Word: throws
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Those who are going could still cause some fuss at Rutgers, where the Eastern championship meet will be held. Bakkensen has the best discus throw in the East this year, and has lost just once, when, Manhattan's erratic Bob Steigerwald got off a 175 ft. throw and beat him by two feet in the Penn relays. Bakkensen, a consistent 170-footer this spring, should win Saturday...
John Bakkensen paced a Harvard sweep of the discus with his 170 ft., 6 3/4 in. throw. John Michetts was a surprise second...
Captain Art Croasdale's long heaves the shot put and the hammer throw the track team to a 95-59 win over Army in the Stadium Saturday...
...they had a collective case of nikephobia. George Neville led off for Harvard with a walk, and Joe O'Donnell tried to move him to second with a sacrifice bunt. Knittel pounced on the ball and fired it to first. The second baseman, covering on the play, dropped the throw and O'Donnell was safe...
...m.p.h. Gibson has come a long way since the day a Cardinal official confided: "Bob could throw a ball through the side of a barn, if he could only hit the barn." Now and then, of course, he still uncorks a wild one: two years ago, a stray Gibson fastball broke the shoulder of San Francisco's Jim Ray Hart, and in 56 innings this season, Bob has walked 26 men. But now it's the catchers who have to look out. The speed of his "hummer" is estimated at well over 90 m.p.h. Sighs the Cards...