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This year's Harvard team, however, isn't the same as the one last year's reunion class saw hammer out a 3-2 win over the Bulldogs in a game called after six innings on account of rain. That team won 21 games, lost two and tied one, and went undefeated in Eastern League play, for Harvard's best baseball record in 80 years...
...Croasdale, Harvard's captain, took a third place in that meet at 189 ft., 10 in., then the best throw of his life. 189 feet might not even win a place this year; seven hammer throwers have gone over 190 feet, and one, Alex Schulten of Bowdoin, reached...
...made it four new world records in the space of seven days. The others: a 27-ft. 5-in. broad jump by current Record Holder (at 27 ft. 41 in.) Ralph Boston, 26, who topped 27 ft. on three of his six leaps; a 233-ft. 2-in. hammer throw by Harold Connolly, 33, stretching his own three-year-old record...
...flags into Djakarta from points as distant as Bali (560 miles), tied up the capital's Mercedes and betjak (pedicab) traffic for three hours with a torchlight parade that ended in an effigy-burning of Uncle Sam and the Tunku. Over the whole scene reared a 40-ft. hammer and sickle woven from straw and bamboo...
...other Crimson points came from captain Art Croasdale, third in the hammer throw, and lanky junior Chris Pardee, third in the high jump...