Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...team during the week, raising the total number of candidates to nearly 230. The number of candidates for the different events is approximately as follows: mile and two-mile, 57; half-mile, 50; quarter-mile, 30; sprints, 50; hurdles, 17; high-jump, 12; broad-jump, 26; pole-vault, 10; hammer-throw, 8; shotput...
...milers on Thursday for the first time ran 12 laps around the track, a distance of three miles. Next week Mr. Clark will devote more time to the weight men, who up to now have had little systematic coaching. At present more candidates are especially needed for the hammer-throw, the shot-put and the pole-vault...
...beginners in the weight events; from 11 to 12.30, high-jumpers, broad-jumpers and pole-vaulters; from 3 to 3.30, sprinting squads--candidates for the 100, 220 and 440-yard dashes; from 4 to 5, half-milers, milers, two-milers and hurdlers; and from 5 to 6, hammer-throwers. These hours, however, are only provisional, for if a man has engagements which regularly conflict with the hour when his squad reports, he may arrange to come out at any other time...
...where he played on the football and baseball teams. At Yale, he has played on the eleven for three years; and last year was a substitute on the baseball nine. He has also been a member of the university track team for two years, and last spring won the hammer-throw event in the dual games with Harvard, and in the international games in England...
Harvard has no experienced hammer thrower. At Yale Shevlin and Harris are the best, although Hogan and Tripp have already shown some ability...