U.S.A. ATHLETE
BREAKS WORLD RECORD NEW YORK, Feb. 5. At an indoor meeting Roy Staley (California) ran first i<n his heat in the 60 yards high hurdles in 7.3 secs., clipping a tenth of a second off the world record. He returned the same time in the semi-final and the final. John Borican, a New Jersey negro, ran two-thirds of a mile in 2min. 39sec., shaving 4.6 sec. off the world record established in 1923.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 31, 7 February 1939, Page 5
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75U.S.A. ATHLETE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 31, 7 February 1939, Page 5
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