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...javelin throw presents the only grounds for complant on the freshman team. Reynolds has never done it before, and Jim Walker is also a novice. But the latter threw the spear 158 feet against Rhode Island and is doing better every...
...javelin, Captain Charlie Keith and Fred Ravreby have already been averaging 180 to 190 feet and with practice can do better. The long spear throw is still track's trickiest event...
...railway worker and great-grandson of a Methodist bishop, Bradford picked up his Runyonesque jargon as a carnival piano player, horse trainer, apprentice embalmer, boxer ("I was stomped on up and down the border for five pesos and a bowl of chili per fight"). He once carried a spear in Aïda when Caruso sang Radames...
Atomic physics last week settled another anthropological argument: the age of Folsom Man. Ever since 1926, when a peculiar stone spear point was found at Folsom, N. Mex., U.S. archeologists have debated the antiquity of the culture that produced it. Some argued that the oddly grooved "Folsom points" were made by ancestors of modern Indians only some four or five thousand years ago. Others were sure that they were 10-20,000 years old and were made by nomadic hunters far more primitive than the Indians...
...judge by. The grooved points have showed up all over the southwest and as far east as Virginia, but Folsom Man apparently built no dwellings, and he did not leave his bones where they would be preserved for modern diggers. Chief argument for his antiquity was that his characteristic spear points are often found associated with the bones of animals, particularly a kind of now-extinct bison (Bison taylori). But not all experts were convinced by such evidence; Bison taylori, they objected, may have been around until fairly recent times...