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...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...
...hammer-thrower, Brown showed remarkable development under the tutelage of field event coach E. L. Farrell, and by the end of the spring season was recognized as one of the leading weight men in the country. At the beginning of the season 140 feet was his limit, but he increased this distance to 146 feet in the Princeton meet, 149 in the Intercollegiates, and in the Cambridge-Oxford-Harvard-Yale meet he tossed the hammer 159 feet, easily beating Nokes, the Oxford star, and bettering his own previous record by over ten feet...