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Captain Brown of the University track team failed to place in the shot-put held on Franklia Field, Philadelphia, Saturday afternoon, the second day of the Pennsylvania-relay carnival. The event was won by R. G. Hills, a Princeton Freshman, with the distance of 46 feet, 5 inches. This result was not unexpected inasmuch as Hills has been a consistent performer with the shot for many years and gained a place on the 1920 Olympic team while still attending the Hill school...
...Baker, Princeton's all-round athlete. The Orange and Black opened the carnival auspiciously by securing three of the first four places in the hammer-throw, Emery and Hills, the latter a Freshman, gaining third and fourth respectively. It is doubtful whether Brown will do well enough in the shot-put this afternoon to add to the Crimson score...
...yards last year, will push his former rival to the limit this afternoon, while de Rham and Murphy are counted on for points in the 100-yard dash. The Freshmen are comparatively weak in the field events although Dunker should place well up to the front in the shot-put...
...shot-put R. G. Hills, a Princeton Freshman, is expected to take the measure of the big field inasmuch as he is ranked with Glenn Hartsranft of Leland Stanford Jr. University as the best college shot-putter of the country. While still a student at the Hill School, Hills gained a place on the 1920 Olympic team and he is now capable of doing 46 feet. In Thompson, the Orange and Black has another dependable entry in this event and Jordan of Yale together with Bell of Boston College will help to increase the difficulties which Brown will have...
...Shot-Put.--Won by W. A. Gilette '22, 6 ft., T. A. B. Scudder '25, 7 ft., 6 inches; third, R. H. Hallowell...