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...summer, Boston practiced with a sponge dangling from a crossbar, 9 ft. above the broad-jump pit. The idea was to aim for it with his head-on the theory that the higher he jumped the farther he would go-and last week he nearly jumped out of sight. In the final U.S. Olympic trials at Los Angeles, Boston bounded 27 ft. 101 in. on his very first try-a full 7 in. past the world mark held by Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan. But the wind gauge registered 5 m.p.h. (maximum allowable: 4.4 m.p.h.), and the new record...
...broad-jump, the 60-yard dash, and the 60-yard high hurdles, Awori is a scoring threat. Running on an injured leg in last year's meet, the Ugandan captured first in the hurdles and second in the sprint, to score 9 of his team's 14 points...
Crusader sophomore Chris Shea should give Holy Cross a place in the sprint. Both Shea and Crusader captain Dick Malberger will push Chris Ohiri in the broad-jump, but the Nigerian is virtually unbeatable in dual competition...
...Broad Jump. Nobody will be pushing versatile Ralph Boston very hard, but nobody has to. Just two weeks ago, the Tennessee State senior, competing in the high hurdles, the low hurdles, the high jump, the hop, step and jump, as well as the broad jump, ran up his school's entire total of 47 points at the N.A.I.A. championships, was shaded by only 2 points by Texas Southern's title-winning track team. Boston, who generally has to wait until Tennessee State's girls (most notably Olympic Triple Gold Medal Winner Wilma Rudolph) finish training before...
...Army Lieut. Irvin Roberson, 24, onetime star Cornell halfback, jumped 25 ft. 9½ in. to break Jesse Owens' 25-year-old indoor broad-jump record by half an inch...