Word: jumpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Percy Rideout, outstanding langlauf skier and jumper for two years on the Dartmouth Skiing team was chosen to be captain of the ski team next year...
...with a mighty roar. Merseysiders went wild. An Irish priest shouted encouragement in Gaelic. For Workman was Irish-bred by a Cork pubkeeper, Irish-trained in Kildare by Tim Hyde himself, Irish-owned by Sir Alex, a sometime Meath man from Navan who had put a bet on his jumper for the benefit of Navan's 10,000 citizens. Close behind Workman came 'Captain Briggs's MacMoffat, with Jockey Alder in primrose silks. As they pressed on, Kilstar blundered four jumps from home, and from then on it was nip and tuck between the green...
...Bauer, hurdler and high jumper, is one of the better bets; he has done better than six feet in the latter event...
Married. Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, 25, famed woman athlete, 1932 Olympic Games track & field star, expert basketball player, golfer, javelin thrower, hurdler, high jumper, swimmer, baseball pitcher, football halfback, billiardist, tumbler, boxer, wrestler, fencer, weight lifter, adagio dancer; and George Zaharias, 29, heavyweight wrestler; in St. Louis...
...Casteret declares with a refreshing lack of modesty: "Underground exploration requires unexpected talents-from prehistory, mineralogy, natural history, physics and chemistry to rope acrobatics, crawling, canoeing, swimming and even skating. . . . No one can venture underground without agility and physical stamina, and these qualifications I possessed as a champion runner, jumper and swimmer...