Records

In Los Angeles, Frank Lombardi, high-school boy, equalled the world's record (9 and | sec.) for 100 yards after having been set back a yard for making a false start.

Off the Canary Islands some fishermen found a man lying exhausted in the bottom of a 20-foot row boat. He, Captain Franz

Romer, had been trying to row across the

Atlantic.

In Delhi (Delaware County), N. Y., one Vern Whitaker, pitcher of the Delhi Academy baseball team, annoyed because a wobbling fielder let in a run in the first inning, struck out 23 men in succession.