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...Decathlon (100-metre sprint, broad jump, shot-put, high jump, 400-metre run, 110-metre hurdles, discus throw, pole-vault, javelin throw, 1,500-metre run) went to huge James ("Jarring Jim") Bausch, insurance salesman and onetime University of Kansas footballer, who was in sixth place before the last five events, finished with a world's record score of 8,462.23. Second was Matti Jarvinen's brother Akilles with...
...have looked in vain in the last two issues of TIME for some mention of the Olympic Decathlon tryouts which were held at Evanston two weeks ago. Isn't it worthy of note that the three successful contestants in the tryouts were trained by the same coach, attended school in the same small town, two in the same institution, and that the first place winner broke the existing Olympic Decathlon record? It seems to me that Coach Brutus Hamilton of the University of Kansas has established a remarkable coaching record in training James Bausch, former University of Kansas athlete...
...once took off so heavily for a pole-vault that he crashed through the end-board of the runway. Pole-vaulting is not his specialty any more than weight-throwing, wrestling, boxing, baseball. Considered one of the best all-around track athletes in the U. S., he won the decathlon for the third time in a row at the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival last spring, took more points than any other contestant at the Intercollegiate Indoor Track Championships. Later, he was the leading member of a U. S. track team which toured South Africa. Voters for the Sullivan Medal like...
Among the members of the team are Paavo Nurmi; Matti Jarvinen, holder of the world record for the javelin throw; and Achilles Jarvinen, Matti's brother, winner of the decathlon in the last Olympics...
...Beard, a 23-year-old instructor in engineering at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, whose long skinny legs are well suited to the high hurdles; Leo Lermond, New York Athletic Club miler, who got off to practice on the way to Lincoln every time the train stopped; Wilson Charles, Oneida Indian decathlon champion, whose foremost rival was large and angular Jess Mortensen, onetime Southern California javelin-throwing champion; George Spitz, N. Y. U. freshman who high-jumped well over six feet when he was a school boy and now holds the world's unofficial indoor record; Barney Berlinger, Pennsylvania...