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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fresno, Calif., Shotputter Parry O'Brien who set a world record (60 ft. 5¼: in.) a fortnight ago in his specialty, switched to the discus at the West Coast Relays and beat World Record Holder Fortune Gordien with a toss of 184 ft. 1½ in. Only two men have tossed the discus farther: Gordien and Olympic Record Holder Sim Iness. ¶At Indianapolis, qualifying for the Memorial Day 500-miler, Jack McGrath set a new record for the four-lap (ten miles) sprint of 141.033 m.p.h. Old (1952) record: 139.034 m.p.h., set by the late Chet Miller...
Yale captured five events and tied for first in another, including Thomson's wins in the hammer throw, shot put, and discus. His toss of 180-feet-four-inches in the hammer broke the Heptagonal record of 178-5 1/4 set by the Crimson's Sam Felton in 1948, and the Soldiers Field record of 180 1/4 set by Felton in the same year...
Even though he didn't score against Harvard last week, Don Miller can win the javelin toss. He has already thrown the javolin 194 feet...
Director of the meet Asa Bushnell has announced that a Bulova photo-timer will be used for the meet. It will probably be the final judge in the 100 yard dash, a toss-up among Yale's Hank Thresher, last year's winner; Harvard's Pete Dow; Penn's Alan Kline and John Haines; and Cornell's Larry Lattomus, where the meet record of 9.7 may be broken...
...Elis, Heptagonal and IC4A indoor champions, were surprised in almost every event Saturday, but the javelin toss was the one which completely crushed them. Pete Morrison, Carl Goldman, and Ed Hurley all threw the spear further than any Eli, Morrison winning with a toss of 164-feet-one half inch, the longest. Yale was favored to take both first and second in the event...