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Then he hurried back into the stadium again to leap 5 feet 10 inches to corner the high jump market. Out again for the javelin toss which won the first place medal, and, to cap off a terrific afternoon's work, a 49 foot 5 3/4 inch 16-pound shot put heave to a new meet record. This mark, incidentally, betters the Yale Varsity mark, as well as the old Freshman distance...
...while Steve Brooks snapped out of his recent slump with a 12 foot 6 inch hoist in the pole vault. Had the Crimson's Mike Ford been leaping, the home forces might have gathered more than one first place, chalked up when Jack Jackson tossed the javelin 169 feet, 5 1/4 inches, beating "Hersky" Herskovitz by six feet...
Fifteen events, seven of them field competitions, are expected to be run off, beginning at 1 o'clock with the hammer and javelin throws. It will be a heavy weekend in Cambridge, and so the meet has been telescoped to allow virtually continuous action...
...Javelin Throw--Won by Jack Jackson. Second, Monroe Herskovitz. Third, Sandy Wheeler...
Although Coach Jaakko Mikkola seems to have a strong, well-balanced Yardling track squad this season, which he calls better than last year's aggregation, he is still searching for high-jumpers, broad-jumpers, and, for the spring campaign, javelin throwers...