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...Finns readily agree that their average athlete is neither mentally nor physically equipped for sprint or team sports. However, a good deal of soccer is played with moderate success, basketball has been introduced by touring American teams, and a Finnish variation of baseball is played largely in the country districts by 40,000 players in 600 clubs. But Finns regard track as their national sport even more fanatically than do Americans baseball or Englishmen cricket...
During the tense days of last spring, Captain Liddell Hart was at work on a big new volume: The Defence of Britain.* Events moved so fast that he had to finish it at a sprint, a misfortune from which the finished book suffers. Its last 190 pages are too full of military detail to interest most civilians, but its first 243 pages are meaty, revealing...
With eleven meets scheduled for the coming season, Coach Peterson is watching the squad closely. Among the candidates are free-stylers Darcy Curwen of Exeter, whose older brother, Jim, is a sprint star on the Varsity team, William Stires of Lehman High, Canton, Ohio, and Frank Gorman of University School, Cleveland. William Drucker, former New Trier Township High back-stroker, and Colin Houston of Exeter, a breastroker, are other aspirants for the '43 squad...
This fact also indicates that Holles is none too sure of Jack Wilson as the stroke of the 1940 varsity. While Wilson turned in a performance last spring that spoke well for his ability, especially since he only stroked sprint races, he certainly doesn't have the power of the rangy men that make up the rest of the crew...
...workout for the giant Red Army, the invasion of Poland was only a brief sprint. For its significance-the partitioning of collapsed Poland-observers read the political dispatches from Moscow and Berlin...