Monday, Mar. 18, 1940
Who Won
>Chunky Gregory Rice of South Bend, Ind., loping around to the tune of Notre Dame's Victory March: a two-mile race, headliner of New York's Knights of Columbus track meet; in 8 min., 56.2 sec., breaking the world's indoor record by almost two seconds; before 16,000 spectators; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Hailed as America's No. 1 distance runner, Notre Darner Rice, who also set a new world's indoor record for three miles (13:55.9) three weeks ago, will be matched next fortnight against famed Finn Taisto Maki, holder of the world's outdoor records for two miles (8:53.2) and three miles (13:42.4).
>An unnamed red fox: the 144th anniversary Bayard Taylor Memorial Hunt, biggest fox hunt ever held in the U. S.; outwitting 140 hounds (seven packs); before 10,000 spectators; on the estates of Pierre S. du Pont and W. Plunket Stewart in Chester County, Pa. After a chase of six miles, the fox jumped to the roof of a shed, climbed through a window, was rescued just as the hounds approached the door. Carried off in a sack, the fox was released after the hounds were called off.
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