Word: javelins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), husky (210 lb.), young (33), Adam Powell is handsome, lightskinned, a fluent speaker, a good showman. He went to Colgate University, hurled the javelin on the track team, worked summers as a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. After a year in theological seminary, he stepped into a ready-made job as assistant pastor of his father's Abyssinian Baptist Church, whose 14,000 members are the largest Protestant congregation in the world...
...regard to the event's being dangerous for spectators, Coach Mikkola said, "There isn't one event that isn't dangerous if isn't properly run. The javelin throw is usually held in the center of the field in a roped-off space; and since a throw goes only 20 or 30 feet off its course, there is hardly any chance for speciators to be injured if they stay put and aren't careless...