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...Dumped into a Seattle depository was an aluminum plaque of Adolf Hitler. A Philadelphia trophy was inscribed: "Given by the German-American Bund; quoit tournament, 1937." In Kansas City: a miniature hatchet, bearing the profile of George Washington...
...track events will include 60 metre, 100 metre, 200 metre, 400 metre, 800 metre flat races, 110 metre, 400 metre and 2000 metre hurdle races, and a 2500 metre steeplechase. The field events will be broad and high jumps, pole vault, hop skip and jump, weight contests and quoit throwing...
Athletic sports.- Foot races, jumping, weight throwing, and quoit throwing...
...public gymnasia-of which every town had one or two, and where the complete apparatus for all public sports was often combined with free baths and lecture halls-the larger cities had associations for the promotion of special favorite exercises. Wrestling, javelin-throwing, running, leaping, pitching the quoit, riding, driving, climbing ropes, shooting the arrow, were all practiced by amateur clubs, each one devoted to its special form of games. The dominant passion with the Greeks was a love of beauty and harmony, to which they joined a joyous sense of well-being. It was under the inspiring...
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