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...young officer." Now he likes to say that he is the "only senior British officer who ever fought the Russians." Between the world wars, he played polo and rode to hounds, became bayonet-fighting champion of the British army, made the 1924 Olympic squad as a 120-yard hurdler. He also saw action in Palestine, where he won a D.S.O. in guerrilla skirmishes against the Arabs. Palestine taught him "the mind and method of the guerrilla," and introduced him u) the Arab-Jewish problem: "I can remember lying in bed weeping about the tragedy...
...Olympic two-mile relay team of Bill Ashenfelter, Reggie Pearman, Johnny Barnes and Mal Whitfield, by 40 yards over Britain's team, to set a world mark of 7 min. 29.2 sec.; U.S. Hurdler Charley Moore, through a driving rain, the 440-yd. event in a world record 51.6 sec.; at the post-Olympic British Games in London...
...Navy's unbeaten crew, which chalked up the seventh straight Olympic victory for U.S. eights (the first: in 1920, also by an Annapolis crew), by a length and a quarter over Russia. ¶ Harrison Dillard, ex-Baldwin-Wallace College hurdler, who skimmed the 110-meter hurdles in an Olympic record time of 13.7 sec., closely trailed by U.S. Teammates Jack Davis and Arthur Barnard. -I Luxembourg's Joseph Barthel, who ran the 1,500-meter "metric mile" in 3 min. 45-2 sec., an Olympic record equaled by the silver medalist, Occidental College's Bob McMillen, clocked...
...jump and broad jump). At 21, already a veteran of eight decathlon meets, four times national champion and the world recordholder, handsome Bob Mathias meets to a remarkable degree the physical specification for this Olympic challenge. He is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), with the reaching stride of a hurdler or high-jumper, and husky enough (200 Ibs.) for the heavy-duty weight events. He has the steel-spring legs of a sprinter, the back muscles of a pole vaulter and the barrel chest of a distance man. He also has the nerveless self-control to make the most...
...Hurdler (400-meter) Charley Moore, whose time of 0:50.7 upset the meet record by a full second...