Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1909 — McGrath’s Great Throw. [ARTICLE]

McGrath’s Great Throw.

Matthew McGrath, the New York Athletic club’s world champion sixteen pound hammer thrower, attained a new world’s record of 177 feet 4 Inches in that event recently, but In view of the fact that the throw was made from a metal rimmed seven foot circle the mark was not accepted.