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...adverse weather conditions yesterday, all but one event in the Fall Handicap Track Meet were postponed, and will be run off this afternoon. The only event to take place yesterday was the finals of the javelin throw, which was partially completed on Tuesday...
...javelin throw, which did not take place yesterday, will be held at 1.30 o'clock today, to allow a greater number of men to enter this event. The other events scheduled for today will take place at 2.15 o'clock and will include the 70-yard high hurdles, the 70-yard dash, the 440-yard run, the 120-yard low hurdles, the 150-yard dash, and the 880-yard...
Among the veterans to be seen on the field are Captain N. P. Dodge '33, and J. M. Morse '34, quarter milers; A. Kidder '33, hammer; J. J. Healey '34, discus; J. B. White '34, half-mile; R. Bassett '34, javelin; P. A. Pescosolido '34, dashes. Prospects from last year's unbeaten Freshman team are F. F. Locke, E. F. Howditch, W. C. McCarty, E. E. Calvin, J. D. Woodberry, F. Schumaun...
...Cleveland two months ago, William Chase, 26, entered City Hospital as a psychopathic patient. Week ago, as he was about to be released as cured, he attended an athletic meet in which only patients pronounced "cured" could participate. Diomede Petrillo, 15, picked up a javelin, hurled it wildly, hit Patient Chase in the neck, killed him. Informed that Chase had died, Diomede Petrillo became hysteric, delirious. Unable to make him understand that police absolved him, psychiatrists doubt that he will recover...
Women. Of the 140 women contestants in the Xth Olympiad, by far the most spectacular was Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson of Dallas, Tex. The first event she won was the javelin throw with a world's record of 143 ft. 4 in. She explained that she would have thrown it further if it had not slipped out of her hand. In the 80-metre hurdles she set another world's record of 11.7 sec. Disgusted at not being allowed to compete in the discus throw (won by Lillian Copeland of the U. S.) and 100-metre dash [won by Stanislawa Walasiewicz...