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...Javelin throw: L. Groslimend of Switzerland...
Having won the javelin-throw and the 10,000-metre run, the Finns held off until the pentathlon. Then Lehtonen again goaded the Americans and a Hungarian, Sonfay, sprinkled salt in the wound by taking first and second respectively, from R. Legendre. Up went the blue and white ensign on the victory flagpole a third time...
...first two events completed were the 10,000-metre run and the javelin-throw. Rushing over a muddy track, Willie Ritola took the former for Finland so fast (30 min. 23 sec.) that he smashed his own world's record. Wide, of Sweden, his arms high, wild, awkward, was 200 yds. behind. Jonnie Myyra of Finland hurled his javelin 207 ft., leaving Swedish hurlers second and sixth, Americans third and fifth...
Atwater was a member of his Freshman track team, but he won his numerals in the javelin throw, and not in the pole vault. The situation in the pole vault this year has been a peculiar one. The two Crimson letter men, D. D. Reidy '23 and H. R. Davis '23, both graduated last spring, and at the opening of the winter track season this year, it was found that not a man with experience was returning to the pole vault squad. As a result, Atwater was shifted from the javelin to the pole vault, and in the past...
...Javelin Throw.--Won by. Gibson, Princeton, 192ft. 1 7-8in.; second, Neufeld, California, 186ft. 9 1-2.; third, Dodson, California, 184ft. 8in.; fourth, Greenidge, Harvard, 178ft. 11 1-2in.; fifth, Bench, Yale, 178ft...