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...Russian Yuri Stepanov (6 ft. 1 in.) holds the unofficial world high-jump record of 7 ft. 1 in.; American Jesse Owens (5 ft. 111n.) holds the running broad-jump record...
...Rosslyn Roy Range, another G.I., so lackadaisical in practice that he was almost shipped home, soared 26ft. 4⅛ in. for a games broad-jump record...
Died. Sol Butler, 59, onetime (1920) U.S. running broad-jump champion, one of the first Negroes to play professional football (on the Canton Bulldogs in the early '20s, with Jim Thorpe); of gunshot wounds; in Chicago. Butler, a bartender, was shot down by a customer he had thrown out for annoying a waitress...
...high-jumping Hipple twins shared first in their event. Crimson hurdler Charlie Durakis, however, narrowly missed winning the 120-yard high hurdles. He knocked over the last hurdle and lost, after holding a six-foot lead most of the way. Bill Geick, the other Crimson returnee, lost the 1949 broad-jump by an inch and three-quarters...
...blacksmith anvil with one hand, he would lift it straight out and up, and then with both hands toss it over his shoulder. At 44, and holding a brick in each hand, so the story goes, he completed three consecutive standing broad jumps totaling 36 feet. (U.S. standing broad-jump record, without bricks: 11 ft. 4⅞ in.) At 50, he could stand in an empty barrel and jump out without touching...