Word: discus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Olympics, did poorly this year, with pale Paavo Nurmi sitting in the grandstand. Three Finns who were particularly disappointed were the Jarvinen brothers, Matti, Karlo Werner and Akilles. They had often heard stories about the 1906 Olympics from their father, Werner Jarvinen, who won the Greek style discus throw that year at Athens. Matti Jarvinen, spectacled sporting-goods clerk of Davaro, won Finland its first event last week with another implement that old Werner Jarvinen had shown him how to handle. He threw the javelin 238 ft., 7 in., an Olympic record...
Decathlon (100-metre sprint, broad jump, shot-put, high jump, 400-metre run, 110-metre hurdles, discus throw, pole-vault, javelin throw, 1,500-metre run) went to huge James ("Jarring Jim") Bausch, insurance salesman and onetime University of Kansas footballer, who was in sixth place before the last five events, finished with a world's record score of 8,462.23. Second was Matti Jarvinen's brother Akilles with...
Unaffected by the wind was the Western Conference shot put record (49 ft. 5½ in.) made by Minnesota's Clarence Munn. Two Negroes named Brooks won titles in the field. Michigan's Negro Brooker Brooks threw a discus 148 ft. 1¼ in., beating Illinois' giant Frank Purma, Kansas farmboy who has done 154 ft. 1½ in. Chicago's Negro John Brooks, a 142-lb. student of political science, crowded the Conference record broad jump, made by another Negro Dehart Hubbard, with a predicted jump...
Events today will reduce the field in the University events to six qualifiers in the discus, shot put, hammer throw, broad jump, and javelin, to semi-finalists in the sprints and hurdles, and to finalists in the 440 and 880-yard runs. The same will be true of Freshman events, with the exception of the weights, which will be run off today. The final events will take place tomorrow...