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Navy Department makes surprisingly good entertainment. En route to the Olympic Games as a javelin thrower, Phil Donlan (Paul Kelly) unwisely lets himself be involved in a shipboard party celebrating the elopement of two of his fellow passengers. Their marriage fails to materialize but he gets tossed off the Olympic squad and out of the New York Police Department for drunkenness. When it turns out that the young lady (June Travis) responsible for his predicament, daughter of a hard-boiled colonel of Marines, is in love with him, Phil enlists under her father but any chance that this will mean...
Added to the Olympic program in 1912, the decathlon is a test of all-round athletic ability in which competitors are awarded points for ten events: 100-metre dash, no-metre hurdles, 400-metre run,, 1,500 metre run, broad jump, high jump, shot put, discus throw, javelin throw, pole vault. To build up a respectable score in the decathlon, a track & field athlete need not be particularly able in any one of the ten. Since each of his individual performances is usually outclassed by specialists, an athlete who goes out for the decathlon rarely gets much publicity. And since...
With the Olympic Games well-publicized as high-strung, hard-boiled contests of national brawn, the fact that the original Peloponnesian games brought together poets and artificers as well as wrestlers, runners and javelin hurlers is of importance chiefly to classicists. But for years that fact has been bothering a sturdy, swart Philadelphian named Samuel Stuart Fleisher. Since he and his brother Edwin retired from their prosperous family cotton yarn mills, they have collected art and musical manuscripts, busied themselves with philanthropies, gently propagated Brother Samuel's dream of "Cultural Olympics" which every artist in the U. S. could...
Judging from the holes that graduation made in the team, a lot of spirit and hard work will be necessary. Milt Green was consistently good for three first places. Norm Cahners won a lot of points. Dick Johnson was as good a javelin thrower as there was in the east. Then there was John Dorman in the middle distance runs. Gorry Downer, Bob Hall, Mal Millard, and even Bob Playfair once in a while...
...coming down mornings because of labs in the afternoon. Among them are Stave Brennan, huge weight man. Others are out for fall sports, including Rod Daughters, who is expected to be one of the foremost broad jumpers this winter and next spring and who will also take up the javelin, as well as Joe Johanson, a sprinter who is playing Soccer...