Word: discus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unusually large number of places open this spring, since 15 men who placed in the 1932 Yale meet graduated last June. The dashes, the mile and the two-mile, the relays, and the hurdles will be well taken care of by veteran trackmen. The hammer and the discus events are also well filled by veterans, but in most of the other field events there are a great many new men needed...
...tedious hairsplitting. Miss Didrikson must also have wondered what A. A. U. officials would have to say about a Grantland Rice "Sportlight" cinema called Wonder Girl, to be released next month. In Wonder Girl, Wonder Girl Didrikson high-jumps, broad-jumps, hurdles, puts the shot, throws the javelin and discus, dives, swims, plays baseball, football, golf, tennis, basketball. Grantland Rice, who at the Olympics called Miss Didrikson "an incredible human being" and urged her to enter the U. S. women's golf championship, went to Dallas to make the picture last September. Miss Didrikson received no money for performing...
...Italian Olympic Committee, revealed last week the result of experiments at Bologna by Italian doctors on Italian sportswomen. "Our investigations have proved," said Signer Arpinati, ''that sports do have a beneficial effect on woman's physique. The sportswoman, however, should not attempt such things as the discus throw. She should not take part in any contest likely to injure her beauty...
Among the veterans to be seen on the field are Captain N. P. Dodge '33, and J. M. Morse '34, quarter milers; A. Kidder '33, hammer; J. J. Healey '34, discus; J. B. White '34, half-mile; R. Bassett '34, javelin; P. A. Pescosolido '34, dashes. Prospects from last year's unbeaten Freshman team are F. F. Locke, E. F. Howditch, W. C. McCarty, E. E. Calvin, J. D. Woodberry, F. Schumaun...
...world's record of 143 ft. 4 in. She explained that she would have thrown it further if it had not slipped out of her hand. In the 80-metre hurdles she set another world's record of 11.7 sec. Disgusted at not being allowed to compete in the discus throw (won by Lillian Copeland of the U. S.) and 100-metre dash [won by Stanislawa Walasiewicz (Stella Walsh) of Poland], she was further disgusted when Jean Shiley beat her in the high jump (5 ft. 5¼ in.). Babe Didrikson was disqualified for "diving...