" runner (carries himself erect). Last week he ran the 220-yd. dash in 20.5 sec., beating R. A. Locke's 1926 world record of 20.6 sec. He ran the 100-yd. dash in 9.5 sec., tying the world record set by Negro Edward Tolan in 1929 and equalled since by Frank Wykoff and Emmett Toppino...
Also running with the wind was Iowa's gold-toothed George Saling. After Keller pulled a tendon in the 220-yd. low hurdles, Saling breezed on to tie the world record...
Ohio State won three major relay championships, lowered the carnival record by 1 sec. in the 480-yd. shuttle hurdle relay...
Ralph Metcalfe of Marquette equalled the world's record?9.5 sec.?in the 100-yd. dash...