Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...weather is good today, this record will undoubtedly be beaten again. The distances in the broad jump were surprisingly poor, but this may be partially accounted for by the heavy take-off. Considerable change in the positions as they stand at present will probably take place this afternoon. The hammer-throw is another event in which improvement is looked for today. Talbott and Horr are left to fight it out for first as Cooney unexpectedly failed to qualify...
Throwing 16-pound hammer J. R. DeWitt, Princeton...
...Throwing 16-pound hammer, trials...
Records are likely to go in the pole-vault and the hammer throw. In the latter event Talbott of Connell has consistently beaten 160 feet and recently made a throw of 167 feet and 4 inches. Cooney of Yale and Horr of Syracuse are closely matched for second place, while the fourth position should be easy for Andrus of Yale. Yale again stands out conspicuously in the pole-vault. Campbell and Nelson are both practically sure of beating the existing record of 12 feet and the new mark will probably be considerably higher. Barr of Harvard and Cook of Cornell...
Field-judges--Broad jump: E. T. Hart, Boston; J. T. Mahoney, New York A. C. High jump: H. H. Baxter, New York A. C.; G. B. Billings, B. A. a. Pole-vault: F. J. V. Delaney, Xavier A. A.; J. F. Facey, Cambridge. Hammer-throw and shot-put: J. s. Mitchell, New York A. C.; F. McGrath, Boston...