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...weight events, Captain Geoff Tootell, Trimble, and possibly Jerry Kanter will score in the shot put, with Bob Ray, Fred Raverby, and Al Wilson needing more practice. Tootell, Trimble, Wilson, and Lou Nordlinger are entered in the discus event, but only Wilson and Tootell may hit 150 feet. Dick Rubin and Erie Stromsted will throw the hammer over 100 feet in the first meet and may be close to 150 by the end of the season. Trimble, Raverby, Charlie Keith, and Phil Campbell are entered in the javelin toss, and Trimble should go way over 170 early in the season...
...established in Greenwood Cemetery, but soon all Brooklyn was occupied. The loud, tough sparrows quickly became well-adjusted Brooklynites, and they found the city a sparrow's paradise. The streets were strewn with the stable midden of the horse-&-buggy age, and under each bright streetlight was a discus of dead bugs...
...yard dash--won by Gogen; 2, Curran. Time: 4.7. 40-yard high hurdles--won by Ederer; 3, Twtichell. Time: 5.5. 300-yard run--3, Twitchell. 600-yard run--3, Brown. 1000-yard run--won by Judy. Time: 2:30.8. Discus--3, Lewis. 28-pound weight throw--won by Black; 3, Curran. Disance: 53 feeet, 11 1/2 inches. Broad jump--won by Mello. Distance: 20 feet, 6 inches. High jump--2, Mello; Lown tied for third. Pole vault--won by Mello; Lynne and Lown tied for third. Height: 12 feet...
Champion Mills, a Dorset man with a huge head and bushy black hair, came lunging across the ring at the bell. He started throwing punches to the body. Then he threw a long overhand left with a discus thrower's motion; it crunched into Maxim's face and almost ended the fight. But Joey covered up and held...
...after irate citizens had banished from exhibition a plaster cast of the Discobolus, famed Roman copy of a Myron statue, because the discus thrower was nude, Novelist Samuel (The Way of All Flesh) Butler wrote a satirical ode to the city...