New York Indoor Athletics 1939

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Indoor athletics meeting at Madison Square Garden, New York in the United States of America.

Full titles read: "NEW YORK"

Several shots of a two mile race which is won controversially by Glenn Cunningham who cuts across Don Lash.

Data

Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
19212
Sort Number:
39/024
Time in/Out:
01:55:13:00 / 01:55:56:00
Canister:
39/24
Film ID:
1003.59
Issue Date:
23/03/1939

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