Word: shot-put
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...A.U.S. team of track & field athletes: a meet against the combined teams of South African and Transvaal Universities, at Johannesburg, South Africa; by winning ten out of twelve events, in four of which (discus, pole-vault, shot-put, javelin-throw) Pennsylvania's Bernard ("Barney") Berlinger made new South African records...
...throwing champion; George Spitz, N. Y. U. freshman who high-jumped well over six feet when he was a school boy and now holds the world's unofficial indoor record; Barney Berlinger, Pennsylvania's all-around man; Herman Brix, blond Los Angeles giant who had won the shot-put championship three years in a row and won it again last week; Eddie Tolan, Michigan's stubby Negro, and many another runner who has not yet been outrun by renown. The red track in Lincoln's municipal stadium was fast and hard the first breezy day, when...
...throwing the discus, javelin, hammer. Late in the afternoon, Michigan and Illinois were still ahead, nearly tied, with four events still undecided. Wisconsin, almost overlooked, had won the high jump and the two-mile run (establishing a new Conference record), placed second in the mile, the 440, and the shot-put. Kabat's discus throw, 150 ft. 10½ in., nowhere near the record but five feet better than Purma of Illinois could do, decided the championship-for Wisconsin. Michigan's relay team (Eknovich, De Baker, Glading, Russell) broke the Conference record in the mile relay, but Illinois...
...Shot-put, Clarence Munn of Minnesota broke one of the oldest records of the meet when he sent the shot flying...
Bernard Berlinger, 21, 6 ft. i in., 193 lb., captain of the Penn team, a student in the Wharton School of Finance, is a fair runner, a good jumper, a fine discus thrower, indoor intercollegiate shot-put champion, and a pole vaulter so proficient that only a few specialists, shooters for world's records, can beat him over the high bar. This year he wanted to break the world's decathlon record and make sure of a place on the Olympic team. He felt he could do it if he got better at the 1,500-metre...