Word: discusion
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...outdoor meet schedule differs from the indoor list of events in several insidious ways. There are two sprint events instead of one, and two hurdle races instead of one. The spring program includes javelin and discus throws in addition to the five winter field events. And the two-mile relay, the windup on the winter schedule, is not run outdoors...
...Poland's Edmund Piatkowski. Fortnight ago in Frankfurt, he broke the record convincingly with a heave of 198 ft. 7 in. Not content with last week's record toss in Brussels.Silvester intends to stay in the throwing ring until he has flung the discus past that magic barrier...
...plan a full-blown four-week tour anyway, with meets in Stuttgart, London and Warsaw, following the Moscow competition. The result: nine men, nearly one-fourth of the 41-man U.S. team, reluctantly refused to make the trip. "The A.A.U. works for the A.A.U. on these trips," growled Olympic Discus Champion Al Oerter, one of the defectors. He spoke from bitter experience. In 1958 the A.A.U. wanted him to go on a similar, month-long tour, but agreed to permit him to compete only against the Russians, then get back to earning a living for himself and his pregnant wife...
...field events, the shot put seems likely to be a close contest: Cambridge's David Harrison is an even match for Sarge Nichols and Steve Cohen of Harvard. Harvard and Yale should salt away the discus, pole vault, and high jump, while the English are safe bets in the javelin...
...Crimson was superb in the field events. Stan Doten gave the varsity its only first with a 189 ft., 10 in, heave in the hammer, as Ted Bailey took second and Roger Wilson fifth. John Bronstein was fifth in the discus...