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Reliable captain Dick Benka easily captured the shot pat with a toss of 55 ft. 7 in., nearly three feet ahead of teammate Charlie Ajootian, the runner-up. Both performers picked up more points for the Crimson later when Benka finished second in the discus throw and Ajootian came in fourth in a closely-contested hammer throw won by Harvard sophomore Ed Nosal. Only 2 1/2 feet separated the top four finishers...
...weight events, Charlie Ajootian captured the hammer throw with a 179 ft. 8 in. heave, Dick Benka won his expected shot put victory (56 ft.). Frank Champi turned in a winning 210 ft. 6 in. javelin toss, and Bruce Hedendal outthrew all of his rivals in the discus...
Charlie Ajootian and Ed Nosal will be top threats in the hammer throw tomorrow. Ajootian was the winner of the event in last weekend's Penn Relays, although Nosal edge him out in the Grater Boston's. Benka and Bruce Hedendal will form another strong duo in the discus throw. Hedendal was a fourth-place finisher in the Penn Relays...
Jake Driscoll won both the shot put and hammer throw to lead the freshman weightmen. He was backed up by Spencer Dreischarf and Steve Anderson, who collected nine points in the discus with a 1-2 sweep...
...least surprising wins of the day were Dick Benka's in the shot put (55 ft. 2 in.), and discus (165 ft. 6 in.). The Crimson's Frank Champi, hero of The Game, was victorious in the javelin with a 205 ft. 5 1/2 in. toss, followed by teammate Bill Rosenburg with a throw...