JESSE OWENS BEATS POLO PONY
J Jesse Owens, the American, negro, B known at the Olympic Games in Berlin g in 1936 as the “Midnight Express” outran a polo pony over 100 yards recents ly, pocketed a few dollars, and went on J his barn-storming way. One of the g greatest athletes in world history, the gj Alabama cotton picker broke three g world records and equalled another on g a single afternoon a few years ago. Bell tween innihgs of negro baseball games, g Owens makes his barn-storming apjg pearance. Usually he circles the bases, g He ran his .match against the polo pony, g giving it five yards and winning by fully B a foot. B Owens set two new world records 8 and equalled two others. He holds the § 100 yards record of 9.4 seconds jointly = with F. C. Wykoff and the 100 metres g record of 10.2 seconds jointly with B.: i W. Johnson. His world figures for 2201 g yards are 20.6 seconds. His world record 1 H for the broad jump is 26ft 8 jin. H ■ MiiiMiimiiiMiiiißiiiimiiiHiiiiiiiiiMiiiiaiiiiiaiiiiniiiraiiiiMiiii
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Southland Times, Issue 24132, 22 May 1940, Page 10
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