Word: hammer-throw
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Pole-Vault and Hammer-Throw...
...handicap pole-vault competition scheduled for yesterday was postponed again, because of high winds which made vaulting difficult. Weather permitting this event will take place at 4 o'clock this afternoon, and all men who have ever done any vaulting should enter the competition. A hammer-throw competition will also be held on the field at 4 for which all men in the University who have ever thrown the hammer are expected to report...
...Queen's Club, London, resulted in a tie, each university winning five out of the ten events. Cambridge won the 100-yard dash, the quarter-mile run, the half-mile run, the 120-yard hurdle race, and the broad jump, while Oxford captured the weight putting event, the hammer-throw, the high jump, the mile run, and the three mile...
...accidents in recent years have not all by any means been due to carelessness: they are apparently an inherent risk of the hammer-throw as it is at present constituted. It may be unwise to abolish altogether an event which tests so well both strength and skill. But another year should not go by without a radical modification of the throw to eliminate its objectionable features. Whether this should be by increasing the weight of the hammer, by decreasing the length of the handle, or by some other means, is for experts to determine. The change should at any rate...
...events will be the usual ones save in three respects. There will be no one-mile run or hammer-throw, and the high hurdles will be for 70 instead of 120 yards. All events will be from scratch. Cups will be given to the winners of first and second places...