Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman races this fall. Ninety-two has sent a number of unusually promising men on to the track both in short and long-distance running; yet she has not filled in our weak places as might have been hoped. Jumping, pole-vaulting, putting the shot and throwing the hammer are fine openings for new men. We were more or less weak in most of these events last year; we are still weaker this. The number of hurdle racers, too, is smaller than it should be. There is a good deal of knack in this sort of racing, and speed...
William L. Condon, of the New York Athletic Club, beat the world's record (his own) throwing a 16-pound hammer with one hand at Elkton, Md., recently. His distance was 119ft., 9in., beating his previous record...
...brother of Coax, the great hammer thrower, is playing in the rush line of the Phillips Academy eleven...
...pole vault at 8 ft. 8 in., Ryder second. Williams won the 120-yards hurdle race in 18 3-5s., Griswold second. Lentilhon lost this by falling on the ninth hurdle. Robinson won the broad jump at 20 ft. 8 in., Shearman second. Hunt won in throwing the hammer with Bayard second. Griswold won the mile race in 5m. 14s., with Hinckley second. The first prize was awarded to Robinson, who scored 22 points. The second to Hunt, with 15, and the third to Shearman, with 14. Williams failed to qualify in only one event, and scored 10 points...
...team made up of graduates. Exercises were held in the new chapel at 11.30, at which Samuel Eliot, LL.D., of Boston, delivered the address. In the afternoon, the second field meeting was held, in which three school records were broken. The events and winners were: Throwing the hammer, won by J. M. Fiske. Distance 78 ft. 10 in.; second, J. McFerridy, 73 ft. 10 in.; third, J. S. Black, 72 feet 11 1-2 inches-all breaking the record. Senior half-mile run for the Gardiner challenge cup, won by M. K. Quordon; time 2.14 4-5. Senior running high...