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Discus Throw. The first throw, by Jules Noel of France, was a new Olympic record?157 ft., 2 in. A few minutes later, Noel's record was broken by Henri Laborde of Stanford, with 158:3. John Anderson of the New York Athletic Club smashed Laborde's trial record with 160:3¾. Anderson's last qualifying throw, 162 ft., 4? in., was an Olympic record that will last till...
...defense Maitre Marcel Roger and Maitre Henri Geraud argued quietly that it was the sufferings of Russians under the Soviet regime which motivated Dr. Gorgulov to kill M. Doumer whom he held responsible for the existence today of trade & diplomatic relations between Russia and France...
...centre court at Roland Garros was entirely rebuilt this year, with a red clay surface even slower than before. This tended to lessen the celebrated speed of the No. 1 U. S. singles player. Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr. Combined with the fact that the U. S. team had not been impressive in the final round against Germany, it helped give France some of the confidence it had lost when Rene La Coste announced that he was too sick to play. French newspapers generously warned Vines not to eat pork and cucumber the day before he played Henri Cochet...
After the Vines-Borotra match, anything, except a defeat for sad little Henri Cochet, would have been an anticlimax. Rednecked Wilmer Allison of Texas won the first set at f-$. but all he could do after that was to make Cochet run more and rally longer than he likes to before Cochet won. 5-7, 7-5, 7-5, 6-2. In the doubles next day, Allison and his partner John Van Ryn won the first match for the U. S. against Cochet and Jacques ("Toto") Brugnon. but not until Brugnon and Cochet, playing Van Ryn's weak backhand...
...without vehemence, the way he won his other early matches. He slouched about the grounds, sprawled in locker-room chairs, apparently forgetful of the fact that he was the U. S. singles champion and therefore the most exciting entrant in the tournament with the possible exception of Henri Cochet, who was put out in the second round. When all the other U. S. players including Sidney B. Wood Jr. the defending champion, had been eliminated, Vines strolled out to play his semi-final match against Jack Crawford of Australia...