Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman squad, the principal lack of men is in the shot-put and hammer-throw. However, there is plenty of opportunity for all men on the yearling squad, and the management expects a large number of candidates to report for the first call on the fifth. This track work will fill the requirements for Freshman athletics...
Spiked running shoes and cinder running paths are English inventions, and hurdle racing, shot-putting and hammer throwing likewise originated in the British Isles; yet, with all its just claims of priority in track and field events, England has never shown any marked superiority...
Material is needed for all field events--the shot-put, hammer-throw, pole-vault, the shot-put, hammer-throw, pole-valut, broad and high jumps. Lack of experience will prove no handicap. Candidates for the shot-put and hammer-throw are particularly desired...
Throwing 16-pound hammer.--Won by L. F. Weld, (D), 143 ft., 2 3-4 in.; second, C. G. Dandrow, (M. I. T.), 137 ft., 5 in.; third, J. T. Murphy, (D), 137 ft.; fourth, C. C. Smith, (Mich), 133 ft., 5 1-4 in.; fifth, A. Stevens...
...Gendre of Georgetown, but won third place by a jump of 22 feet, 8 3-4 inches. Myers' record in the pole-vault was just 6 inches higher than that of R. W. Harwood '20 who tied with three others for third. In the shot-put and hammer-throw G. A. Clark '19 and A. Stevens '19 added to the University's total by placing fourth and fifth respectively. Braden, Yale's captain, was forced to yield first place in the shot-put to W. H. Allen of Maine...