¶ Duke Nalon, Chicago midget-auto driver: a five-mile race that inaugurated the Philadelphia Municipal Stadium as a midget track, drew the biggest crowd for a professional sport event in Philadelphia since the Dempsey-Tunney fight in 1926 (53,000).
¶ Ohio State's crack sprinter, Negro Jesse Owens: four events, one (100-yd. dash) in world's record time (9.4 sec.); at a track meet between Ohio State and Southern California that ended in a 7½-to-7½ tie; at Columbus.
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