Word: shotput
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...hulking teen-ager stood by the shotput ring in his track suit, the muscles in his 17½-in. neck bulging, his 50-in. chest heaving in easy rhythm. Dallas Crutcher Long III spoke almost casually of distances never before achieved with the 16-lb. shot. "I should hit at least 66 feet by the end of the year." he said...
...said last night. McCurdy thinks that chances are particularly dim, since Jim Doty, the Crimson's best weight man, is still out with a broken foot sustained over a month ago. Keerd and B.U.'s Larry Cafarella, both of whom have thrown 54 feet in competition, should sweep the shotput with little opposition...
...women's events to stay close. U.S. Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly upset Russia's world's-record holder, Mikhail Krivonosov, with a heave of 220 ft. 8.88 in. Other U.S. winners: Ira Murchison (100-meter dash), Glenn Davis (400-meter run), Parry O'Brien (shotput), Ernie Shelby (broad jump), Barbara Jones in the women's 100-meter dash...
Johnson, filling the huge void caused by the absence of both Jim Doty and John DuMoulin, excelled his best-ever toss by 15 feet to win the event at 157 feet. Abbott made up for the loss of Doty by winning the shotput at a shade under 46 feet...
...tomorrow's events, which begin at 6 p.m., Harpel and John DuMoulin will compete in the hammer; Jim Doty, shotput; freshman Dan DiBona in the high jump; Pat Liles in the broad jump and pole vault; Henry Wente in the broad jump; and Lee Barnes in the 100. Wharton will enter the 440 and Benjamin the three-mile, while freshman Ed Martin will be the lone Crimson entry in the mile...