Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rule in regard to throwing the hammer does not seem to us quite as it should be: "Letting go of the hammer in an attempt counts as a 'try'." When the "solid iron sphere, weighing sixteen pounds," strikes a spectator in the head, we think it extremely likely that that individual, if able to collect his ideas, would look upon it as a 'throw'. After several spectators in the immediate neighborhood had been carried off prostrated by these 'tries,' the judges might with reason decide that the contestant had done enough for that afternoon, as the spectators seemed not hurt...
...half-inch. Mr. B. won for the third consecutive time. Three-mile walk, T. H. Armstrong, 23 min. 12 1/2 sec. Best record, 21 min. 42 sec., by same man. Quarter-mile run, F. W. Brown, 54 3/8 sec. Best record, 52 1/5 sec., by W. C. Wilmer. Throwing hammer, W. B. Curtis, 80 ft. 2 in. Best record, 84 ft 5 3/4 in., by G. D. Parmley. 120-yards, H. E. Ficken, 17 1/4 sec. This is the best American time. Mile-run, T. H. Smith, 4 min. 51 1/4 sec. This is the best American time...
...minutes as reported in our last issue; tug of war, '81; throwing baseball, W. J. Hutchinson, '80, 343 ft. 8 in.; Senior quarter-mile, T. E. Mower, 1 min. 9 sec.; mile-walk, A. A. Dorsheimer, '78, 8 min. 36 sec.; throwing hammer, O. D. Thompson, '79, 71 ft. 3 in.; quarter-mile, H. Livingston, '79, 54 3/4 sec.; 120-yards hurdle, W. C. Camp, '80, 20 sec.; mile-run, J. Jewett...
...Throwing hammer. 6. Running broad jump...
When our crew went to Springfield last June, they were annoyed by an army of loafers, who, on account of a real or feigned connection with some newspaper, considered themselves privileged to hammer the shells, occupy the crew's quarters, and cross-examine each man on any point which might suggest itself to the reportorial mind. Now if there are any things which a crew must do, those things are to keep quiet and to keep their own council. What other means could have produced this desired effect we do not know, but it seems to be a settled point...