Word: poundings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Putting 16 pound shot-Won by George Gray, N. Y. A. C., 43 ft. 9.5 in.; Joseph Gray, Orillia L. C., second, 41 ft. 10 in.; Duncan French, Beaverton B. C., third...
...Cambridge men are getting over the effects of the heat, which troubled them considerably when they first came to this country, and are now in excellent condition. Fitzherbert gives the different events as follows: To Yale the 16 pound shot, the hammer and the broad jump; to Cambridge the mile, the half mile and quarter, and three hundred yards; in doubt, the 100 yards dash, the high jump and two hurdle races...
Judging by the old records, everything in the weight throwing should come to the American representatives. Hickok of Yale has a record of 44 ft. 1 1/2 in. with the sixteen-pound shot, and of 135 ft. 7 1/2 in. with the sixteen-pound hammer. Cross of Yale also has thrown the hammer 135 ft., and A. Brown of this university has put the shot over forty feet. The Oxford men last year did but little in the events, G. Robertson throwing the hammer from a 30-foot ring 101 ft., and A. F. Mailing putting the shot...
...independently under advice of the Graduate Advisory Committee. Yale will be glad to meet the English universities in America. It will be hardly probable that Yale and Harvard will agree to a three-mile run. The official letter may have fuller particulars, but by 'weight-putting' only sixteen-pound shot is probably meant, as the fifty-six pound weight is not used in England. I see no advantage in having 120-yards hurdle races under both English and American rules...
Throwing 12 pound hammer, 125 ft., T. Johnson, W. A., June...