Word: yd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed Boston Marathon, run last week, was supposed to be the final Olympic tryout for 129 U.S. marathoners. But the man who won the 26-mi. 385-yd., up-&-downhill race was Gerry Cote, a 34-year-old policeman from St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. To celebrate his fourth B.A.A. triumph, jaunty Gerry gulped a bottle of beer and lit up a fat stogie. The Olympic marathon committee picked its three-man U.S. team from marathoners who had finished from 250 yards to 350 yards behind Canada's Cote...
Hazardous No. 8. At Pebble Beach, the hole that players feared most and the crowd most enjoyed was No. 8. It is a 425-yd. dogleg running around the edge of a steep cliff, with hazards to the right & left, and about 135 yards of salt water to go over. Lloyd Mangrum, playing the kind of golf that made him 1946's U.S. Open Champion, got his par. His final score for the 54 holes: 205, ten under par. Said Mangrum, collecting the $2,000 first prize:* "This is my week off. I'm playing here...
...very strong, and one of them boasts a pair of national champs who will race each other to the wire every time, but many of the others are still in the misty spray of final selection. With Ted Norris, national long distance titleholder, and Jerry Gorman, Eastern Intercollegiate 440 yd. Champion, this half-mile grind will provide close competition for the audience even if the opposition is swimming a dophlogisticated duck. Neither man is a kind of performer who would be satisfied with three points even if he know five were in the team pocket already...
Somewhat equally rich is the 200 yd. breast stroke, with Captain Chuck Hoelzer, a power here, supported by Don Ulen, son of the Coach, returning to water sport after three dry years of China duty with the Marine Corps. Short On Sprinters...
Most outstanding 50 yd. man now present and accounted for, with the eligibility of Norm Watkins and Bill MacVicar still in doubt, is Milt Busby. The latter operative, who learned his sleek stroke in the warm Caribbean waters which wash the Puerto Riean literal, is currently paired with Al Weatherhead in the 100 freestyle...