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...character in a current cinema (This Is the Night) boasts that he throws the javelin for both accuracy and distance. Accuracy has no part in the modern version of this ancient, useless sport.* Because of inaccurate javelin throwing, two youths last week had their brains pierced...
...Bowdoin College, Tapping S. Reeve, 20, of Detroit, a freshman, was throwing the javelin for practice. Modern javelins are straight wooden rods 8.5 ft. long, weighing 1.6 lb. They are tipped with steel. In making the throw the expert runs swiftly for a stretch, stops short and heaves the rod past his ear. In effect he makes a throwing sling of his entire body...
Tapping Reeve emulated as far as he could the 232 ft. 11⅝ in. accepted world record of Swedish E. H. Lundquist. Then, wearied, he walked across the athletic field. A javelin returned through the air struck him in the back of the head. It stuck there, quivering with the force of flight. The boy reached back and plucked the weapon from his skull, ran a quarter-mile to the college infirmary. From there he was transported to Portland. It seemed he would live...
What actually happens is unimportant. Roland Young, whose cinema career has been a succession of embarrassing situations, is this time embarrassed when, discovered with the lady who lost her dress by her husband, a javelin-thrower. A friend (Charles Ruggles) tries to help Young out by saying that he is married. Young is therefore forced to dig up a girl (Lily Damita) to pose as his wife. Both couples and the friend set off for Venice where, as anticipated, Young and Lily Damita are last seen drifting inseparably in a gondola. Even better than the idea of proving that Lubitsch...
...Javelin throw--won by A. E. Wahigren '35 (scratch); second, S. A. Kudisch '34 (28 feet); third, B. L. Huntington '34 (10 feet). Distance...