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...craze for personal adornment? The urge for decoration moves both the European courtier and the dusky noble. The Capetown celebrity, who has seen the necks of native chiefs hung with alarm-clocks and frying-pans, may yearn with less avidity for the Order of the Garter or of the Bath. The gap between medals and tatooing is no greater than that between Picadilly and the jungle...
That a regulation Finnish bath house will be built in the Soldiers Field Locker Building has become almost a certainty due to recent decisions made by the H. A. A. authorities. It is planned, if the construction is undertaken, to incorporate the steam appliance in the new wing of the Locker Building which is now being started...
This is the first time that any group of collegiate track men in America have been given this steam bath, but the University runners, unused to it as they were, went through the procedure like veterans. They are eager to return again, but their visit will be postponed until after the triangular Harvard-Dartmouth-Cornell meet on Saturday. It is hoped that the success of this experiment will move the authorities to install the proposed Finnish bath at Soldiers Field...
...Finnish bath house will certainly not be erected at this time," said Major Moore yesterday afternoon. "Coach Jakko Mikkola is very anxious to have such a bath house at the University," he added, "and he has recommended to the Athletic Committee that one be built but no action has been taken...
...Nurmi did not appear. A messenger was sent to him, where he lurked in some hiding place unknown to all but his manager, Hugo Quist. Back came the messenger with the news that Nurmi would not run. At this, Manager Quist put on his coat, proceeded to a Turkish bath where Nurmi had been spending the evening, fetched him back. The flying Finn gave evidence of morose spirits. He had contracted a chest cold and had hurt his leg while swimming; hence his visit to the bath. He was tired. He jogged around the track, 21 2/5 seconds slower than...