RUNNING RECORDS.
VANCOUVER, Juno 25. Marking his return to form, Percy Williams on Saturday won the ICO metres British Columbia Olympic trials in ten and one-sixteenth seconds, which is two-tenths better than his time when winning the event at tho Amsterdam Olympiad. OHIO, June 25. George Simpson, tho former Ohio University “flash,” shattered the Olympic record for 200 metres on Saturday in tho Allegheny district try-outs, doing the distance in 21.2 sees., clipping four-tenths off the present mark.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 176, 27 June 1932, Page 7
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78RUNNING RECORDS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 176, 27 June 1932, Page 7
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