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...Brundage's other case was Mark Weston. Mary Edith Louise Weston was born in England 30 years ago. Among Englishwomen she was the best shotputter from 1924 to 1930, the best javelin thrower in 1927. Miss Weston had a close friend, named Alberta Bray. Two months ago Dr. L. R. Broster of London's Charing Cross Hospital performed two operations to complete Mary Weston's metamorphosis into masculinity. Said Dr. Broster: "Mr. Mark Weston, who was always brought up as a female, is male, and should continue life as such." As to whether Mark Weston could have...
...thrower throws the ball at a certain height toward the catcher of his team against the hitters of the adverse team. The catcher must catch the ball if it is not captured by the wooden baton of the hitter. The defending team also had four men who guarded the rhombus and tackled runners, as well as three people who guard the outlying section of the rhombus in order to capture the ball for their own team...
Second stage was comments by Chairman Brundage, who two years ago tried to have Swimmer Jarrett declared a professional; Track Coach Dean Cromwell of Southern California; Nazi newspapers. Said Chairman Brundage. onetime University of Illinois hammer thrower who has stayed in the spotlight as president of the Amateur Athletic Union: "We had no alternative in the circumstances. None regrets the necessity for such drastic action more than I and my associates, who considered all possible grounds for leniency and found none...
Cahners has been a leading hammer thrower on the track team for the past three years, and will speak on athletics at Harvard, while Miller won the Lee Wade Speaking prize. He is to speak on the general topic of "Harvard Indifference...
From what has been seen so far, it seems that the Freshman squad which had an almost disastrous season during the winter will be bolstered in the field events by a pair of discus twirlers and a hammer thrower. Bob Scars has been taken in hand by Jaakko and has improved his form in the hammer considerably. Yesterday he was flinging it over his shoulder out toward the hundred-foot mark and gives promise of better things before the year is over...