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...crew saga of University of Washington, in which Harvard began a new chapter last week, started when famed Gilmour ("Gloomy Gil") Dobie went to Washington as football coach in 1908. As trainer and rubber Coach Dobie had a onetime bicycle-racer and Chicago White Sox baseball trainer named Hiram B. Connibear. Washington had just decided to have an eight-oared crew, handed the job of coaching it to Trainer Connibear, who had not only never seen a college crew before but never even rowed a boat. It was Coach Connibear who made Washington the producer of almost...
Before the Berlin Medical Society, Professor Helmut Dennig asserted that doses of this common kitchen chemical increased physical capacity and endurance between 30% and 100%. A runner "was able to run at full tilt for 42 minutes instead of 20, as formerly. A bicycle racer maintained a sprint for 15.9 minutes, whereas 10.9 minutes had been his maximum...
When dark, lanky, impetuous Howard Hughes set a world's landplane speed record of 352 m.p.h. in a plane built by his own company, it became apparent that he had, besides a genius for movies and money, the finest racer in the U. S. (TIME, Sept. 23, 1935). When he set a new transcontinental record of 9 hr., 26 min. in a standard Northrop "Gamma," it became equally apparent that he was a top-notch pilot (TIME, Jan. 27, 1936). Last week, when he got around to combining these two superlatives, the result was precisely what might have been...
...whine of his racing engine jerked heads aloft. Like an angry dragonfly, the little ship buzzed across the field, spiraled up in a chandelle. In the control tower an official timer clicked his watch. After circling a while to let a transport take off, at 1103 p. m. tired Racer Hughes alighted, ran to a telegraph office and sent a wire to Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, awaiting him in Chicago: "Safe and down in Newark." Next day he popped up in Chicago with Miss Hepburn. Crowds collected at the Marriage License Bureau, but the pair remained in their hotel. Said...
...athlete who "by his performance, example and influence' as an amateur and as a man has done most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship." There is no particular reason why these conditions should be fulfilled any better by a decathloner than by a foot-racer, polo player or yachtsman. Nonetheless, the sports experts whose poll decides the Sullivan award have come to regard it as a rare chance to make amends to decathloners for the neglect with which they are usually treated. The Sullivan award was inaugurated by the Amateur Athletic Union in 1930. Decathloner Barney...