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Driven by the competition, the athletes shrugged off injury. Hammer Thrower Hal Connolly, 28, world record holder and 1956 Olympic gold-medal winner, was warming up when he pulled a muscle in the left side of his massive back. Asked Connolly coolly: "Is there a doctor here?" With a shot of novocain in his back, Connolly whirled out a throw of 212 ft. 3½ in. to finish second by 2 ft. 3½ in. to Al Hall, 25, a 205-lb. poultryman from Southington, Conn...
...Bruce Blair, 324th in the class, scored 711 and 658 on the tests, is the school's best discus thrower, a reserve on the football team, and one of the leads in the school opera...
...they are proving themselves equally adept at flinging insults. The main target: veteran O'Brien, a haughty sort who makes no secret of the fact that he thinks himself king of the whales. O'Brien started the war of words when he called Nieder a "cow-pasture thrower" with "atrocious form." Nieder replied angrily, accusing O'Brien of fearing to face him in direct competition. Asked Nieder at one meet when O'Brien failed to show up: "Where's the Los Angeles dodger today?" Retorted O'Brien to Nieder's charges...
After his victory, Connolly finally admitted the cause for last year's poor showing. Two days after he lost to Vasily Rudenkov, in the U.S.-U.S.S.R. meet in Philadelphia, he had surgery for a hernia that had plagued him all season. Married to Discus Thrower Olga Fikotova, Czechoslovakia's 1956 Olympic gold medalist, Connolly has a simple explanation for his new strength: "A happy marriage and eating well." Other record breakers...
Ladies First. At the end of the first day, U.S. men had won seven of ten first places, including one-two sweeps in the loo-meters, the no-meter high hurdles, the 400-meter dash, and the shotput. The only real upset in the weights was when Hammer Thrower Vasily Rudenkov got off a toss of 219 ft. to upset World Record Holder Hal Connolly...