Word: javelin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other events the Crimson shows considerable strength. The dashes are strong with John Spivak, Dave Carter, and Thayer; Bud Lockett and Bill Lawrence are working at the pole vault; Don Trimble, the holder of the University record in the javelin, and Jerry Kanter, will put the shot; George Kumpel, Thayer, and Carter are strong in the broad jump; and John Cogan, Joe Leeming, Dick Welch, Joe Rosen, and Dick White give depth in the distance runs...
...Piccadilly one day, a giant (6 ft. 4 in.) California javelin thrower named Butch Likins decided to improve on the ineffective way a pushcart peddler hawked his peaches. Butch took over. His basso-profundo split the damp London air: "Ripe, juicy, California peaches! Buy your peaches here." When the fruit was sold Butch turned the money over to the peddler, said, "Now, that's the way they sell peaches in California...
Evening had fallen, and the floodlights were on, when Mathias cleared the pole vault (11 ft. 5¾ in.). After that, with an official marking the foul line for him with a flashlight, he threw the javelin. The few spectators who stood in the drizzling gloom could barely see the shaft as he hurled it 165 ft. 1 in. It was getting on towards midnight, and Mathias had only the 1,500-meter run left to do. If he could make it in anything like decent time, the championship was his. But could he? The boy from Tulare, Calif...
First athlete to make the boat was slim Martin Biles, an ex-Army pilot who hurled his steel-tipped javelin 225 ft. 9 in. (the world's record, held by a Finn: 258 ft. 2f in.). In the twilight, before 20,000 cheering fans, Biles climbed up to the top step of the victors' pyramid, flanked by the two runners-up on lower steps, and was ceremoniously presented as a member of the Olympic squad...
...tied for third with Penn State in the IC4A track and field meet last spring, but Coach Mikkola figures his team will be lucky to finish in the first ten tomorrow and Saturday at Randall's Island, New York. The reason is simple. Don Trimble, who won the IC4A javelin throw last spring, still can't throw without his sore elbow hurting, and he will definitely not compete at New York...