Word: runners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Groom-in-Waiting and Extra Equerry of Edward of Wales is Colonel and Honorary Brigadier General Gerald Frederic Trotter, perhaps H. R. H.'s closest elder friend. A heart attack smote General Trotter last week, rendering him unconscious for several hours. Instantly Hunter Wales despatched a native runner to the two Royal field telegraphers, encamped some miles away near a tapped wire. So fervent were their calls for help that a motor cavalcade of doctors and nurses set out from Kampala, 200 miles distant, under the impression that the Heir Apparent was dying. They made the distance...
...gentle as a deer and as ugly as a monkey, little El Ouati, the Algerian Marathon runner who won the Olympic race at Amsterdam last summer came to the U. S. in order to race for Promoter Bill ("Easy") Pickens. Last fortnight in Manhattan, he ran against Joie Ray whom he had beaten, by a last minute sprint, at Amsterdam; with frightened looks behind him and a low scooping stride. El Ouati beat Ray for the second time by seven laps. After this race it was planned to send El Ouati and Joie Ray on a tour...
...idea of Promoter Pickens that the world of sport, like a modern marathon, moves in cycles. The time has now come for a resuscitation of long distance running; the best long distance runner in the world is this jolly timid Algerian, who cannot speak a word of English and shakes hands in a complicated. North African fashion. Promoter Pickens chose him to make the marathon famous again...
Obviously, the U. S. runner had won the race, but after watching Dorando wriggling to the finish like a wounded fly, no one wished Hayes to have the prize. The Italian flag went up; the U. S. protest was allowed at 8 in the evening. British newspapers scored the decision of the committee; the Queen of England gave each of the runners a bronze medal, and the king from nearby Windsor sent each one an oak wreath...
...Hollywood, Universal Co. began to make The Five Frankforters, a story about the Rothschild family. Assistant director is Wilfred Rothschild, onetime Wall Street runner, member of the family...