Word: pentathlon
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...somewhat similar nature is a new feature of the University season. This is a pentathlon, which is to be held the week after the intercollegiate. The system that will be used in judging this is as follows: in the first event a certain number of men, probably 10, will be qualified. Only these 10 will be allowed to enter the second in which the number will be cut to seven or eight. The winner of the last event becomes by this process the winner of the pentathlon...
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...
...throwing events the javelin requires of its master the most all-round athletic ability. The best men in javelin throwing have been, without exception, pentathlon men in their own country. This is very natural, because first-class results demand that a man possess a steel, sinewy, supple body. Shoulders, stomach, thighs, and calf also undergo a tearing strain. The hardest trial is demanded of that part of the body where lies the javelin thrower's soul, namely the elbow...
...National Amateur Athletic Pentathlon championship held on Traverse Island yesterday. E. O. Gourdin 1L., scored twelve points and secured first place. Gourdin holds the world's broad jump record and is also strong in the dashes. His principal opponent was Shies of New York, recent winner of the national Dacathlon title...
...Navy would be represented at the relay carnival, this being the first time that the Annapolis track team has been given permission to compete away from home. The "Middle" team will enter the distance medley relay the two-mile college relay, the discus and javelin throws, and the Pentathlon...