Dittmer Is Star Athlete at Simmons

• – This newspaper clipping, with the headline ?Dittmer Is Star Athlete at Simmons?, is about Frances Dittmer breaking three records at the Simmons College track meet. The article contains a large photograph of Dittmer holding a basketball.
• – "Dittmer Is Star Athlete at Simmons FRANCES DITTMER, SIMMONS COLLEGE ATHLETE She broke three records yesterday--the javelin throw, basketball throw, and the shotput--at the college track meet. Miss Frances Dittmer of 36 Francis Street, Brookline, class of 1917, yesterday bore off the athletic honors at the track meet at Simmons College, breaking three recordsin shot putting, javelin throw and basket ball throw. The field day cup was awarded to the class of 1917, which scored 28 points against 26 secured by the class of 1919. The exceptional showing of Miss Dittmer made the largest single contribution to the senior's victory. She won 15 of the senior's 28 points and thereby won the individual cup. Another college record thatwas broken at the track meet yesterday was in the running broad jump. Miss Helen von Kolnitz, 1920, of Charleston, S. C., established the record"

• – Dittmer, Frances

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