WORLD RECORDS
INDOOR ATHLETICS IN U.S.A.
HANOVER (New. Hampshire),
March 14.
At the Dartmouth College annual invitation games eight new indoor world records were set, including one by J. Woodruff of lmin 47 7-10 sec for half a mile, which is also, under the outdoor mark! "■•■.
Other records are as follows: Dartmouth team, 3min 15sec for mile relay, the team also breaking the 1600 metres record; Woodruff, lmin 47sec for 800 metres; Jim Herbert, New York University negro, 48 2-ssec for th;e quartermile and 47 9-lOsec for 400 n\etres; John/ Borieain; New -.^ork University negro, 3miri 1 l-ssec for three-quarters of a mile; New York University team, lmin 27 7-10 sec for the halfrmile relay.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1940, Page 14
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115WORLD RECORDS Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1940, Page 14
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