Word: thrower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hammer-throwers accompanied by H. S. P. Rowe '22, manager of the track team, left for Philadelphia last night. Rowe is making the trip largely for the purpose of attending a meeting of the executive committee of the I. C. A. A. A. A. The meeting will consider certain details in regard to the intercollegiate track meet to be held at Soldiers Field on May 26 and 27 of which Rowe is manager. The best chance which the University will have of breaking into the winning column at the Relay Carnival will be in the hammer-throw tomorrow although Brown...
...University's total in the majority of meets. By his work last year with his victory against the combined Oxford-Cambridge team as the climax, as well s by his record this year, ending with his recent victory in the indoor Intercollegiate he stands as the best weight thrower in the East. He will be supported by S. B. Andrew '23 and L. K. Marshall '22, both of whom have shown a marked improvement during the winter season. Captain Brown is also the leading University entry in the shot-put, though here his superiority over Benoni Lock wood...
...pentathlon men in their own country. This is very natural, because first-class results demand that a man possess a steel, sinewy, supple body. Shoulders, stomach, thighs, and calf also undergo a tearing strain. The hardest trial is demanded of that part of the body where lies the javelin thrower's soul, namely the elbow...
Simple as javelin throwing may appear to the casual bystander, it nevertheless demands a long period of constant practice from a thrower before he becomes an expert. All present-day champions have worked over extensive periods of time before they accomplished 200-foot results...
Most of our college students are half the men the Greeks were because they have given themselves half their experience. We are eminent in field sports and could probably stand up to any Greek runner, jumper or thrower but we should fall down when it came to a contest of wits requiring that suppleness of mind which comes of high thinking. A strong are and a rich mind should be the attainment of every college man as the result of systematic and persistent effort...