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...clearly between De Bruyn and Hennigan. For five of the six miles the two ran almost shoulder to shoulder with Kyronen, who liked the cool weather, holding on behind them. Then, in the last mile. De Bruyn began to work his well-muscled legs faster in their choppy stride. He was 200 yd. ahead at the finish, with Hennigan second, Kyronen third, De Mar 18th, McLeod 27th. Far behind McLeod straggled a sad marathoner named Charles E. Bradford of Lowell, Mass. He was seized by a policeman as he finished the race, hustled to court where his wife was suing...
Phar Lap was huge?16 hands, 3 1/2 in.? with a huge leisurely stride. He was a seven-year-old in the U. S., a six-year-old in Australia.* He was the son of Night-raid, out of Entreaty. When Phar Lap was shipped from England to Australia in 1927, he was sold at auction for $800. In 51 starts in the next four years he won 37 races, finished second thrice. Australians considered him the greatest racehorse in the world. Last winter with five attendants and enough New Zealand oats to last three months, Phar Lap crossed...
When Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) has Jane Parker in his den, the picture really gets into its stride. The ground below the trees becomes alive with tigers, lions, zebras, waterbucks, crocodiles and savage dwarfs. Tarzan is a match for all of them. When a member of the Parker expedition shoots him in the head, he is too tough to mind it and shows his stamina by immediately strangling not one lion but two. When the savage dwarfs capture the members of the Parker expedition and are gleefully preparing to feed them to a large gorilla, Tarzan effects a rescue. He gives...
University of Missouri one day last week. How gay and glamorous the affair would be, the big annual ball of the Engineering School! How red-blooded and stalwart the engineers, who stride the campus daily in corduroys and stout boots, seemingly oblivious to the admiring glances of the coeds! A fig for their rivals the law-students, who garb themselves nattily, strut with walking sticks! Mary Butterfield hummed gaily, her thoughts on the triumph, that would be hers when the engineers crowned her Queen of the Ball. About mid-afternoon she left the sorority house...
Egremont and Forbra fought for the lead the second time around. Coming to the last fence but one, Egremont was a stride ahead but Forbra passed him at the last jump, stood off a challenge on the flat and was three lengths in front at the wire, with Shaun Goilin a slow third and five others-Near East, Aspirant, Heartbreak Hill, Annandale, Sea Soldier-plunging after them to the finish...