Ed Hamm
[3] Hamm and teammate Hubert Davis were the only two Lonoke competitors to enter a high school invitational meet at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville in 1925.[3] In his junior year (1924) Hamm set a world high school record of 24 feet 2+5⁄8 inches (7.382 m), which qualified him for the Olympic trials in Boston, Massachusetts.He failed to qualify for the Olympics, but the next year he went to Little Rock, regularly bringing Quigley two to five dollars until he repaid the money.[3] Hamm graduated from Georgia Tech in 1928, served as the school's track coach for a few years, and then spent the rest of his life in private business, much of it as an executive with Coca-Cola on the West Coast and in Alaska.His ashes were scattered over his beloved Clear Lake in Oregon's Willamette National Forest, where he had fished many times.
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