Best Practice/Exhibition Marks

[eldrick]

Re: Best Practice/Exhibition Marks

>In 1963 ( I believe) I saw Rink Babka knock a big dent in the chain link fences
>surrounding the track at USC... 215 feet, and the discus hit about 3 feet
>up.

I also saw him hit a post at about 205, 4 feet tall, and knock it loose
>from where it was firmly set into the ground

well,215ft & 3ft up,normally means with an expected throwing angle of 45 degrees that the extra distance until it hit the ground would be 3ft for a total of 218ft or

~ 66.44m

what was the WR at the time ?

[Jon]

Re: Best Practice/Exhibition Marks

>well,215ft & 3ft
>up,normally means with an expected throwing angle of 45 degrees that the extra
>distance until it hit the ground would be 3ft for a total of 218ft or

~
>66.44m

what was the WR at the time ?





The WR at the time was Oerter's 62.62m (205'4")

[Ranger]

Re: Best Practice/Exhibition Marks

Hey heres one that was reported a long time ago. I cant come up with any site to verify it though. Apparently a Pawnee Indian ran a mile that had been surveyed and measured in under four minutes. I think the time was aprox 3:57. The time was kept by U.S. Army officials. It was supposed to have occured in the late 1800s.

[Ranger]

Re: Best Practice/Exhibition Marks

And it seems like it was point to point.

[kuha]

Re: Best Practice/Exhibition Marks

We can quite safely file that in the "Myths and Legends" category.

[Class Clown]

Re: Best Practice/Exhibition Marks

>Hey heres one that was reported a long time ago. I cant come up with any site
>to verify it though. Apparently a Pawnee Indian ran a mile that had been
>surveyed and measured in under four minutes.>>

If they had taken more than four minutes to do the measuring surveying perhaps they might have come up with an accurate measurement.

[DentyCracker]

Re: Best Practice/Exhibition Marks

If true, almost certainly it was downhill