Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Throwing the hammer, won by Princeton; distance...
...Parmly took the first prize in throwing the hammer at the New York Athletic games...
...programme will be as follows, unless circumstances demand a change; 1. 100 yards, trial-heats. 2. Throwing the hammer. 3. One-mile run. 4. 100 yards, second trial-heats. 5. Seven-mile walk (during which will take place running high jump, putting the shot, and running broad jump in the order named). 6. 100 yards, final heat. 7. 440 yards, trial-heats. 8. One-mile walk. 9. 220 yards, trial-heats. 10. Tug of war, trial heats. 11. 120 yards hurdle-race, trial heats. 12. 440 yards, final heat. 13. Three-mile walk (during which will take place pole leaping...
...boat soon stops at a place called Lille-hammer. I understand from my guide-book that I must hire a horse and carriole here for Drontheim. Do not know what a carriole is, but step out on the wharf and call for one loudly. A ragged urchin soon drives up in a curious-looking low gig, with long and slender shafts, inserted between which is a wonderful horse. Wonderful, because, although apparently dead, he is yet really alive. Boy talks volubly in a gibberish quite unintelligible, but as I catch the word "carriole," I conclude that it must...
...addition to the Cricket Matches and Boat Races, the English Universities have trials of skill in running, jumping, throwing the hammer, etc., which have been very successful and have attracted a good deal of attention...