Word: discus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson won every event in which it entered, letting Andover capture the pole vault. Yardling winners included Leo Daley with a double in the discus and weight throw; Jim Cairns in the 1000; Dave McLean in the mile; Paul Alabamian in the shot put; Mike Robertson in the 300; Dick Wharton in the 600; and Henry Moore in the high jump...
...Pasadena, Calif., Fortune Gordien, competing in a John Muir College track and field meet, broke his own official world mark in the discus throw with a prodigious toss of 194 ft. 6 in.-bettering the old record...
...featured performers: California's Parry O'Brien, 21, who had established two successive world records for shot-putting in the past few weeks with heaves of 59 ft. ¾ in. and 59 ft. 2⅜ in.; California's Sim Iness, 22, who broke the world discus record a fortnight ago with a toss of 190 ft. | in.; Kansas' Wes Santee, 21, who last month ran the fastest mile in U.S. history (4:02.4)* None of these heroes bettered his own best last week, but just as the crowd started to drift away...
...more than a year, in the Olympics and in U.S. competition, Sim Iness had come tantalizingly close to the record. This time he got the plate-shaped discus off powerfully and easily. High and far it spun, then came down with a clunk-on the far side of the little red flag. Excited officials pegged the spot, then made a careful measurement: 190 ft. f in., more than 3 ft. farther than the world record set in 1949 by Minnesota's Fortune Gordien...
...Iness jubilantly tossed his towel in the air. But he was frankly a little surprised by his heave: "The discus left my hand so easy I didn't figure it was going very far. I never spun harder, but I didn't even finish with a grunt...