Word: yd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys include the Brothers Nakamo (Kiyoshi and Bunmei), who learned to swim in the irrigation ditches of the sugar plantation where they worked with their Japanese parents. Last year, at the national U.S. meet, Brother Kiyoshi, a University of Hawaii student, outswam mainland topnotchers in the 440-and 880-yd. free-style events, and Brother Bunmei took the mile...
...eyed, 180-lb. Alfred Diebolt, Colgate junior: the 440-yd. race of New York's Metropolitan A.A.U. track & field championships; in 46.9 sec., fastest quarter-mile in its 50-year history; at Triborough Stadium, New York City. Young Diebolt, son of a onetime Colgate track star, lost his right eye in an auto accident when...
...will do. But she's coming up here tomorrow. Or maybe we'll get together in a month. How do I know?" - Emerging from the gallery during practice for the Masters golf tournament at Augusta. Ga., fiery old Ty Cobb stepped to the tee, rifled a 250-yd. lefthander straight down the middle. Almost as pleased as if he had just stolen second, he then issued a challenge to Babe Ruth, who hits a long ball at golf, too: "I have been hankering to take a shot at the Babe ever since I started playing golf. Anywhere...
Helen Perry, 21, of Cleveland, in the 100-yd. backstroke final, beat glamorous Gloria Callen, 17, defending champion, in a fingernail finish-which took the judges fully five minutes to decide. Time...
Other titleholders: Patricia McWhorter (100-yd. free style), Dorothy Leonard (220-yd. free style), Helen Crlenkovich (highboard dive), Anne Ross (low-board dive...