Word: decathloner
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Burly Tony Plansky, once of Georgetown, won the Decathlon and a sure place on the U. S. Olympic team...
...Pennsylvania how to win a 480-yard shuttle relay in a nasty rain, without knocking over a single hurdle. The U. S. boys slipped, floundered, smote down barriers, were almost out of sight when Lord Burghley finished for his quartet. The other significant event was the winning of the decathlon by Vernon Kennedy, an unsung youth from Missouri State Teachers' College. As everyone knows, it took pliable muscles and potent lungs even to finish this decathlon - com posed of a 100-metre dash, running broad jump, 16-lb. shot-put, running high jump, 400-metre run, 110-metre hurdles...
...relay carnival at the Drake Stadium, Des Moines, Iowa, last week. On the average, their performances were better than those at the Penn Carnival. Iowa State captured the medley and the two-mile relays, and the University of Iowa won the 440-yard and the one-mile relays. No decathlon was attempted...
...Carnival; easterners on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, for the annual Penn Relays. The latter meet was notable for no world's records. Yale took two championships? the half-mile varsity and one-mile freshman relays. Columbia won the two-mile varsity relay. Anthony J. Plansky, herculean Georgetown Universityite, retained his decathlon championship with a new meet record of 7,169.16 points for the ten events?100-meter dash, shot-put, high jump, broad jump, 400-meter run, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, and. 1,500-meter...
Last year in Norway, a lithe, bespectacled U. S. youth fell into a friendly argument with a lean, puckery-faced young Norwegian. They were talking about their bodies. The U. S. disputant was Harold M. Osborne, 1924 Olympic high jump and decathlon champion, world's record-holder in both events. His contention was that he could compel his body to perform feats surpassing in dexterity and variety those of his interlocutor, Charles Hoff, world's champion pole-vaulter...