CRAZE IN AMERICA
BOOMERANG THROWING NEW YORK. Aug.>lß A reporter recently discovered that the United States Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Henry A. Wallace, regularly practises throwing a boomerang in Washington Park early in the morning. Now thousands of Americans are following suit. The publication Life „ this week devotes three pages to pictures of M.P. (Storkv) Greenwood Adams, a former Victorian athlete, the correct; method of throwing. Sports dealers report "a 50 •per cent increase in sales, and forecast a boom.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23430, 21 August 1939, Page 9
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