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Under the appraising eye of Coach Tom Boiles, a continuous procession of eights kept Newel tank churned yesterday afternoon in the first session of a long crew campaign, a campaign that consists of an almost unbroken series of daily workouts stretching from the end of midyears until the final sprint at New London...
...pine-board track, with 15 teams of two men each dressed in bright jerseys, pedaling in relays on bicycles that cost $100, weigh 19 Ib. After 146 hours, three teams had circled the track 24,997 times and the winners had to be decided on points awarded for the sprints-races within a race-that punctuate the six-day marathon in series of ten, five times each day. Winners were blond Jimmy Walthour and slick-haired Al Crossley, who had lapped the field in the last hour, held a point lead piled up earlier by winning the sprint that ended...
...novice spectators, a six-day bicycle race appears to be a heroic feat of endurance. To an experienced six-day cyclist, each six-day race is merely a sprint in the endless marathon of his profession. Riding in a dozen or more six-day races in quick succession every season obliges him to become permanently adjusted to living conditions that include ten picnics a day, sleeping four hours out of 24, mostly in 15-minute catnaps, living, in full view and earshot of the crowds that come to watch the race, in a shelter that looks like a flag-draped...
...mile sprint around a ten-mile triangle, it is the only rival in popularity to the Bendix Race, which it last week paralleled in results almost completely. With the best U. S. pilots out because of their accidents in the Bendix, the Thompson was left to a parcel of minor U. S. racers, one foreign ace-France's huge, 31-year-old Michel Detroyat. Close friend of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, whom he was instrumental in rescuing from Le Bourget crowds after the New York-Paris flight in 1927, Detroyat is France's best stunt flyer, has twice...
Csik v. Fick. In swimming, as in running, the race which attracts most attention is the 100-metre sprint. The entrant in the 100-metre who attracted most attention at Berlin last week was handsome Peter Fick of the New York Athletic Club, world recordholder, but three wily little Japanese named Yusa, Arai and Taguchi were expected to make him do his utmost...