Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan nurses unwound thick bandages from the right eye of beefy, chocolate Sam Langford. An oldtime, hammer-handed prizefighter known to fans as "The Boston Tar Baby," Negro Langford would have been world's Lightweight Champion in 1903 if he had not been eight ounces over the weight limit when he mauled Joe Gans. In 1917 he was stalling through a fixed fight with Fred Fulton when Fulton punched his left eye so hard it had to be taken out. Soon cataracts formed over the right eye. Unable to see more than two feet ahead, Sam Langford fought...
...Hall, in spite of a sore groin, is favored to win the high jump over Fackert and Wenzell of the Nassau aggregation. Norn Cahners should heave the hammer far enough for first place, and Mac Millard is conceded first in the discus...
Dick Johnson, who has hurled the javelin 210 feet at least once this year, will take a shot at the dual meet record of 187 feet 9 inches, made in 1924, while Norm Cahners and Mac Millard will probably sew up the hammer and discus Harvard will be weak, however, in attempts for seconds and thirds in these three events...
...Hammer Throw--Cahners (H), 163 ft. 2 1-4 in. (New record); second, Crout (MIT) 139 ft. 4 in.; third, Kinraide (MIT), 132 ft. 4 1-2 in.; fourth, Brown (H), 129 ft, 7 5-8 in.; fifth, Murphy...
Though held down in the shot-put to a meagre fifth, Harvard's field men placed first in javelin, discus, and hammer throw, with four other point-winners in these events. Dick Johnson's throw of 210 ft., 8 1-2 inches in the javelin bettered the present Harvard record but was disallowed because of the favoring wind, Malcolm Millard's throw of 152 ft., 1 1-4 in. won the discus...