Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bicycle race, C. A. Reed of Columbia, a former wizard on the wheel, will burn the cinders once more from a precarious height. Reed captured the bicycle title in 1881 and in 1883 and came back for second place...
...then, here and there, as Biblical researchers probe into moldy monastery caches or Roman tumuli, they bring to study some off-hand reference to the Man. One student, from some remnants of manuscript, puts His height at 5 ft. 2 in. (TIME...
...observations and experience of hammer throwing dates back to the days of John Flannigan and later Matt McGrath and still later Pat Ryan, the present world record holder. These famous Irish athletes were all big, powerful men, weighing well over 225 pounds, and standing over six feet in height, while the present college hammer throwers are rarely of that size...
Tootell, the present I. C. A. A. A. A. record holder was a young man of 22, six feet one inch in height and weighing 210 pounds at his heaviest. Johnny Merchant of California was in my opinion the greatest little man that ever threw the hammer. Merchant weighed about 185 pounds and stood about five feet ten inches in height; he held the I. C. A. A. A. A. record in 1922. Another great little man was Bill Quinn, the former field coach at Harvard, who weighed only 163 pounds and could throw the hammer 165 feet...
...essential qualifications for a successful hammer thrower are height, weight and strength coupled with speed in throwing. The training in this event for the college man consists of many years of concentrated work. It is, however, quite possible to develop a thrower during his college career, to break Tootell's present record of 181 feet 6 1-2 inches. Tootell himself never had any scholastic experience but took up this event for the first time during his undergraduate days at college...