Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baer, while helping his father in the butchering business in California, sometimes slugged cattle unconscious by punching them in the short ribs. Jack Dempsey, the late James J. Corbett and other pugilists have tried their hand at steer-knocking in the Chicago stockyards. The knocker wields a 3-lb. hammer, swings it down on the steer's skull, just above and between the eyes. The object is not to kill but to stun the animal to facilitate shackling for slaughter. It is a feat of skill rather than of strength. Neither Dempsey nor Corbett could match the practiced steer-knocker...
...Coast, Cahners will compete in the hammer throw, Healey in the discus, and Scheu in the 1500 meter...
Near Gainesville, Ga., Blacksmith Hamby Patterson, 70, proudly flashed a set of homemade teeth, explaining: "When my teeth begun to ache, my grandson, he got a horseshoe nail and a hammer and knocked one out. Then I decided to make some pullers and do the rest of the job myself. After all my teeth was out, I made a mold on a brick. Then I melted things from the kitchen-a dipper, boiler, or anything-and made myself these brand new aluminum teeth...
Yale's chief setbacks came in the hammer throw, in which Hilman Holcombe was the only Eli qualifier and no better than fourth among the six survivors, and the 200-metre low hurdles, where Charley Pierson and Charles Dunbar both had a hard time qualifying among the ten picked for the finals today...
...indicated as fourth place winners. Jack Schou is going to have tough sledding against Vipond and Bonthron and Venske, but some depesters give him fifth. Bob Playfair ought to bring two points to the Crimson camp by taking fourth in the 3200 and Cahners is given fourth in the hammer...