Word: javelins
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...chosen 1947-3 "woman athlete of the year," in the annual A.P. sportwriters' poll. It was the fourth time for the versatile Babe, the third time in a row as a golfer. She was also woman of the year in 1932 (when she broke the Olympic hurdling and javelin records...
...last year's 44-college meet at Franklin Field. Michigan State was second and the Crimson and Penn State tied for third. Varsity javelin thrower Don Thimble won his event and will be back on the firing line this spring. Trimble, along with weightman Sam Felton, loom as definite Olympic possibilities...
...Trimble, the track team's other hope, operates in the javelin throw and last spring won the Nonagonal championship with a heave of 205 feet; but in California a man named Steve Seymour has reached the 248 foot mark and a couple of others in the country have gone as high as 220. Last year, however, was Trimble's first season in bigtime competition and Coach Jaakko Mikkola looks for improvement...
...tradition-bound Eton and Harrow, Gordonstoun, established in 1934 in a castle on the cliff-girt coast of Morayshire, bristled with progressive education. There, aristocratic young Britons were taught to forget class distinctions and live like hemen. Every morning before breakfast they took long hikes, climbed hills or practiced javelin-throwing...
...final round last week, nobody felt like objecting. Britain's sports pages were full of the Babe. They called her "Tough Babe," used such adjectives as "spectacular" and "phenomenal." They told Britons what most Americans already knew: that the Babe was also no slouch at javelin throwing, hurdling, swimming, shot-putting, baseball, high jumping, tennis and basketball, and that she had won 15 straight U.S. golf tournaments before crossing the Atlantic "for the only major women's golf title I have left to win." The British women's amateur was also the only major British golf title...