Word: shot-put
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Twelve thousand pairs of eyes stared fascinated when a youthful giant named Jack Torrance from Louisiana State stepped into the shot-put circle. A huge sign hung at one end of the stadium advertising TARZAN AND HIS MATE at the Des Moines Theatre. A hairy-legged Tarzan in his own right, Jack Torrance stands 6 ft. 6 in., weighs 275 lb. All necks craned as he picked up the 16-lb. brass ball, cocked his huge arm, stuck out his big jaw. All mouths gasped as the missile flew brightly into the air, thudded to earth far beyond the last...
Harvard will attempt to win its ninth consecutive victory over Cornell and Dartmouth in the fifteenth annual H-D-C Triangular track meet to be held tonight at 7.30 o'clock in the Boston Garden. At 2.30 o'clock in the afternoon the shot-put and 35-pound weight throw will be contested in the Briggs Cage in Cambridge...
...Shot-put: John H. Dean '34; Joseph J. Healey...
Decathlon (100-metre sprint, broad jump, shot-put, high jump, 400-metre run, 110-metre hurdles, discus throw, pole-vault, javelin throw, 1,500-metre run) went to huge James ("Jarring Jim") Bausch, insurance salesman and onetime University of Kansas footballer, who was in sixth place before the last five events, finished with a world's record score of 8,462.23. Second was Matti Jarvinen's brother Akilles with...
...Fields begins lifting weights. He loses his temper while doing so. This causes him to raise a 1,000 Ib. lump which no one else can budge and hurl it so far that in addition to the first prize for lifting weights, he gets first prize in the shot-put. Most able runner in Klopstokia is a ratty major-domo (Andy Clyde). He practices, on the way to the games, by getting out of the train and running along beside it. Later he wins the mile race by accident when chasing a girl on a motorcycle to give...