Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

The Weights and Weight- Throwers 389 that time, that a man who cannot throw at least 130 feet can no longer be considered a really first-string man at Mott Haven. Fol– lowing Hickock's throw of 135 feet 7i inches, in 1895, the winning throws at Mott Haven in– creased in distance until De Witt in 1902 set up an "intercollegiate" record of r 64 feet ro inches. Plaw of California, who won at Mott Haven in 1900 with a throw of 154 feet 4t inches, never equalled in the East the best of the throws which he made at home. His throw of 165 feet 1 inch stood as the collegiate record until 1904, when De Witt made a new collegiate record of 166 feet 5 inches.