Word: throwers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best news all spring for Coach Bill McCurdy has been the development of sophomore weight man Ron Wilson, who has won six events in two meets so far. Last winter Wilson began as a mediocre weight thrower, but by the end of the season his tosses were eminently respectable...
Wilson is also a discus thrower and a rapidly improving one but he isn't yet ready to replace IC4A champion John Bakkensen, a steady 170-footer who graduated in June, or even Bill Pfeiffer, who frequently topped 160 feet. Wilson threw 150 ft. 3 in. as a freshman, however, and has impressed the coaches with his performance this spring...
...gratuitous shock seems to be Malle sporadically rebelling against the Pollyanna optimism of his genre, the happy go-lucky western. His compulsion to zoom in on open wounds, his close-ups of pock-marked faces, his pointless scrutiny of a knife-thrower accidentally wounding his apprentice: these all seem as far from the film's context as the London slums that socially-conscious Tony Richardson muscled into Tom Jones...
...Discus thrower John Bakkensen has won the IC4A title for the last two years and holds the Harvard record at 179 ft., 9 in. With Texas A & M's Randy Matson out of the meet with a pulled muscle, a throw in the mid-180's could win for Bokkensen...
...meet shapes up as an ultra-close contest between Villanova and Maryland. The Terrapins, Atlantic Coast Conference champs, have all-but-sure first places from Costello and broad jumper Mike Cole (24 ft., 11 3/4 in, this spring) and a likely first from javelin thrower Russ White (250 ft., 1/2 in., the best throw in the East...