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...Oxford, bullers wear bowlers. In both universities, they operate as teams, "a distance runner and a sprinter." A curfew violator may make a run for it, but if a buller gets close enough to say "Good evening, sir," in a conversational tone...
...funny in a 100-yd. dash. He would rather wrestle steers or score touchdowns for San Antonio's Thomas Jefferson High School (he was the state's top scorer two years ago). Then his coach said that track would help his footballing, so Perry Samuels became a sprinter-and all last year ran a close but chronic second to speedy teammate Charley Parker (TIME, May 15, 1944). This year he pared his 100-yd. time down to 9.5 sec., one-tenth off the world's record...
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...world's greatest swim sprinter is knock-kneed, rusty-haired Alan Robert Ford. During the past month, his last at Yale, he has taken a final fling at rewriting the record books. Result: eleven new American free-style and backstroke marks. Last week, in the midst of his final Navy (V12) exams, he made the biggest splash of all. Keeping his stroke long and easy (extra effort generates power but not speed, like an automobile in second), Ford couldn't help feeling that he was loafing. Three official A.A.U. watches contradicted him : he had traveled 100 yards...
...Solons of the National Amateur Athletic Union solemnly decided last week that Claude ("Buddy") Young, famed University of llinois sprinter, could not call himself the 1944 A.A.U. 100-meter champion-even though he had won the race in a handy 10.5 seconds. Reason: Young and the five other Negroes in the 100-meter final were all disqualified for jumping the gun twice in the course of five false starts. The race was finally run as an exhibition just to please the crowd...