Word: yd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week at Pasadena, beauteous Brenda seemed a cinch to win the Pacific Coast A.A.U. 100-yd. free-style championship, with arch-rival Ann not entered in the race. But Brenda had to put every last ounce of energy into the final lap to beat Marilyn Sahner of San Francisco by a stroke in 1:02.3. That clipped two-tenths of a second off Ann Curtis' U.S. record...
...nation's newest speed merchant is an 18-year-old, bowlegged Texas cowboy, who guesses he looks pretty funny in a 100-yd. dash. He would rather wrestle steers or score touchdowns for San Antonio's Thomas Jefferson High School (he was the state's top scorer two years ago). Then his coach said that track would help his footballing, so Perry Samuels became a sprinter-and all last year ran a close but chronic second to speedy teammate Charley Parker (TIME, May 15, 1944). This year he pared his 100-yd. time down...
When the gun sounded in the junior 100-meter (109.4-yd.) final, he bounced off the blocks in front, remembered his coach's repeated instructions to relax, and settled into a ground-eating glide that left the field behind. His time: 10.5, three-tenths of a second slower than Jesse Owens' world's mark. This week Junior Champ Samuels becomes Private Samuels...
...Snead drew his biggest cheer when he nonchalantly selected a No. 5 iron, blasted out of a trap with a 175-yd. carry dead...
Partial relief for a war-shortage headache was prescribed in Washington last week: WPB approved the manufacture of some 500,000 dozen new golf balls with synthetic (neoprene) rubber centers. (Tests showed that the new balls were 15 yards short of the real thing on a 225-yd. drive.) It was a drop in the bucket compared to the yearly peacetime output of 3,000,000 dozen, but it would help...