Career
At the National Collegiate Athletic Association championships later that summer Favor placed third, losing to Dreyer and 1932 Olympic bronze medalist Peter Zaremba (who had been third in the IC4A meet), but at the national (Amateur Athletic Union) championships Favor again defeated both Zaremba and Dreyer, throwing 163 ft 5 3⁄4 in (4982 m) for his first and only national title. After completing his studies Favor became a teacher at his former high school, Deering High in Portland, Maine, but he continued throwing. He did not enter the 1936 Olympic season as a favorite to qualify for the American team, but at the Eastern Tryouts, a semi-final qualifying meet, he threw 177 ft 4 in (5405 m), which was his personal best.
At the final Olympic Trials Favor threw 167 ft 6 in (5105 m) and placed third behind Dreyer and another Rhode Islander, Bill Rowe.
He qualified for the Olympics by less than eight inches, his margin over Chester Cruikshank, who placed fourth. At the Olympics in Berlin Favor qualified for the final, where he threw 51.01 m (167 ft 4 11⁄16 in) and placed sixth.
He was the second-best American, behind Rowe but ahead of Dreyer.
