Word: finne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basketball may well have superseded baseball in popular favor purely through being more spectacular. The movement to engage all schoolboys and college men in some form of athletics, the wide publicity given to the Olympic Games of 1920 and 1924 (after the hiatus 1912-1920) and to Paavo ("Flying Finn") Nurmi when he visited the U. S. after those Games, may well have been factors making track and field sports momentarily more popular than baseball. The crowded condition of many city playgrounds was cited as a contributing cause for the decline. The great numbers of new country clubs might have...
...FINN Right Tackle...
DAVID GOES VOYAGING-David Binney Putnam-Putnam ($1.50). Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were "made-up" boys. David Putnam is a real one, aged 12, and besides he went thousands of miles on the ocean (with Deep-Sea-Explorer William Beebe, to Panama and the Galapagos Island) and had a lot of modern tackle and interested grown-ups to fish with and collect birds' eggs, turtles, lizards, bugs, beetles and even scorpions. He saw sharks and devilfish, albatrosses and penguins, sea lions and octopuses. He helped dig buried treasure and played pirate on desert islands at the Equator...
Heroes, statesmen, scientists crowned with honors, are exalted by the lofty shafts of monuments. Even so on Cardiff Hill, at Hannibal, Mo., will be raised a shaft to crown the honors of the heroic gemini-Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn...
Before the small band of coaches and track enthusiasts who stayed until almost dusk on the chance that the great Finn might come for a trial run, Nurmi jogged around the track, seemingly entirely pleased with the preparations that have been made for his appearance...