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Lionette was the second highest scorer on last season's squad. His specialties are a hook shot that is almost impossible to stop on good nights and a fancy two-hand overhead set shot that he uses from close...
Weight-lifting contests usually involve lifting a bar bell overhead by three methods: the two-hand snatch, the two-hand clean and jerk, the two-hand military press.* Atlas' share of this year's honors went to York's Emerick Ishikawa, a 23-year-old Japanese-American in the 123-lb. class. At the A.A.U. championships in Chattanooga, Tenn. he added 19¼ Ib. to the snatch record by lifting 193 Ib. He cleaned and jerked a record...
Weight lifting is another Russian forte: Soviet athletes claim 25 world's records.* Last week Lieut. Gene Novak set a new one with a two-hand lift...
...weight-lifting championships are decided in eight divisions, from 112 Ib. to heavyweight. Champions are determined by their ability in three events: the two-hand military press, the two-hand snatch and the two-hand clean & jerk-in each of which a bar bell is picked off the floor with both hands and raised overhead by different procedures. The total poundage heaved in the three lifts constitutes a contestant's score-unless a lift is nullified because of bad form...
...meeting was opened by the two-hand fence vault which was contested by A. H. Green, '92, D. G. Tenney, Yale, and G. W. Pearson, L. S. The first to drop out was Tenney, who touched the boards at 6 feet 3 1-8 inches. Pearson did not miss until the bar was raised to 7 feet 7-8 inches. Green cleared this on his second trial, but was unable to vault higher; He was therefore awareded the first prize and Pearson the second...