Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corpses have been exhumed, mutilated, left lying beside their open graves. Public indignation has run high. Involved in the controversy were Minister of the Interior Baron Ernst von Born, who cast suspicion on Freemason organizations, and a Colonel Susitaivil who was accused of hampering police investigations. Last week Finland's Freemasons were cleared. Police raided a cemetery, caught three men and two women in the act of dissecting a cadaver. In the man's pockets were several pigeons. They explained that certain parts of the corpses, supplemented by pigeon blood, were very useful for "occult purposes...
...middle-weight championship; Carl Westergren, Swedish bus-driver, who won the middleweight championship in 1920, the lightweight championship in 1924, the heavyweight championship last week. ¶ Gymnasts competed in the Los Angeles Y. M. C. A. auditorium. Scores after five days' competition: Italy, 541.85; U. S., 522.275; Finland...
Steeplechase. The course in the 3,000-metre steeplechase was 3,450 metres. Officials had made a mistake in designing it. After the race judges consulted the runners who, instead of protesting for a re run, agreed to stand by the result: Volmari Iso-Hollo (Finland) first, by 70 yards, Tom Evenson (England) second, Joe McCluskey (U. S.) third...
Little Zabala was still in front after eight miles. Then the crowd at a street intersection saw Margarito Pomposa Banos, the Mexican, catch up and go past him. Five miles further on, Zabala was first again. At 15 miles another runner caught him. This time it was Lauri Virtanen, Finland's substitute for Nurmi. Virtanen tired as soon as he had the lead, quit the race. At 22 miles, Duncan MacLeod Wright, seasoned Scottish marathoner, passed Zabala and held the lead for two miles...
...stadium, where the Olympic torch flared enormously against a dark sky, heard a trumpet blast as the first runner came into the chute for the finish. They recognized Zabala, tired but still running strongly. A hundred yards behind him was Samuel Ferris of England. Armas Toivonen of Finland and Wright were in the stadium also by the time Zabala, a small solemn figure jogging steadily through an uproar of cheers and trumpets, reached the finish. It was the closest marathon in Olympic history and the fastest?...