BOOMERANG THROWING.
LATEST AMERICAN " CRAZE." (Received 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 18. A reporter 'recently discovered that the United States Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Henry A. Wallace, regularly practises throwing a boomerang in Washington Park early iir the morning. Now thousands of Americans are following suit. "Life" this week devotes three pages to pictures of M. P. (Storky) Greenwood Adams, a former Victorian athlete, demonstrating the correct method of throwing. Sports dealers report a 50 per cent increase in sales and forecast a boom.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 195, 19 August 1939, Page 9
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