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With new weight thrower Art Doten sitting out for the evening, the Crimson had managed to take all nine points in the 35 lb. weight event. Olney Croasdale's 49 ft., 10 in. test was good for first. Neal Cartin and Joe Jurek added second and third place points to round out the first event of the meet...
...Hall is echoing to 50 works entirely new to Prom audiences−some of them classical, some contemporary, but all demonstrating what Guardian Critic Neville Cardus calls "the wild, bold and enterprising throw of Mr. Clock's net." As Cardus and his fellow critics are happily aware, Net Thrower Clock−of the British Broadcasting Corp.−is, at 54, the most influential man dispensing music in Britain...
...jump record with a prodi gious leap of 27 ft. 3 in., and Vladimir Trusenev, who last month set a new discus record of 202 ft. 2½ in. But the U.S.'s Boston will be tough to beat at home. And so will the top U.S. discus thrower, Al Oerter, who was the first man to hurl the discus 200 ft.; at the A.A.U. championships, Oerter got off the best series ever managed by one man in one meet, fell short of Trusenev's record by just ½ in. As Russian Coach Gavril Korobkov said: "It would...
...days after announcing that an unheralded Soviet discus thrower had set a new world record of 202 ft. 2| in., Moscow trumpeted still more exultant news: Broad Jumper Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, 24, who placed third in the 1960 Olympics, had sailed 27 ft. 3 in. during a meet in Armenia, thus smashing the 27-ft. 1¼-in. world record set by U.S. Olympic Champion Ralph Boston in last year's U.S.Soviet track meet in Moscow. Preparing for the fourth U.S.-Soviet track meet in Palo Alto, Calif, next month the Russians had two other new records to announce...
...varsity's injury list is currently beyond belief. Besides Hamlin, it includes hurdler Jack Spitzberg (pulled muscle), 440 man Don Kirkland (mysterious illness), Meehan (dysentery), sprinter Scott Johnson (stress fracture), hammer thrower Art Doten (broken leg), and sprinter Russ Chesney (pulled muscle...