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...Ohio State's crack sprinter, Negro Jesse Owens: four events, one (100-yd. dash) in world's record time (9.4 sec.); at a track meet between Ohio State and Southern California that ended in a 7½-to-7½ tie; at Columbus...
...conservative craft unionists and United Mine Worker John Llewellyn Lewis' progressive industrial unionists-have been at deadlock over the question of Labor's future form of organization, and Labor's future leadership. It was agreed that the man who maneuvered himself into position for the first dash over Steel's frontier would have a heavy advantage over his opponent, the chance of tapping the valuable support of 500,000 workers. It was also agreed that the vehicle for the dash was unimpressive little (7,000 members) Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers...
Friends assert to this day that the chairman hung up a new unofficial ten-foot record in his dash to the telephone. Unfortunately the paper was hot off the griddle, and a coldly polite voice answered in that mournful refrain of "Miss Otis regrets...
Other points for the Cambridgites came with Gerry Downer's third in the 100-meters dash with the brilliant time of 10.7 seconds for the winner. Downer followed Scanion, however, whom he beat earlier in the season. Mal Millard captured a rather discouraging third in the discus, tossing the platter about 148 feet, ten feet behind Wood of Cornell and four behind Kishon of Bates...
Outstanding among the upsets was Norm Cahner's triple when he ran ahead of Downer in the short dash, nipped Millett of Yale in the 200, and outthrew Loeb and Castle in the hammer throw...