Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Track Athletics 163 feet 4 inches. This throw was made accord– ing to English rules, of course, in a nine-foot instead of seven-foot circle. In 1901 Flanagan again won the national championship in this country with a throw of 158 feet 10} inches, and with a throw some seven feet shorter the victory went to the big Irishman again the following year. In 1901, at Long Island City, Flanagan, throwing from the regulation seven-foot circle with unlimited run and no follow - the customary manner of throwing the hammer in this country- made his world's record. This throw was 1 7 I feet 9 inches - more than six feet better than Plaw's collegiate record, and any– where from fifteen to forty feet better than the average performances at college games. Although the average undergraduate could not be expected to compete successfully with such a man as Flanagan, yet there have come up of recent years several big men whose performances with the hammer put them in the same class with all but the most phenomenal of the more mature and seasoned veterans of the athletic clubs. Football men they have been almost invariably, "giant" guards and tackles - such men as De Witt, McCracken, Woodruff, Hickock, and Chadwick. T. R. Finlay of Harvard was the first man to throw the hammer more than 100 feet at Mott Haven. This was in 1891, and average ham– mer-throwing form has improved so much since