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...addition to these veterans, the squad that swamped Holy Cross and Rhode Island State last Saturday will be around to add to their laurels. Included in this group are the Fisher brothers, Jack and Willo, one of whom, according to Mikkola, may set a new hammer throw record if all goes well. The present record of 170 feet, 1 inch was set by W. J. Shallow...
...meet started with the hammer throw, which was held in back of the stadium. While Fisher's heave of 153 feet 11 1/2 inches won the event for the Crimson, with brother Jack's 151 feet coming in second. Jack Thorndike of Harvard came in third and Congdon of Rhode Island fourth...
Jack Fisher was high scorer for the meet with 12 points, winning the hammer throw with a mark of 153 feet 2 inches, a scant two feet further than his brother Willo reached. In addition he captured the discus with a throw of 130 feet 6 inches and took a third in the shotput...
Bright-painted vivas flecked the white walls of Santiago. Banners shouted bienvenida (welcome). From Santiago's Los Cerrillos airport to the Plaza Constitution, palm fronds and the hammer-&-sickle festooned the streets. All day and far into the torchlit night, 8,000 cheering Chilean Communists gave the first Soviet diplomat in Chilean history a pointedly ideological welcome...
Mainstays of the team, as revealed by Mikkola last night, will be former Freshman ace Dough Pirnie in the 100 and 220 dashes, 1, C. 4-A weight-throw champions Bill and Doug Fisher in the hammer throw event, and Pete Harwood in the Pole Vault...