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...Hugh Robert Denison, new Australian Commissioner to the U. S., when he was officially presented to President Coolidge. ¶ A four-inch dagger attached to a chain which may be worn around the neck, a weapon which Finns use to defend themselves against highway robbers, was the gift of Paavo Nurmi, greatest contemporary distance-runner. It was presented to President Coolidge by Murray Hulbert, President of the Amateur Athletic Union...
They give as reasons for the decline and fall of baseball in the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 18), the public disapproval of professionalism, the conversion of sand-lot diamonds into building sites and the rise of Bobby Joneses, Paavo Nurmis, Vincent Richardses, Harold Granges. Men that have played the game a lot will add, with point, that there can be no good baseball without good umpiring. And umpires, unlike poets, are made, not born...
...following Wednesday will be track night. Captain W. L. Tibbetts '26, will introduce Coach Farrell, who will explain the track pictures as they are projected. Pictures of the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge meet in the Stadium last summer have been procured. Negotiations are under way to get pictures of Paavo Nurmi, the Finnish star, who attempted to break the world's record for the mile run on the Stadium cinders...
...Idea itself. He found that little Tatterbreeches of the fifth grade and gawky Longpants of first-year high school no longer aim to be Ty Cobbs and Walter Johnsons when they grow up. Their aspirations, in order of prevalence, are to Red Grangeship, fame as a basketball player and Paavo Nurmidom. Baseball comes fourth...
...football and basketball may well have superseded baseball in popular favor purely through being more spectacular. The movement to engage all schoolboys and college men in some form of athletics, the wide publicity given to the Olympic Games of 1920 and 1924 (after the hiatus 1912-1920) and to Paavo ("Flying Finn") Nurmi when he visited the U. S. after those Games, may well have been factors making track and field sports momentarily more popular than baseball. The crowded condition of many city playgrounds was cited as a contributing cause for the decline. The great numbers of new country clubs...