Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 57
much advantagefrom it. He whirled this about hishead with terrific force, and sent thehammer flying out into space in abeautiful arc. Beginning graduallyhe passed the successive marks of theGreenville men, until one superbthrow caused the man who ran outwith the tape-measure to look twiceand gasp… … 1 1898.] THE LAKERIM ATHLETIC CLUB. 573 Sawed-Off maintained that his hammer camewithin the rules, and was a proper improve-ment on the rigid handles previously used. Thejudges could find nothing in the laws againstit, but there was so much grumbling in Green-ville that Sawed-Off seized the hammer…
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