STRONG MEN OF SPORT
THE big men in amateur -*■ athletics have been throwing the furniture about lately. In California before Easter, Eric Krenz, champion field games exponent of Stanford University, flung the discus out to 163 ft Bifin. a new world mark for the Grecian platter. About the same time, Emil Hirschfeld, the brawny German soldier, who was promoted last year for making a new shot putt record, to the rank of ser-geant-major, or something, sent the 161 b leaden globule crashing on to a heavy mat in an indoor stadium with a tremendous heave which nearly knocked the building ever. It measured out at 50ft 6in, and will be known as a “world’s indo'or record.’* Hirschfeld, himself, has done two or three feet better out-of-doors.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 636, 12 April 1929, Page 6
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