Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rules do not allow for a toss that hits anything in flight. So the officials moved Gary into a bigger gym. First, he banged the ceiling again. Then, paying a little more heed to trajectory, Gary let loose a heave that was clearly headed for the back wall, 65 ft. away, when it crashed into a basketball backboard 54 ft. out, at a spot 12 ft. off the floor...
...they moved Gary into a still bigger gym. By this time, there was fretful muttering that first place might have to go to Mike Berkowitz, 17, whose toss of only 53 ft. 10¼ in. had hit nothing but the floor. But the weary Bronx boy-whale finally got off a freeflight toss that went 60 ft. 7½ in. to win his just reward. This spring he will have all outdoors for room in his assault on the national scholastic record of 69 ft. 3 in., held by Southern California's Dallas Long...
...embarrassed by his 6-ft. height that he adopted the driving, set-shooting style of his hip-high teammates. Even after New York University and twelve years with the Nats, Schayes is still a big man playing a small man's game. If left alone, he will toss an old-fashioned two-handed set that soars so high it is dubbed "the rainmaker"; if crowded, he will knock anyone into the seats who gets in his way as he drives for the layup. His trademark: a right fist brandished in the air after a basket...
Died. Charles Manuel ("Daddy") Grace, 78, Portuguese-born Negro evangelist who whipped the adoring members of his House of Prayer for All People to a frenzy by a flow of incomprehensible oratory, a toss of his richly curled tresses, a wave of his 5-in.-long fingernails painted red, white and blue; collected enough money by the ritual of sitting in the "money well" or forming the "Sweet Daddy Grace Line" to afford a coffee plantation in Brazil, a chicken farm in Cuba, a cosmetic outfit that sells Daddy Grace Cold Cream ; exuded so much love of a sort that...
Ever-improving Steve Cohen turned in his best toss ever in the shot put, a 51 ft., 10 in. heave. A year ago, Cohen was mired at the 46-ft. mark, and by the end of the 1959 spring season he still had difficulty in hitting 50 ft. consistently. His rapid rise this season, combined with Sarge Nichols's emergence, seems likely to give the varsity unprecedented shot put strength...