Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...records which seems certain to withstand assaults in the fiftieth annual I. C. A. A. A. A. championships at the Harvard Stadium May 28th and 29th is the mark of 181 feet 6 1-2 inches which Frederick D. Tootell of Bowdoin established in 1923. That mark, made the year before he won the Olympic title, was ten feet further than any other throw in the history of the association. It was more than 105 feet better than the original I. C. A. A. A. A. record for this event and it is my belief that the improvement in this...
...observations and experience of hammer throwing dates back to the days of John Flannigan and later Matt McGrath and still later Pat Ryan, the present world record holder. These famous Irish athletes were all big, powerful men, weighing well over 225 pounds, and standing over six feet in height, while the present college hammer throwers are rarely of that size...
Tootell, the present I. C. A. A. A. A. record holder was a young man of 22, six feet one inch in height and weighing 210 pounds at his heaviest. Johnny Merchant of California was in my opinion the greatest little man that ever threw the hammer. Merchant weighed about 185 pounds and stood about five feet ten inches in height; he held the I. C. A. A. A. A. record in 1922. Another great little man was Bill Quinn, the former field coach at Harvard, who weighed only 163 pounds and could throw the hammer 165 feet...
...spite of the fact that Maxey Long is the officially accredited holder of the world's record for the quarter mile, in which he was timed in 47 seconds fiat, in my opinion a better performance was made in 1915 by James E. Meredith at the National Championship in San Francisco in the Senior 440 yards, in which he equalled Long's mark, but the record was not allowed...
...which two runners, P. J. Walsh of New York Athletic Club, and W. S. Edwards of Knickerbocker Athletic Club, paced him for half of the distance on a specially prepared course on the old Guttenberg Race Track some 25 years ago. Long was a marvelous runner, and his record of 47 4-5 around a handicap field at Travers Island subsequently proved, to my way, of thinking, that he was the second best quarter miler on record, in as much as Meredith's 47 2-5 at Cambridge in 1916 was run under about similar conditions...