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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...
...sports, javelin, discus, hammer throwing, shot putting and archery cause a lopsided muscular development. The recent War rationalized shot putting and discus throwing for grenade throwing. Cudgeling and knifing, which have not survived as warlike sports, were also useful. But not archery or javelin throwing...
...Discus throw--won by Francis Schumann '35 (23 feet); second, J. J. Healy '34 (scratch); third, H. A. Ham '33 (16 feet). Distance...
...afternoon, J. C. Grady '33 defeated E. E. Record '32, captain of the track team and intercollegiate hurdle champion, in both hurdles events in the University handicap meet Saturday. The other high point winner was Francis Schumann '35, who carried away first places in both the pole vault and discus throw. A chilling wind, which lasted all afternoon, contributed much to take away the ardour of the competitors and interest of the spectators...
...A.U.S. team of track & field athletes: a meet against the combined teams of South African and Transvaal Universities, at Johannesburg, South Africa; by winning ten out of twelve events, in four of which (discus, pole-vault, shot-put, javelin-throw) Pennsylvania's Bernard ("Barney") Berlinger made new South African records...