Sport: Record

In Manhattan, John Kuck, of Kansas Teachers' College, picked up an eight-pound ball of iron, whirled it round him on a wire, sent it careering 68 feet ⅝ inches —a new world's record. Untired, he tossed the 16-lb. shot 48 feet 3½ inches for another record.

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