Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pole Vault: A. C. Gilbert, Yale; Judge: Mark S. Wright, Dartmouth, Measurer. Throwing the Javelin: Allan Winter Rowe, M. I. T., Judge; James A. Leyden, Penn State, and Leslie H. Simons, Princeton, Measurers. Throwing the Discus: Walter Tufts, Harvard, Judge; J. E. Hickley, Brown, Measurer. Putting, the 16 Ib. Shot: E. L. Hopkins, B. A. A., Judge; J. R. Truesdale, Princeton, and J. B. Mulford, Pennsylvania, Measurers. High Jump: Wesley Aler, Yale, Judge; Barrett Smith, Cornell, and Rush M. Hoag, Michigan, Measurers. Throwing the Hammer; F. X. McGrath, B. A. A., Judge; H. F. Barker, Princeton, and N. Shennan, Dartmouth...
...athletes turned in meritorious performances considering the lack of background they possessed. There is little to prove whether these trail-blazers ran up-hill or down-hill; whether the records were established with or without the aid of the wind, and in those days the circles for the shot-putters and hammer throwers were not so well defined as the steel rings which...
...yards 2.05.30 1.59.70 1.55.90 One mile 4.46.10 4.27.80 4.20.15 Ft. In. Ft. In. Ft. In. High jump 5.08 1-4 5.11 1-2 6.02 1-6 Pole vault 9.07 1-4 11.04 1-6 12.06 1-2 Broad jump 20.10 3-4 22.07 3-4 23.05 1-4 Shot put 36.08 1-4 43.02 1-2 47.01 1-2 Hammer...
...period of similar length. One reason for this odd development traces to the presence of two of the world's most wonderful athletes in the pre-war era: John Paul Jones of Cornell and Ted Meredith of Penn. But that does not explain why the furlong sprint, the shot put and the pole vault averages for the post-war period have failed to measure up to the figures established in the eight years before the war. Here are the figures...
...exactly like an oyster, and he speculates in an ingenious diversion of ways as to what happens to the oyster when it leaves its bed. He gets mixed up in his chum's love affairs, attempts suicide because he has been called a traitor and traitors should be shot, and variously displays the pellucid simplicity of his nature, like the dear old boy he is. Norman Fanchild plays the Oyster; and he does things to an impossible role. The comedy of the piece is so broad that no mortal could look across it; he alone of the company plays...