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1932-06-15 [P D-2] United States Is Picked to Take Majority of Field Events in Olympic Games THEY DON’T SPEAK OUR LANGUAGE. WEBSTER Doping the Olympic Winners FARMER TO DIRECT —By SHARKEY DECLARED The principal contenders for Olympic honors in the field events, American and foreign, appear as follows: * Indicates prospective winner. ATHLETICS AT IN TRIM Event. American Contender*. TALE AND IN OF THEM Contenders. CALM ! THE Foreign Shotput.*Brix, Sexton. Hirschfeld (G), Douda <CZ>, Hart (SA>. May Clean Up in Pole Vault, Discus .'Jessup, Anderson, Winter (Fr), Remecz Former Foot Ball Halfback, Shows Poise That Has Been Jones. (H). and Discus Javelin .Churchill, DeMers. 'M. Jarvinen (Fin), Now a Manufacturer, to Lacking Prior to in High Jump Penttila (Fin), Lund- Fights quist (S), Sule (E). at Los • Take 1. Angeles. Hammer.Connor, Wright, Me- O’Callaghan (I), Lind Charge July Past—Weighs 203. Dougall. and Skold (S), Por- hola (Fin). BY ALAN GOULD, HAVEN, Conn., June 15 — BY EDWARD J. NEIL. Broad jump.... 'Barber, Bates. Nambu (J).Cator (Ha). Associated Press Sports Editor. Malcolm (Mac) Fanner of Hart- Associated Frtts High jump.'Spitz, Marty, Nelson. Kimura (J). Sport* Writer. YORK, June 15.—Such Pole vault.'Graber,Barnes,Brown. Nishida (J), Lindblad NEWford, Conn., former Yale half- N. Y., June back and for the last two are the peculiar turns of (S). year* 15 (JP).—Jack Sharkey, Hop, step, jump.. Bowman, Casey, 'O shim a, Oda and a member of Yale's alumni Foot Ball athletic fortune that if, as Kelley. freah from his shower NEW Nambu (J). Committee, will be the new head of ORANGEBURG, seems likely, the United and Decathlon .Bausch.Berllnger.Stew- 'A. Jarvinen (Fin), Yale athletics, it has been announced rubdown, lolled about States scores better than ever on the art. Yrjola (Fin). by Dr. James Rowland Angell, presi- dining room In his training the Olympic track this year, our Legend—<CZ) Czechoslovakia: (E) Esthonia; (Fin) Fin- dent of the university. Farmer has camp quarters, resplendent in land; (Fr) France; <G) (H) (Ha) “Thc oopc tpics A r~ boys may be less fortunate than Germany; Hungary; Haiti; been appointed chairman of the board f j soft browns, waiting for the din- (I) Ireland; (J) (S) Sweden. -ro lam But t ^T’S r,M€( usual in the field events. Japan; of athletic control of the Yale Athletic ( ner bell. CUFFS HIM ANO /'*e vou '"'LL Heretofore we have been able to count Association, effective July 1. j was calm FCADV FOP II Re and contented. He is the duties of the H€‘5 &OOD FOP I on clinching the team championship by He will assume ottct, bigger, stronger than ever and he had which, under the recently revised con- rolling up Impressive point totals In the Is Crew just outclassed Joe Seicyra In a boxing Washington Mystery stitution of the athletic association, will fine arts of jumping, vaulting and and punching match, the best drill of the functions hereto- weight-heaving. It seems, therefore, include performed •11 his training for the 15-round heavy- As It for Title Race fore the chairman of the board and that while America has been concen- Prepares by weight title match with Max Schmel- director of athletics. He trating on a drive to regain foot racing the graduate ing on Long Island next Tuesday night. over the offices held by His weight, now around 203 prestige, foreign have been thus will take pounds, competitors n. y„ June from last year’s Junior varsity, is at was responding readily to treatment. spending a good share of their time Prof. R. Selden Rose, chairman of the 15.—The mystery crew at No. 4. and three experienced varsity He is hitting harder than ever before Improving themselves In recognized board, and John M. Cates, director of oarsmen are in the bow—Parrott, No. in seven tumultuous years as a heavy- American specialties. Poughkeepsie this year is Wash- Poughkeepsie, 3; Williamson, No. 3, and MJorud. bow. athletics. weight contender. There was a calm The definite Good—Also Better. ington. only thing Last year's varsity coxswain steers the and ease about an evenness of A Foot Ball Enthusiast. him, known about it is that in the shell. temper, that he had left far be- though we might ask for no April usually After Farmer Is known as a foot ball en- hind at this stage of THUS,better shotputters than Herman Huskies were defeated by California by Worcester Peaghkeepeie. past training thusiast. His appointment follows the campaigns. Brix and Leo Sexton, the fact is like 16 In After the defeat by California, something lengths rough announcement of new Yale policies in that Hlrschfeld of Germany, Franz Dou- Washington was quite discouraged and | water. The defeat gave the Washing- the matter of reduction of foot ball **T SEE, he said by the way of open- da of Czechoslovakia or Harry Hart of interest was so low that it was semi- ton crew a and elimination of the junior 1 ing the discussion, "that the rough-water complex, announced that the crew schedules, South Africa may crash through to win. officially would ---1^ w f the task of A1 Ulbrickson, the coach, varsity squad and other curtailments in 7 t; ‘Dutchman’ has changed his style Similarly, we have a fine group of not come to the Hudson. Financial has been to shake it off. Whether or foot ball practice. Toi M of fighting. He doesn’t bob and weave young broad-jumpers, led by Dick Bar- support in the Northwest among the SAV, ler'^ ThoSG PALOOKAS? 6 LOS SAP v not he has done so is a mystery. Farmer, who was graduated from any more He stands up straight and ber of Southern California, but Japan loyal alumni, however, was so enthu- cos amd thG Ball Before the crew started East there Yale with the class of 1904 In the whv,'Th€tv don't comes in jabbing. Is that so?’’ and Haiti have each developed 26-foot siastic that funds for the trip were AND CHAIM T'MKiHT HVPO-- .Df?OC ADDICT OP was a final time row. No official time Sheffield Scientific School, will become SPCAhr OOP PCDOLCP That wss admittedly so. performers. One of them, Cator of forthcoming promptly. That Washing- a COT was given out. but reports from Seattle a member of the faculty, stipulation HG'5 AMMIG I ALL DSHJ6 "Then why," demanded Sharkey, "if holds the world record ton has come here to enter LAM6UAG»e'. WHIT€STUFF____ Haiti, recognized prepared in the was on indicate that it was exceptionally good. of the revised constitution marking l OARLGYS. —--' TMCV talk ASOOT OBTAIN ’Dutchman’ going to come of 26 feet >8 inch, and Nambu of Japan the Olympic trials at Worcester is a to f?OP€_1t> INFORMATION FROM So good, in fact, that there is no a turning point from alumni faculty and beat me with his old style, as some has done 2 Inches better. sure indication that this crew is prize- Fiahts! reason counting the Huskies out of the pretty control. He will hold the rank of pro- Frail__g.iri_ people seem to think he would have The Irish, represented by Dr. O'Cal- is no mediocre combination. L —1—' running simply because they took a fessor FLOf* ...--HANOOUT done two years ago, has he decided to and the Swedes look to be the The final time trials at Lake Wash- laghan, bad drubbing last April. Washington As chairman of the board of control LOOT-UEUTEMANT change? best in the hammer throw. The Finns were over the 3,000-meter Olym- at the men hereabouts will tell you that the ington Farmer "will be unequivocally "I’ll tell you. Schmeling took an and Swedes outclass even our much distance and not over the 4-mile SPOT_IDGnTIFiCATiOn crew hasn’t a look-in, but their faces pic head of the university's athletic or- awful licking for four rounds until he national at javelin course. There is no question about the of improved champions do not wear a serious expression when ganization, carrying out the policies Ta/iST.___„<SiPL won our first light on a foul. He Huskies being out to get California. tossing. they say it. the board of control.” according to Dr. ogadfali_<£amo"lin<l 30INT wasn't going to come on and win later. The Japanese have made an issue of It is a big crew, averaging close to ; Angell's announcement. FAN FOf? He was going to take a bigger beating the and Mikio Out to Beat in and 6 feet 2 <LAT_SGAPCH FOP Com hop. step jump, following California. 1*0 pounds weight Farmer has long been interested and the farther the went. And he at and There should be lam -fscarc fight Oda’s triumph Amsterdam, fig- It appears that Washington i* out to inches in height. identified with Yale athletics. As an knows that. ure to this trick event. In the of in the shell. C<JF sweep erase the memory of the defeat by plenty power undergraduate he was active in foot FS-HANDCUFFS "So he's changed his style and he's a decathlon, nothing short of an earth- Ulbrickson regards this year's field at the California rather than to win the ball and base ball. He captained -_3€mT€nC€ to "Sail boxer now The other way wouldn't do. can stop either Akilles Jarvinen as the strongest in years quake regatta. Ulbrickson, in his estimates Poughkeepsie Yale freshman eleven in 1900 and Ball and chain Anything Is an improvement.
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