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...best material is concentrated in the weight events which will not be included in the indoor program. Bob Sears of Andover, a hammer thrower, will be lost until spring, as will Fulton Cahners, in the javelin. Cahners is the brother of Norman Cahners '36, Varsity weight and sprint man. Another promising weight man, according to Mikkola, is Dan Dyer, who will put the shot indoors and throw the discus outside...
...chances are, however, that a fairly well balanced team can be developed around the nucleus of Bill Wilson, former Exeter interscholastic high jump and hurdle point winner; Joe Donnelty. Andover iron man in the 300 and 440; and Bob Gammons, Andover sprint see for the dashes...
...Cleveland, on his 60th wedding anniversary, William W. Britton, 78, recalled that before his marriage: "I used to pass Sarah's house every day on the railroad. She lived one block from the tracks and I could hop off the front of the freight train, sprint that block, snatch a kiss and then catch the rear end of the train. Used to do it all the time but I had to move fast. I met Sarah at a train wreck. I crawled out from underneath a pile of tank cars and saw her when she walked down to look...
With the tape a bare hundred yards away, however, Playfair surged by Woodland in a magnificent sprint. Increasing the gap with every stride, Harvard's captain broke the tape twenty-five yards ahead of his opponent, furnishing an almost precise duplicate of his victory over Bonthron in 1933, when Playfair overtook Princeton's ace runner some eighty yards from the tape, to lead the Mikkolamen to victory...
While Germany prepares to hold the 1936 Olympic Games, the world's two other great troublemaking nations, Italy and Japan, have been quarreling bitterly for the honor of the 1940 Olympics. For Japan, whose sprint swimmers made an astounding sweep of the 1932 Olympics, the quarrel has become a bitter national issue, a crucial matter of forcing the Western World to admit once and for all that it no longer considers the Japanese an inferior race...