Word: throwers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to being a walking contradiction in terms-a Met slugger -Jones has another proud distinction. He is one of the few players in major-league history to be a righthanded batter and a lefthanded thrower. He came by his aberration honestly, while growing up in Mobile, Ala., the town that also produced Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey, Billy Williams and Met Teammate Tommie Agee. "We played stickball when we were kids," he explains, "and there was this porch on the first-base side. If you hit the ball up there it was lost, and it wasn...
Senior Charlie Ajootian, the Crimson's leading hammer thrower this season and Penn Relays champion, finished second Friday with a toss of 189 ft.5...
...discus is the only weight event in which Yale will be a threat. Its top man in the event, Tom Neville, has thrown the platter past the 170-foot mark this season, further than any Crimson thrower. Harvard captain Dick Benka, however, edged Neville for second place in the Heps with a throw of 169 ft. 1 in., barely a foot shy of Neville's best career throw...
Sophomore Richie Szaro hurled the spear 236', just seven feet short of the Harvard record he set in this year's Army meet. Football quarterback Frank Champi, doubling this spring as a javelin thrower, took second with a 209' throw. Rounding out the sweep was senior Henry Bernson...
...well-smashed plate expressed approval of the local bouzouki music as well as the manly exuberance of the thrower-presumably well-fueled on ouzo, the potent, anise-flavored Greek liqueur. Performers measured their success by the depth of the debris around their feet. Taverna owners loved it, since they were able to pay their bands by selling crockery to customers for up to a dollar a plate. In recent months, however, good times à la grecque were getting wilder than ever: bored with just breaking things-and perhaps bored, too, by the puritanical reign of Greece's military junta...