Word: yd
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...Credit River, a meandering, graceful hazard, winds through twelve of the 18 holes at Mississauga Country Club where the Canadian Open golf championship was played last week. Otherwise, it is not a difficult course, a little shorter- 6,545 yd.-than most links selected for big tournaments. The contestants were less worried by the course than by each other. It was probably the best field of crack golfers that has ever competed in the increasingly important Canadian Open -which has not been won by a Canadian since...
...weight throwers who will foregather again in the final Olympic trials at Los Angeles next year. Among them were: Frank Wykoff, Los Angeles sprinter, who was recovering from a horse-kick during last year's championships, who has unofficially surpassed the world's record for 100 yd. (9.5 sec.), who has not been beaten in four major meets this year; Patrick J. McDonald. 52-year-old, 350-lb. Manhattan policeman who handles a 35-lb. weight as though it were a toy balloon; Percy Beard, a 23-year-old instructor in engineering at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, whose long...
...figure is taken to mean the price for 5/6 of a yd. If it means $2-5/6 per yd., the answer...
...else could do 200 ft. Stanford's Jones won the discus throw without much trouble, with a Southern Californian second and Henri Laborde of Stanford third. Eddie Tolan, Michigan's little Negro sprinter who holds the official world record (9.5 sec.) for the distance, was entered in the 100-yd. dash, but Frank Wykoff of Southern California, whose unofficial record is 9.4 sec., beat him in 9.6 sec., the new intercollegiate record. Tolan won the 220, in which Wykoff was not entered presumably because the Southern California coach, Dean Cromwell, is guarding him for the Olympic Games next year...
Eastern colleges had small consolation, except that Hallowell of Harvard won a great mile race, Harvard's red-headed hurdler, Eugene Record, won the 120-yd. high hurdles, and Joe McCluskey of Fordham won the two-mile run after falling down and rolling in the cinders on the first turn. Southern California and Stanford between them won eight of the 15 individual championships, and ? as many points as all the rest of the colleges put together. It was an occasion on which Southern California Coach Dean Cromwell and Stanford Coach Templeton could have congratulated each other, but they...