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Richie Szaro and Frank Champi got their earliest starts ever in the javelin, and responded with heaves of 230 and 249 feet. "The good thing about competing rather than just practicing during the spring is that the guys are able to get used to throwing in competition," Stowell said...
With the exception of the shot put and discus, both weakened by last year's graduation. Harvard is strong in the field events. Long jumper Noel Hare finished third in the NCAA's last month, and javelin thrower Richie Szaro holds the New England intercollegiate record...
...Tech, may be even better-possibly the No. 1 draft choice. "He's much like Roman Gabriel," says one report. "He's big, he stands in there like Gabe, and he has a pro arm." Indeed he does. Bradshaw throws a football like the national high school javelin champion he once was; he fired 390 completions for 39 touchdowns in three spectacular years. "If you were going to save a franchise with a quarterback," advises a scout, "this guy would...
...story in Sunday's Boston Globe Magazine reported that Champi looked forward to the day when he would leave organized sport behind and play sports like handball and squash. He said last night that he would continue to throw the javelin for the track team because it was an individual activity which didn't restrict him so much...
...Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who first achieved national fame in 1930 when she played on the Golden Cy-clones Championship Girls' Basketball team of the Employers' Casualty Insurance Company of Dallas. She moved into the international spotlight in 1932 by winning the javelin throw and 80-meter hurdles at the Olympics in Los Angeles. In 1947, she won 17 straight golf tiles before turning professional. The Associated Press voted Babe the greatest female athlete of the first half of the twentieth century and, also, named her the woman athlete of the year...