Word: javelins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Track Coach Jaakko Mikkola expressed deep regret and indignation yesterday when asked to comment on the Big Ten's sudden action in abolishing from their conference the javelin throw, one of the oldest field events in history, an event originated by the ancient Greeks...
...javelin was given the permanent toss by Big Ten officials for two main reasons: (1) the event has proved detrimental to participants, resulting in innumerable sore muscles and dead arms and (2) it is dangerous for spectators...
...reply to the first point, that the event is harmful to participants, Coach Mikkola said, "If a javelin man throws with the right form he will not get hurt, but many don't use the right form because it hasn't been explained to them by anyone. It all depends on the position of the elbow," Jaakko said while demonstrating what he meant with his right...
...sank within 70 seconds of a direct hit by a German dive bomber. (The Germans had reported the Kelly officially sunk once before.) Cousin of King George and husband of famously wealthy Edwina Cynthia Ashley, Lord Louis had already had a narrow escape last year when his ship, the Javelin, was torpedoed in a Channel battle but limped safely to port. . . . Ferrying planes from factory to field in Britain was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's adopted son Chiang Wei-kuo. . . .Earthbound as a Home Guard battalion commander was Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, co-hero of the first non-stop...
...against Dartmouth two weeks ago, were to decide the outcome, when in form, Lacey could have won the event with no trouble at all, but his bandaged throwing arm limited him to one toss for the vital second. As his teammates and spectators clustered around expectantly, Lacey took the Javelin without any preparatory throws and tossed it for a meet-winning 184 feet 8 1/2 inches, 7 feet further than Yale's Phil Freeman...