Word: shotputting
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With Croasdale sitting out the shotput, Ray Frieden captured first place with a heave of 47 ft, 8 in., well short of his 50-foot-plus put at Army...
...event this year, was right behind him at 55 ft. 5 in. It was the first time Bakkensen had cracked the 55-foot mark, and it left coach Bill McCurdy pretty certain that he has the East's best one-two punch in the event. Croasdale also took the shotput...
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...Into the shotput circle at California's Occidental College strode Dallas Crutcher Long III, known to his friends as the Prince of Whales. Hefting a 16-lb. iron ball in one hammy hand, he crouched low, tucked the ball behind his right ear, and began to inch back his left foot like a second-story man feeling his way down a ladder in the dark. Suddenly, he dipped and flung himself bodily across the ring. A grunt, a gasp-the shot soared through the air and thudded into the turf 66 ft. 3½ in. away. For the second...
...hurling the shot 65 ft. 3 in. on his first try, then uncorked a toss of 66 ft. 7¼ in. - a full ¾ in. over his own listed world record. But it went for naught: Fresno officials had unaccountably neglected to put a steel ring around the shotput circle as international rules require...