{"id":100035,"date":"2016-03-18T10:21:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T14:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=100035"},"modified":"2020-04-14T14:35:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T18:35:12","slug":"video-1935-ncaa-champ-anton-kishon-37-demonstrates-the-hammer-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/18\/video-1935-ncaa-champ-anton-kishon-37-demonstrates-the-hammer-throw\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: 1935 NCAA hammer champ Anton Kishon &#8217;37 shows his form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d take him on the team right now!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So said Al Fereshetian, men&#8217;s track and field coach, after seeing this circa-1935 film clip of famed Bates thrower Anton &#8220;Tony&#8221; Kishon &#8217;37 in action, probably on Garcelon Field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His form and technique are good,&#8221; Fereshetian says. &#8220;He&#8217;s relaxed and fluid. He&#8217;s not a big guy, which means he had to be better technically than others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kishon won the hammer throw at the 1935 NCAA outdoor championships, held at Berkeley\u2019s Edwards Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anton Kishon &#039;37 throws the hammer at Bates College c. 1935\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hip9LYCG3zY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s a difference in throwing style since the 1930s, says Fereshetian, it&#8217;s the footwork, which is key to the speed of the hammer.<\/p>\n<p>Today, a Fereshetian-coached thrower would, within each turn, try to spend more time with both feet in contact with the ground. &#8220;That would mean &#8216;catching&#8217; the ball earlier and rotating the right foot deeper into the turn before it leaves the ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019d take him on the team right now,&#8221; said Al Fereshetian, men&#8217;s track and field coach, after seeing this archival clip of the famed Bates thrower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":100036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[679,8783,10834],"class_list":["post-100035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-al-fereshetian","tag-track-and-field","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100035"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100038,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100035\/revisions\/100038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}