Word: discuses
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...with Joe Lang of Boston College, Arthur Foote II, '33, Crimson distance ace, took first place in the 2-mile run for the most sensational finish of the meet, winning by a matter of inches. J. H. Dean '34, footfall captain-elect, broke both the shot put and the discus records, while Captain Dodge shattered the previous quarter-mile mark...
...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...