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Winning championships is an old story to Birger Ruud. Olympic jumping champion twice (1932 and 1936), and world champion thrice, he has competed in 200 meets, placed 190 times, won no times, broken 50 records. His older brother, Sigmund, won the U. S. championship while on a visit last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Norwegian Jumpers | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

What annoyed Matt Mann most was the Kiphuth method of training swimmers in a gymnasium, the Kiphuth stunt of sitting on the bottom of the Yale pool in a diving helmet to observe his pupils from underneath.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grudge Fight | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

The first of its kind since 1935, the Carnival will include five championship races, fancy dives by Russ Greenhood and others, events for sons of the Faculty, a House Championship Medley Relay, and exhibition swimming and diving by Patricia Gray, nine-year-old mascot of the Posse School A.A.U. Team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kendall-Hutter Battle in 150-Yd. Race Will Climax Water Carnival Tomorrow | 2/25/1938 | See Source »

Diving: First; Greenhood (H); Second, Noonan (S); Third, Forbush (H); Points, 97.43.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KENDALL SETS RECORD AS SWIMMERS WIN, 60-15 | 2/24/1938 | See Source »

The G. E. men used a special fast camera of a type previously used by Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, ingenious lightning observer of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Some years ago Dr. Schonland found that in a typical lightning flash a "leader stroke" starts from a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light on Lightning | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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