Word: shots
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Woodruff, who made the best put in the Yale athletic meeting last month, has given up practice with the shot because of his rowing on the crew...
...record of 6 feet 4 inches. The broad jump will probably be again won by Shearman, '89, last year's winner. The pole vault lies between Quinn, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Shearman, '89. Quinn is reported to have vaulted 10 feet 6 inches, The hammer and shot events are both exceedingly doubtful. If the rowing authorities would allow Woodruff, '89, to compete in the latter event, he would probably be the winner; otherwise, Hunt, L. S., may win. Columbia has nearly the same tug-of-war team that she had last year, but several of the other colleges...
...find the following facts: In the broad jump we do not equal the Englishmen, but in the high jump our records are much better. In the long distance events our time is somewhat slower, but in the short distance the records are about the same. In putting the shot we have done better, while the records in throwing the hammer show about an equal amount of ability. In the hurdle race we are still inferior.- Yale News...
...would be more poorly contested this year than formerly. Nevertheless no one was quite prepared to see such a poor exhibition as was given last Saturday, particularly in the events that are to be contested in New York in May, The one redeeming feature of the meeting was the shot putting by Pennypacker, whose efforts showed the hard and careful work he has done. In the high jumping and pole-vaulting not only were the records made much below those made last year but the number of entries also was smaller...
...Barney, '90; F. B. Myers, '90; and J. B. Henderson, '91, gave a very good exhibition. Henderson carried off the honors and was pronounced the winner of the event. Pennypacker, '88, now tried to break his record of 37 ft. 9 1-2 in, at putting the shot. He make some very good puts, only one out of the six being less than considerably over 37 feet. The best was 39 ft. 5 3-1 in. G. L. Barney, '90, and R. S. Bell, '91, alone showed up for the high jump. Barney withdrew after jumping...