Word: throwers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hanover strongmen threaten to go one-two in the shot and javelin, so shot-putter Jay Hughes and javelin-thrower Adrian Tew have their work cut out for them...
...field events, freshman star Mel Embree will high jump, Jay Hughes will throw the 16-pound hammer and Dick Gilbane is the lone Harvard discus thrower. Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace will compete in the long jump and triple jump. Ahmed Kayali will join Vanderpool-Wallace in the triple jump. Jim Kleiger and Blayne Heckel will be the team's pole vaulters...
...ever seen." Clemente also possessed the strongest throwing arm of any outfielder: from 420 ft. away, he once fired a perfect strike to the plate to nip the runner trying to score from third. The accuracy he ascribed to his training as a high school javelin thrower, the strength to his mother. "My mother had the same kind of arm," he once explained. "She could throw a ball from second base to home with something on it. I got my arm from...
...enter the compound. But once out of sight, the Arab group stopped to blacken their faces with charcoal or put on hoods, and pull weapons out of their bags. Then they set off toward the Israeli quarters at 31 Connollystrasse, named, in an Olympic tradition, after U.S. Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly and his Czech-born wife, Olga, a discus thrower...
...much for Hawes' biggest competitor, the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs, which every year sells 40,000 boomerangs made by aborigines living on missions. Department spokesmen insist that only aboriginal boomerangs can make two complete circles in the air before dropping at the feet of the thrower. Senator Neville Bonner, an aborigine, has introduced in the Australian Parliament legislation that would in effect restrict boomerang making to his race. It has got nowhere-partly because Bonner had no success trying to demonstrate the superiority of the aboriginal product. At a press showing in Canberra, he scaled...