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Weight man Bob Curran heaved the hammer over 163 feet for a first place there, while Phil Pratt captured the discus with a throw of 149 feet four and one-eighth inches...
...absent-Eugene Constantin Jr's Royal Bay Gem charged up from dead last at the halfway mark to win the $34,050 Chesapeake Stakes by two lengths over ten other Derby eligibles ¶ln Palo Alto, Calif., U.S.C Olympian Sim Iness bettered his own N. C. A. A. discus mark by a full 2 ft. New record: 185 ft. 5¼ in. World record...
...weight events also present a big problem. Art Siler and Red Snodgrass can put the shot only a little over 40 feet, which probably won't be good enough outdoors. The discus event is in fair shape, with Art Siler and Bob Morrison both around 130 feet. The javelin is the biggest problem, since Pete Morrison, capable of throwing 170 feet, will not be out this spring. The hammer, so far, is being handled by Win Smith and Bob Keith, but both boys need a lot of practice...
Taking first place in every event but the hammer and discus, the track team ran rough shod 78 to 30 over an Andover squad that last week tripped Yale. Bob Morrison in the 300 and 600 yard runs, and Fletcher Hodges in the broad jump and high jump were the Yardling' only double winners...
...representative from all the countries mixed," he says. "The Russians were very friendly. We could visit them and they came to us." Hawkins thinks that Americans are all wrong about the Russian women. "Some of them were quite nice. The only ones that made the newspapers were the discus throwers...