Word: pentathlon
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...read your excellent Feb. 18 dissertation on the Olympic military pentathlon competition. However, you mention that Major George B. Moore, who placed second in the 1948 Olympic military pentathlon, was killed in Korea...
...first U.S. competitor in the Modern (military) Pentathlon*-and a fierce one at that-Patton needed no excuses for his fifth-place showing behind four Swedish army men. Since then, and particularly after Patton gave West Point a competitive pentathlon plaque, first awarded in 1935, Americans have done even better in the little-known sport. The U.S. won the team title in the 1936 Olympics, and in 1948 Major George B. Moore (who was killed in action in Korea) won an individual second place. Last week at West Point, 13 officers and enlisted men, captained and managed by Captain...
...squad heads for the swimming pool for a series of windsprints or a 1,500-yard trial to build up endurance. After lunch, there is a welcome hour of rest. Fencing practice is a grueling two-hour workout-for in the Olympic pentathlon, usually with some 50 men competing, the fencers must all meet one another in tense touch-and-out matches. Troy tops off his squad's work day with about an hour of cross-country, the easiest of the five sports to teach and learn. ("You just have to get out there...
...racing's oldest stakes (first running: 1887), over Sheilas Reward, by a length; in New York. ¶ David Stanley of Los Angeles, the national public links golf championship, over Ralph Vranesic of Denver, 1 up on the 38th hole; in Milwaukee. ¶Stella Walsh, 40, her own national pentathlon title, with a record 1,932 points; in Berkeley, Calif...
...Olympic committee last week announced its line-up for the first Pan-American Olympic Games, starting next week in Buenos Aires. In all, 128 men & women will compete for the U.S. in baseball, basketball, boxing, cycling, modern pentathlon, wrestling, weightlifting, gymnastics, shooting, fencing, swimming, water polo and track & field events...