ATHLETICS.
NjBW RECORDS ESTABLISHED. (CKtUD PBIBB ASSOCIATION —BT ELECTRIC ; ' TBMSQSAPH —COPYRIGHT.) At the international track and field athfctje meeting, held here to-day, new world's records were established. Some of the re•alts were:— • 100 METRES. ■'• J'Eddie Tolan (Michigan) .. 1 1 "George Simpson (Ohio) •• ~ ; «-Percy Williams (Vancouver) d ftne, 10 l-ssec —a world's record. . - 220 YARDS. •• j 0. Simpson .. - : Tolan ... .. • •2 '- ■! Buss Smut (San Francisco) . • 8 >'WUliams did not enter. The winner's time equalled the world s Palmer, aged 17, of Vancouver, affile: a .world's record for the women s 60 7#rds, her time being 5 4-ssec. world's record for 100 metres was previously 10 .2-Ssec, made by. C. W. I* B ™- (U.S.A.) in April, 1921. For the 220 »rds the record is held by K. A. Locke (V'.S.A.), who ran the distance id 20 3-ssec In, May, 1926.1
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19970, 3 July 1930, Page 15
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