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From Fletcher's Field, Montreal, over a 500-mi. irregular course of roads through Victoriaville. Quebec, Ste. Anne de la Perade, Joliette, and back to Montreal's baseball stadium runners plodded last week in a relay race. Eighteen thousand spectators cheered the winners. Swathed in wraps, Arthur Newton of Rhodesia, South Africa, and Peter Gavuzzi of Southampton, England, hurried away to get some rest. Their total time for the 500-mi. course was 48 hr. 4 min., but they had been fresh enough to do the final lap of 26 mi., in the fast time...
...fame had gone beyond the district and his running had improved. Nobody laughed when he asked for timekeepers in an attempt to break a world's record. Starting one hot July morning in 1923 from the Agricultural Show Grounds in Durban he broke the world's record for 50 mi. in 5 hr. 53 min. 5 sec. As soon as he had finished and found people gathered around him he began to talk about that matter of the Kaffirs...
...miles a day to keep training. He wore leather socks next his skin. Every hour he drank a half-pint glass of lemonade containing eight teaspoonfuls of sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt, and cracked ice. Other records: London to Brighton?5 hr. 53 min. 43 sec., 1924; 100 mi. at Bulawayo...
While scheduled U. S. civil aircraft flew 720,000 mi. last week without serious mishap, three flights on the stunters' fringe of commercial aviation ended disastrously...
...early this year, Kolynos Co. of New Haven, Conn, (which annually hands out thousands of little yellow tubes of toothpaste at Yale football games) fondled the idea of stimulating its South American trade with a publicity flight. The Stinson monoplane K, it was planned, would fly nonstop 9,000 mi. to Buenos Aires, refueling in the air en route. After weeks of persistent misadventure, the K took off from New Haven two months ago, landed the same day at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. where the crew of three angrily disbanded. Last week Pilots Garland Peed, Randy Enslow and Jimmy Garrigan...